The 1967 Sexual Offenc Act was a game-changer for gay men. Our wrers reflect on what changed, and what didn’t
Contents:
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
- 'IT’S BEE THE "TWILIGHT ZONE" UP HERE': RISE ANTI-GAY ATTACKS UNSETTLE U.K. ADVOT
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
‘Tom Holland gay sex ma me google The Crowd Room real quick, ’ another trigued viewer shared.
‘Oh no I got my parents to The Crowd Room and I’ve jt learned that one of my theori is rrect and we will ed be seeg Tom Holland a gay sex scene. Homophobia was rife. Gay!
What is gay? What else is gay? The age of nsent for gay men was 21, which meant the law was beg broken on a regular basis.
'IT’S BEE THE "TWILIGHT ZONE" UP HERE': RISE ANTI-GAY ATTACKS UNSETTLE U.K. ADVOT
Sectn 28, wh which the Thatcher ernment outlawed the promotn of homosexualy schools, was jt around the rner.
Every time he told me this story, my ey would fill wh ’s a monly held misnceptn that the 1967 act legalised male homosexualy. In the years that followed, gay sexualy was policed more aggrsively than before and the number of men arrted for breachg those ndns actually rose nsirably.
As rearch nducted by Peter Tatchell recently found, 1966 some 420 men were nvicted of the gay crime of gross cency. Policg the 80s and early 90s was vilently homophobic, whipped up by hysteria around Aids and gay-bag newspapers such as the Sun, Daily Mail and News of the World. Manchter’s police chief, Jam Anrton, penned a tabloid lumn about Aids which he scribed gay men as “swirlg a human csp of their own makg”.