Bra is celebratg the anniversary of the 1967 act, but fact anti-gay laws were enforced more aggrsively by the state after was passed
Contents:
- A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- HOW 1967 CHANGED GAY LIFE BRA: ‘I THK FOR MY GENERATN, WE’RE STILL A LTLE B UNEASY’
- WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?
A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
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The act, which crimalised homosexual sex acts between nsentg men over the age of 21, opened the door to a slew of legal and social chang which would transform the way Brish society viewed same-sex relatnships over the next 50 are some of the key dat the history of gay rights the UK:1533: The Buggery Act, the first ever law to specifilly outlaw anal sex, was signed to English law. 1835: Jam Pratt and John Smh beme the last men Bra to be executed for homosexual acts. The same year Wilblood was the only openly gay man to ttify before Lord Wolfenn's quiry, which would ultimately remend the crimalisatn of homosexualy.
1957: The Wolfenn mtee published s report, based on three years of ttimony om police, psychiatrists and gay men but one of the mtee's 15 members, drawn om the world of polics, law, medice and amia, agreed that homosexual acts between nsentg men over the age of legal majory - 21 at the time - should not be a matter for the law.
Dpe cross-party support for the Act, MPs were hardly lg up to accept homosexualy as a legimate orientatn. "Even those supportg crimalisatn lled homosexualy 'a disabily' and 'a great weight of shame', " says the Huffgton Post. 1972: By the early 1970s, "gay rights anisatns were sprgg up lolly and natnally, " says the Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
In 1972, upwards of 2, 000 gay men and women marched London's first Pri para. 1988: Then-Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher troduced an amendment to the Lol Government Act 1988 banng state schools om teachg or promotg the "acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship" notor "Sectn 28" ed wispread outrage and as the talyst for a massive surge gay activism, cludg the formatn of LGBT rights group Stonewall UK.
Several gay upl were wed at the stroke of midnight on 29 March 2014, when the law officially me to effect. Stland legalised gay marriage December 2014. Gay marriage remas illegal Northern Ireland.
HOW 1967 CHANGED GAY LIFE BRA: ‘I THK FOR MY GENERATN, WE’RE STILL A LTLE B UNEASY’
The 50th anniversary July of the Sexual Offenc Act 1967 will be marked by celebratory events, om Queer Brish Art at the Tate to the BBC’s Gay Brannia season. I feel ambivalent about the celebratns: 1967 was progrs, but the crimalisatn of homosexualy the UK did not fact end until 2013. It was the first gay law reform sce 1533, when anal sex was ma a crime durg Henry VIII’s reign; all other sexual acts between men were outlawed the Victorian era, new rearch reveals that an timated 15, 000-pl gay men were nvicted the s that followed the 1967 liberalisatn.
WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?
Not only was homosexualy only partly crimalised by the 1967 act, but the remag anti-gay laws were policed more aggrsively than before by a state that opposed gay acceptance and equaly. The age of nsent was set at 21 for sex between men, pared wh 16 for sex between men and women; a cisn that panred to the homophobic notn that young men are sced and rpted by olr men. Gay ary personnel and merchant seamen uld still be jailed until 1994, for behavur that was no longer a crime between gay civilians.
Legislatn thorisg the sackg of seafarers for homosexual acts on UK merchant ships was repealed only last month.