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Contents:

• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN
• ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
• THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN
• THE BT GAY VILLAG IN THE UNED KGDOM FOR FABULO QUEER FUN! ??
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• GAY BRA GLOSSARY

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. "The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.

Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. "Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament. Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said.

“From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

The send IRS whistleblower allegg that Hunter Bin received special treatment om the Department of Jtice (DoJ) over his tax affairs is a Democrat, has Ziegler told the Hoe of Reprentativ Oversight Commtee on Wednday he was a “gay Democrat married to a man” joed Gary Shapley, the origal whistleblower, appearg ont of a televised mtee hearg which they tailed their allegatns that the vtigatn to Hunter Bin was imped by the DoJ. A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

6 was circulated, the ernment said the rmatn would provi evince about equali to tackle discrimatn and improve cisns ma about health re, tn, employment, hog and social servic for lbian, gay and bisexual people. 7%) of people intifyg as "LGB+", - lbian, gay, bisexual or any non-heterosexual sexual of the other lol thori the top 10 were Wal, Cardiff was the lol thory wh the biggt LGB+ populatn (5. However, prev surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, and recent years there has been a small gradual cle the number of people intifyg as exclively straight.

Ms Macdonald said she had been ma to feel "shame" the 40 years Sunak ma the statement Parliament after a report to service personnel's treatment remend they be given a fancial reward and the PM should publicly lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 and Ms Macdonald was one of thoands of veterans thought to be ptn, Ms Macdonald joed at 19 and was a lance rporal the Women's Royal Army CorpsAfter hearg the statement, Ms Macdonald told BBC Rad Shropshire she had "lots of different emotns" and add: "It's such a historic day and 42 years on I never, ever dreamed that this would happen. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsItaly has begun removg the nam of gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit, as part of the right-wg ernment’s crackdown on same-sex move after populist prime mister Grgia Meloni’s aln announced March that state agenci should no longer register the children of same-sex upl, a move that sparked protts Milan.

Dpe Ms Meloni parg herself to Brish Conservativ and nyg she is homophobic, her party rose to power wh tough rhetoric agast same-sex parentg and support for tradnal fai and moral valu. ”Her aln partner, Matteo Salvi, of the far-right League party, had prevly lled gay parents “unnatural” while the ernment opposed a Bssels plan for a parenthood certifite that would be valid across the EU.

PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN

Pick up a queer novel om Bra’s olst book store, or dive to a LGBTQIA+ film ftival - whether you’re there for the party, or wantg a snippet of queer culture, we’ve got you over 50 years of celebratg gay pri, om the first para London 1972, ’s clear Bra is a natn shg a light on love, clivy and eedom.

“It was a very opprsive climate right up to and cludg the Margaret Thatcher years, ” says polil scientist David Raysi, the thor of On the Frge: Gays and Lbians Polics. Even then, was followed by dranian measur to prevent gay relatnships, cludg the Crimal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which ma “gross cency” between men—a purposely vague term—a crimal act. The panic over homosexualy ntued after World War II, wr historian Michael Bloch Closet Queens: Some 20th Century Brish Policians: “A fiercely homophobic Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, aid by an equally puranil Director of Public Prosecutns, Sir Theobold Matthew, was termed to ‘rid England of this plague.

“Labour as a whole was very unfortable associatg self wh what ntued to terpret as a bourgeois and dangero issue, ” wr historian Lucy Robson Gay Men and the Left Post-War Bra.

ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT

Regardls of how historilly accurate the earl’s reactn to his servant’s behavr was, is te that gay experimentatn flourished upper-class, sex-segregated is like boardg school, the ary, and the clergy. When the Brish parliament passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 – which stated that: “a homosexual act private shall not be an offence provid that the parti nsent thereto and have attaed the age of 21 years” – sought to legimate gay inty Bra, at least partially.

However, lbians do feature throughout the urse of this 50-year history and should be clud wh the bat around creased visibily – even if, when pared wh films about gay male experience, they are unrreprented. As Andy Medhurst explas his entertag and thoughtful search for “nebulo nanci” Brish films ma between the 1940s and 1960s, the aim of the queer spectator was to pick up on visual and verbal clu which would give away a character’s or actor’s “gayns”.

THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN

It was not until the 1950s and the high-profile trials volvg Lord Montagu, Michael Pt-Rivers, and Peter Wilblood for homosexualy that the issue received substantial social attentn. On the small screen, South, based on the play by Julien Green and shown as part of ITV’s Play of the Week seri 1959, is the earlit survivg Brish gay televisn drama. As well as suatg s gay polics wh a thriller narrative signed to appeal to a wir dience, is noteworthy for beg one of the first Brish films to st a well-known actor a gay tle role.

