Decrimalisatn changed the way homosexualy and gay culture were portrayed on screen.
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Decrimalisatn changed the way homosexualy and gay culture were portrayed on screen. * gay cinemas uk *
In recent years sce the emergence of Soho as London’s ‘Gay Village’ the basement was nverted to the Rabow Gay Cema, the two origal screens ntued to operate as the Sunset Cemas screeng ‘straight’ adult films. It opened the mid-1970’s, ially showg straight porn only but later attractg many gay men, as well as transvt and some straight women.
When the Brish parliament passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 – which stated that: “a homosexual act private shall not be an offence provid that the parti nsent thereto and have attaed the age of 21 years” – sought to legimate gay inty Bra, at least partially. Intertgly, the language ntaed wh – the “homosexual act private” – speaks directly to gay experience.
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The Act seems to be nstctg a social stage (albe obscured, out of view) on which gay men n perform. For a man livg Bra before 1967, to be gay was a crimal offence.
Therefore, how and where he was able to perform his homosexual inty would have been a nstant source of anxiety and danger. It should be mentned that the Sexual Offenc Act did not legislate for the crimalisatn of female homosexualy.
However, lbians do feature throughout the urse of this 50-year history and should be clud wh the bat around creased visibily – even if, when pared wh films about gay male experience, they are unrreprented.