Gay rights movement | Defn & History | Branni

Contents:

• A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
• KEY DAT FOR LBIAN, GAY, BI AND TRANS EQUALY
• GAY RIGHTS 50 YEARS ON: 10 WAYS WHICH THE UK HAS CHANGED
• STONEWALL RTS: 50 YEARS ON OM THE RTS THAT CHANGED GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
• LONDON PRI PARA: HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

The act, which crimalised homosexual sex acts between nsentg men over the age of 21, opened the door to a slew of legal and social chang which would transform the way Brish society viewed same-sex relatnships over the next 50 are some of the key dat the history of gay rights the UK:1533: The Buggery Act, the first ever law to specifilly outlaw anal sex, was signed to English law. 1957: The Wolfenn mtee published s report, based on three years of ttimony om police, psychiatrists and gay men but one of the mtee's 15 members, drawn om the world of polics, law, medice and amia, agreed that homosexual acts between nsentg men over the age of legal majory - 21 at the time - should not be a matter for the law. 1988: Then-Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher troduced an amendment to the Lol Government Act 1988 banng state schools om teachg or promotg the "acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship" notor "Sectn 28" ed wispread outrage and as the talyst for a massive surge gay activism, cludg the formatn of LGBT rights group Stonewall UK.

KEY DAT FOR LBIAN, GAY, BI AND TRANS EQUALY

Although female homosexualy was never directly targeted by any legislatn, was however discsed parliament for the first time 1921 wh the aim to troduce discrimatory legislatn (to bee the Crimal Law Amendment Bill 1921).

The Liberal Party (now the Liberal Democrats) beme the first UK polil party to support LGBT rights, passg a motn at nference to support ‘full equaly for homosexuals’, cludg equalisg the age of nsent. The Gay Christian Movement is found at a public meetg at the Sir John Cass School the Cy of London (the anisatn's name later changed to the Lbian and Gay Christian Movement and then One Body One Fah 2017). The Act stat that a lol thory "shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy" or "promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship".

The ernment announc that blood donatn l for gay and bisexual men will be relaxed further, focg on dividual behavurs rather than a blanket ban on any men who have had sex wh men the past three months. Bona = good, dolly = pretty, eke (ef) = face, lalli = legs, naff = bbish/poor, nanty = no/nothg, ogle = look/eye, omi = man, omipalone = gay man, palone = woman, riah = hair, varda = seeRound the Horne, Sunday 7 March 1965, 14.

GAY RIGHTS 50 YEARS ON: 10 WAYS WHICH THE UK HAS CHANGED

Negative portrayals of the LGBT+ muny on televisn are wispread at this time, but radil for s day, toward the end of this episo of Steptoe and Son a gay police officer is troduced, whout all the ual stereotyped characterisatns.

Meanwhile science strand Horizon broadsts Killer the Village, the first full-length -pth UK documentary on the health crisis emergg New York’s gay village known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS. Most LGBT+ performers om Freddie Mercury to Gee Michael keep their sexualy quiet as the mic dtry mands, but two new bands wh out-gay members and lyrics wh gay them break nventn wh their h but sgl Frankie Go to Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ and Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’. Approval fell the 1980s when the Aids crisis and the troductn of sectn 28 - a law prohibg the promotn or teachg of homosexualy schools - uld have swayed public opn acrdg to NatCen, the thk tank which ns the a steady and rapid rise om the early 1990s reflects a wir trend of social liberalisatn, somethg also seen changg attus to pre-maral sex.

Approval of pre-maral sex grew ially among the young - as they got olr they retaed that belief, and soon both old and young were more liberal on the same-sex relatnships the shift attu has been quicker - not only did young people wh liberal views get olr, but olr people changed their mds, might part be bee chang the law, such as the legalisatn of civil partnerships and then gay marriage, have a powerful fluence on people's views, a NatCen spokman suggts. 1967 - Sex between two men over 21 and " private" is crimalised1980 - Decrimalisatn Stland1982 - Decrimalisatn Northern Ireland1994 - The age of nsent for two male partners is lowered to 182000 - The ban on gay and bisexual people servg the armed forc is lifted; the age of nsent is equalised for same- and oppose-sex partners at 162002 - Same-sex upl are given equal rights when to adoptn2003 - Gross cency is removed as an offence2004 - A law allowg civil partnerships is passed2007 - Discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn is banned2010 - Genr reassignment is add as a protected characteristic equaly legislatn2014 - Gay marriage be legal England, Wal and Stland3. Government has attempted to redrs this legacyGiven this legacy of crimalisatn, the ernment troduced a scheme October 2012 allowg those prosecuted unr funct gay-sex-related laws, to have their nvictns removed om police and urt Home Office timat that there were about 50, 000 such offenc rerd on the system om the 1950s until of the 50, 000, only an timated 16, 000 are for people who are still livg and so able to all of the 16, 000 offenc are eligible to be "disregard".