Extra-textual elements about Bogar’s own private life as a gay man lend the film and his performance addnal meang and an thenticy which flects his performanc later films such as Joseph Losey’s The Servant (1963) and Darlg (1965). Regardls of whether or not they were explicly scribed as beg gay, the tragic figur prented the plight of gay men who were sperately searchg for somewhere to “be themselv”.

Canadian-Amerin soclogist Ervg Goffman, wrg 1968 (a year after the Sexual Offenc Act was passed England and Wal), clus homosexualy as a social stigma – that is, a marker which disqualifi an dividual om full social acceptance. For the gay man, the uld range om (self-evint) sexual relatns wh someone of the same sex to ls obv symbols which have veloped society and culture over time – for example drag queens, effemate behavur and particular ways of drsg or actg. Stairse (Stanley Donen, 1969), featurg Richard Burton and Rex Harrison as a uple of “flamg queen” hairdrsers, drew the cril ire of Roger Ebert (and, one imag, some of the gay muny) for their portrayal of Harry and Charlie as a parodic “sishow attractn”.

THE BT GAY VILLAG IN THE UNED KGDOM FOR FABULO QUEER FUN! ??

Whether one is Lookg for Langston (1989) – the tle of Julien’s 1989 film about gay black Amerin poet Langston Hugh – or Cght Lookg (1991) – Constante Giannaris’ 1991 film about risque fantasi – the sire to see and be seen has been ccial the advancement of gay rights.

Peck’s directn and Pl Hallam’s wrg giv the film an thenticy of gay experience 1970s London and foc on the importance of “lookg” – lookg a certa way or lookg for your next hook-up. Nighthawks offers a glimpse to one man’s negotiatn of inty and would go on to fluence future Brish gay filmmakers such as Andrew Haigh and his films Greek Pete (2009) and Weekend (2011). Meanwhile, Terence Davi would tackle elements of his own homosexual awakeng wh a reprsive Catholic upbrgg and a dysfunctnal fay un his films The Terence Davi Trilogy (1983), Distant Voic, Still Liv (1988) and The Long Day Clos (1992).

Dyer propos that the signifince of the “look” of the films, and perhaps why so much vigoratg queer film-makg was beg done penntly and shown unrground venu (as well as for mercial reasons), was a reflectn of the “surface” homosexuals had to manage orr to pass for heterosexual. Caravagg (1986), Edward II (1991) and Wtgenste (1993) n be terpreted as a “queerg” of history, to emphasise the sexualy of their rpective central figur orr to rve a space for gay visibily wh the largely heterosexual (not to mentn, whe and male) amy.

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

Unrstandably, Brish film has had a long held fascatn for the mp celebry of Osr Wil (which ntued wh Stephen Fry’s Wil [1997]), but other, ls ubiquo, gay liv are documented. Playwright Joe Orton (very much the theatril scendant of Wil’s risqué high society satire) is memorably portrayed by Gary Oldman Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Ian McKellen plays Frankenste director Jam Whale Gods and Monsters (1998) and, The Imatn Game (2014), Benedict Cumberbatch’s Alan Turg rac to crack the enigma durg World War II as he wrtl wh his homosexualy.

GAY BRA GLOSSARY

In films such as The Bt Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and Philomena (2013), queers occupy sub-plots, but Pri (2014) puts s subject matter (equal rights for lbians, gay men and Welsh mers 1984’s strik) ont and centre. Disney’s live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast (2016) featured a (very) brief scene of a supportg male character dancg wh another man, and the crew of horror sequel Alien: Covenant (2017) clud a gay uple – and, later, Michael Fassbenr’s cyb lockg lips wh “himself”). This rapidly lead to the formatn of gay villag, an LGBTQ-iendly oasis an otherwise hostile cyspe which ntaed gay-oriented tablishments, such as gay bars and pubs, nightclubs, bathho, rtrants, boutiqu and bookstor.

Sce the turn of the 21st century, LGBT rights have creasgly strengthened the Uned Kgdom, and the need for gay villag has waned – but some still rema credibly popular wh high ncentratns of gay rints and bs. Gentrifitn, changg nightlife trends and an creasgly acceptg society mean many have disappeared but there are still several different gay villag the UK to choose om when you are travelg – here are some of our favor we thk you should try out!