LGBTQ+ advot hail Pope’s rejectn of sexual orientatn as crime and ll to bishops to rist anti-gay laws as ‘tone’
Contents:
- 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
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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 QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY
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” 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 Nearly 40 years later, passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 2003, which repealed the 1885 measure and crimalized gay sex pletely.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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II: MONARCH RED ABOUT GAY RIGHTS, SAYS FORMER MAYOR
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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.
THE QUEEN TAK A STAND FOR WOMEN, AND MAYBE GAY RIGHTS, TOO
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.
POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
” 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. ” But 2018, the outlet also reported that the queen’s first openly gay senr footman, Ollie Roberts, rigned after a seri of “huiatg motns.