The Queen has turned her back on the gay muny | Peter Tatchell | The Guardian

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• QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
• THE QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY
• QUEEN ELIZABETH II: MONARCH RED ABOUT GAY RIGHTS, SAYS FORMER MAYOR
• THE QUEEN TAK A STAND FOR WOMEN, AND MAYBE GAY RIGHTS, TOO
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH

QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED

By the time she died, the landspe for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights looked dramatilly different — at least the Uned Kgdom — part bee she approved of many pro-LGBTQ measur, such as same-sex marriage.

” The Brish ernment was g the 1885 Crimal Law Amendment Act — which was ed to send playwright and poet Osr Wil to prison 1895 — to arrt and prosecute queer people, particularly men, for same-sex sexual years of gay activism, Parliament passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967, which partially crimalized same-sex sexual relatns.

Nearly 40 years later, passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 2003, which repealed the 1885 measure and crimalized gay sex pletely. By the same token, he add, she shouldn’t be held rponsible for the passage of Sectn 28, a 1988 law that she gave her assent to that barred schools om “promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship. ”Surdy also poted to some recent reportg that the queen has exprsed support for LGBTQ people behd closed Elizabeth II durg a vis to HMS Queen Elizabeth at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, ahead of the ship's main ployment, on May 22, Parsons / PA/AP fileCarl At-Behan, the first openly gay lord mayor of Manchter, met the monarch 2021, he told the BBC after her ath.

THE QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY

He said the queen requted an LGBTQ choir to perform at an event to mark the 600th anniversary of the royal charter to tablish Manchter was discharged om the Royal Air Force 1997 bee he was gay, and he told the BBC that he and the queen talked about how far the untry had e. “I feel she genuely red about our muny, ” he told the people have also poted to her 2013 pardon of Alan Turg, a World War II breaker often referred to as the “father of puter science” who was nvicted of “homosexual offens” unr the 1885 law.

Over the seven s she reigned, she oversaw a breadth of polil and cultural progrs for LGBTQ+ Brons that few other lers n claim to match, om the legalizatn of homosexualy to same-sex marriage, the passage of anti-discrimatn laws, and is ctomary for the monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II was mted to “polil ntraly, ” and avoid much public ment on LGBTQ+ rights over her reer (a fact bemoaned by many mentators). However, others poted out that the charter did not explicly state a mment to LGBTQ+ equaly, nor even the words “gay” or “lbian, ” as the Advote reported at the time.

Addnally, the Brish empire is rponsible for exportg laws that crimalize homosexualy to s dozens of loni, many of which still rema effect to this day. ” This marked the first time that the Queen has mentned LGBTQ+ rights sce 2003, when she vowed to support legislatn regardg same-sex partnerships, acrdg to Pk of Homophobia at Buckgham PalaceAlso 2017, the Daily Mail claimed that the Queen had privately opposed legislatn regardg same-sex marriage bee of her Christian fah.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II: MONARCH RED ABOUT GAY RIGHTS, SAYS FORMER MAYOR

” But 2018, the outlet also reported that the queen’s first openly gay senr footman, Ollie Roberts, rigned after a seri of “huiatg motns. ” The rignatn was supposedly rponse to prs verage that merely noted that Roberts was gay, whout him havg spoken to the media at the law is rarely enforced, reports claim that s existence creat a hostile climate for the untry’s LGBTQ+ populatn.

There was much fanfare 2018 when Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a of the queen, me out as gay and revealed he was due to marry his partner Jam Coyle.

THE QUEEN TAK A STAND FOR WOMEN, AND MAYBE GAY RIGHTS, TOO

There was also the scene  The Crown where Queen Elizabeth II, portrayed by Olivia Colman, referred to a gay man as a “iend of Dorothy”. In 2019, William said he would be supportive of any of his children if they were to e out as gay, while Prce Harry has shown his support for Mermaids, a trans youth chary.

Private homosexual acts between men over the age of 21 were not crimalized England and Wal until 1967, 15 years after Elizabeth ascend to the throne. The same law was not changed Stland until 1980, and Northern Ireland until last year, the Queen's Ivor Mountbatten me out as the first openly gay member of the Brish royal fay, and Prce William ma history by appearg on the ver of a gay publitn, but the Queen has not often exprsed her views on the subject, spe a mor that followg the Royal Assent for marriage equaly 2015, she said, "Who’d have thought 62 years ago when I me to the throne, I’d be signg somethg like this?

"While LGBT rights group Stonewall was "pleased" to hear gay and lbian rights addrsed durg this year's speech, they feel the Queen uld have said more to highlight issu facg the transgenr muny. Whereas most of now wele and embrace lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, the Queen has never done I doubt that Elizabeth II is a ragg homophobe, she certaly don't appear to gay-iendly. Not once her 60-year reign has she publicly acknowledged the existence of the LGBT muny – or gay members of her own royal fay.

POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH

Even when she announced ernment plans for gay law reform her Queen's speech, she did not e the words lbian or gay. She has, for example, ignored servg gay chari like the Albert Kennedy Tst and Stonewall Hog, which support homels LGBT youth.