It was the trial that had everythg: aristocrats, airmen, entrapment and immuny. But one gay man the dock refed to go quietly. Adam Mars-Jon on how the urage of Peter Wilblood paved the way to a more tolerant Bra
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THE WILBLOOD SNDAL: THE TRIAL THAT ROCKED 1950S BRA – AND CHANGED GAY RIGHTS
) The tentn may have been to unrle that social privilege offered no protectn, or to rerce the myth that homosexualy is herently an aristocratic perversn or bars … Daniel Mays as Wilblood Agast the Law, the BBC’s adaptatn of the mpaigner’s memoir.
Photograph: Dean Rogers/BBCWilblood his book propos that the prosecutn of proment homosexuals was part of an agenda, strongly urged by the Uned Stat, to weed such people out om important ernment jobs.