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LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- ’s also about the artists who weren’t aaid to be themselv eras when dog so often had real risks attached.

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AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY

While there have, undoubtedly, been signifint ton LGBT history earlier s, I believe the Eighti was a particularly important perd. That saw a major shift towards the emergence of a global gay culture. The gay genie me right out of s ltle pk bottle and to the streets (and the * gay culture 80s *

The gay genie me right out of s ltle pk bottle and to the streets (and the media…and polics…and the arts…). For example, the US, the Court of Appeal led that there was no ‘fundamental right’ to be gay. In the UK, the Thatcher ernment created Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act, makg illegal for lol thori to support anythg that might promote homosexual relatnships as a viable alternative to heterosexual ‘fay life’.

In 1986 Pope John Pl II labelled “evil” and orred the Church to whdraw all support om gay Catholic anisatns.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

And even the US Army, who had clared homosexualy to be “patible wh ary service” 1982, were forced to adm 1989 that gay recs were “jt as good or better” than heterosexuals.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY CULTURE 80S

A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements.

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