STONEWALL RTS: 50 YEARS ON OM THE RTS THAT CHANGED GAY RIGHTS HISTORY

Rerdg of homophobic hate crim has risenA steep rise homophobic hate crim has been rerd over the past five years, but this is thought to be large part down to an crease people reportg cints rather than a genue rise crime. The Natnal Police Chiefs Council's lead on homophobic crim, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Haton, says: "Tradnally, homophobic hate crime has been signifintly unr-reported and we do not believe that current statistics accurately reflect actual levels of abe. It's strikg that people aged 16-24 are more than five tim more likely than those aged over 65 to intify as gay, lbian or Office for Natnal Statistics keeps rerds of people who intify themselv as gay, lbian or bisexual - 1.

This is likely to unrtimate the real numbers as the survey don't pture sexual attractn or 2005 the ernment tried to timate the size of the lbian, gay and bisexual populatn and me up wh a larger number - 5-7% of the populatn.

LONDON PRI PARA: HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

Gay people say they feel ls happy than their straight peersPeople who intify as gay, lbian and bisexual report lower levels of well-beg than heterosexuals the ONS looks at happs, life satisfactn, and the extent to which people feel their life is worthwhile. Gay and lbian people report higher levels of anxiety than straight people, but bisexual people are even more likely to suffer om the lbian, gay and bisexual people are also more likely to suffer om suicidal thoughts than their straight iends, acrdg to a 2014 survey by LGBT support chary Metro. Same-sex upl have gaed equal marriage rightsCivil partnerships were legalised 2004 throughout the Uned Kgdom, wh the first ceremoni takg place at the end of the followg 140, 000 people entered to civil partnerships between 2005 and 2015, the last year for which figur are the UK, gay and lbian upl were granted many of the same rights as married heterosexuals, albe wh a few differenc around issu like private-sector meant that upl uld no longer be kept out of hospal rooms when their partner was sick, they would no longer lose their home or bs bee of tax laws, and they had parental rights over marriage was legalised a later, wh the first ceremoni takg place England, Wal and Stland 2014.

Countri where gay marriage is legal2010 Iceland, Portugal, Argenta2013 Uguay, New Zealand, France, Brazil2014 UK (excludg Northern Ireland)2015 Luxembourg, Ireland, Mexi, USAA further 28 untri guarantee some civil-partnership regnn acrdg to ILGA. 1954 - The Wolfenn Commtee was set up on 24 Augt 1954 to nsir UK laws relatg to "homosexual offenc"; the Report of the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn, (better known as the Wolfenn report), was published on 3 September 1957. It remend that "homosexual behavur between nsentg adults private should no longer be a crimal offence", fdg that "homosexualy nnot legimately be regard as a disease, bee many s is the only symptom and is patible wh full mental health other rpects”.

A sectn of the Act (known as the Alan Turg Law) officially gave posthumo pardons to the thoands of homosexual men om England and Wal who had been nvicted unr prev laws and gave those still livg, the possibily to apply to have their nvictn erased. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The Stonewall rts changed attus to gay rights around the worldIt's the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, which helped spark the fight for gay rights around the the 1960s, beg gay was classified as a mental illns the US. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many the Stonewall rts 1969 were a landmark event history, which helped to fight homophobia and mpaign for equal happened?

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The Stonewall Inn was the se of prottg and rts June 1969On 28 June 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn - a bar the gay area of New York, was the send time that week the police had raid .

They threw 200 people out onto the streets and beat some gay muny were angry about the way they were beg treated by the police, so they chose to fight source, NY Daily News Archive / GettyImage ptn, Police raid the Stonewall Inn and phed people out to the streetThis event triggered a week of protts and rtg by people om the gay muny, who were fed up of beg harassed by the of the rts spread around the world, and this spired others to jo protts and rights groups to fight for equaly. But now, more than a ln celebrate the event every year chary Stonewall was found the UK 1989, named after the bar which sparked the famo works to fight equaly and homophobia, and mpaigned to overturn the Sectn 28 law, which prevented teachers om talkg about gay relatnships at school the beme illegal to enurage homophobic hatred ptn, WATCH: Fd out more about the rabow flag - a symbol of gay pri all over the worldIn 2017, Peter Tatchell - a gay rights mpaigner - told Newsround: "We have ma fantastic progrs. 1981 The European Court of Human Rights Dudgeon v Uned Kgdom strik down Northern Ireland's crimalisatn of homosexual acts between nsentg adults, leadg to Northern Ireland crimalisg homosexual sex the followg year.