Gay rights movement | Defn & History | Branni

Contents:

• KEY DAT FOR LBIAN, GAY, BI AND TRANS EQUALY
• GAY RIGHTS 50 YEARS ON: 10 WAYS WHICH THE UK HAS CHANGED
• A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

KEY DAT FOR LBIAN, GAY, BI AND TRANS EQUALY

Although female homosexualy was never directly targeted by any legislatn, was however discsed parliament for the first time 1921 wh the aim to troduce discrimatory legislatn (to bee the Crimal Law Amendment Bill 1921). The Gay Christian Movement is found at a public meetg at the Sir John Cass School the Cy of London (the anisatn's name later changed to the Lbian and Gay Christian Movement and then One Body One Fah 2017). The Act stat that a lol thory "shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy" or "promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship".

Bona = good, dolly = pretty, eke (ef) = face, lalli = legs, naff = bbish/poor, nanty = no/nothg, ogle = look/eye, omi = man, omipalone = gay man, palone = woman, riah = hair, varda = seeRound the Horne, Sunday 7 March 1965, 14. Negative portrayals of the LGBT+ muny on televisn are wispread at this time, but radil for s day, toward the end of this episo of Steptoe and Son a gay police officer is troduced, whout all the ual stereotyped characterisatns. Meanwhile science strand Horizon broadsts Killer the Village, the first full-length -pth UK documentary on the health crisis emergg New York’s gay village known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS.

Most LGBT+ performers om Freddie Mercury to Gee Michael keep their sexualy quiet as the mic dtry mands, but two new bands wh out-gay members and lyrics wh gay them break nventn wh their h but sgl Frankie Go to Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ and Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’. The Sectn stated that lol thori “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy” or “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”. Part of the Schools Out UK project — self created as a rponse to the repeal of Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1988, which prohibed the promotn of homosexualy and the publishg of any material that “promoted” homosexualy — aimed to te and spire.

GAY RIGHTS 50 YEARS ON: 10 WAYS WHICH THE UK HAS CHANGED

A regular at molly ho (the equivalent of a gay bar) across London, there are no reports of Serapha ever beg Ambrosiana/Getty Imag1770s — Geiana, Duchs of Devonshire, be the first known lbianFemale homosexualy was not nsired a crimal offence, and as such, "evince" is often difficult to fd. 1861 — The Offenc Agast the Person Act is passedIn 1861, new legislatn replaced the Offenc Agast the Person Act of 1828, revokg the ath penalty for homosexual acts between men but replacg wh a prison term of hard labour. 1957 — The Wolfenn Report lls for the crimalisatn of gay sexThe Wolfenn Commtee was formed rponse to the arrts of Brish cryptographer Alan Turg ( 1952) and Lord Montagu of Beli ( 1954) unr the Crimal Law Amendment Act (which me to force 1885, see above).

The Camn Lbian Centre operated for many years and hoed groups cludg the lbian disabily group GEMMA and Zamimass, a signifint Black lbian anisatn that promoted a Black lbian and gay sectn on the Pri march. 1982 — The Homosexual Offenc (Northern Ireland) Orr is passedThe crimalisatn of male homosexual acts Northern Ireland was largely thanks to the se of Jeff Dudgeon, a gay rights activist om Belfast, who filed a plat wh the European Commissn of Human Rights after beg terrogated by the Royal Ulster Constabulary about his sexual activy. 1984 — The Uned Kgdom’s first openly gay MP is Parliament Chris Smh has been stmental changg gay liv, beg the first openly gay MP 1984; he went on to bee the first gay bet mister and the first polil figure to adm to beg HIV-posive.

A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

1985 — The Black Lbian and Gay Centre is tablishedThe Black Lbian and Gay Centre, created to provi advice, unselg, a library, and other rourc for the Black queer muny, received ernment fundg and was tablished. 1986 — The first issue of Black/Out magaze is publishedEded by Joseph Beam and published by the nonprof anisatn Natnal Coaln of Black Lbians and Gays, Black/Out was a quarterly magaze and the voice of the new movement of Black Lbians and Gays.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

"1988 — Sectn 28 legislatn is passedThe now-famo Lol Government Act's Sectn 28 legislatn was effect om May 1988 to 2003, nyg lol thori the abily to support LGBTQ+ nstuents, as fundg was whdrawn om arts projects and tnal rourc that promoted “an alternative gay fay” were censored. 2000 — The age of nsent for homosexual acts is lowered to 16 England, Wal and StlandThe Sexual Offenc (Amendment) Act 2000 changed the legal age of nsent for homosexual people to 16 England, Wal, and Stland and to 17 Northern Ireland. 2002 — Same-sex upl are given equal rights to adopt England and WalIn 2002, the Adoptn and Children Act ma is possible for gay and lbian people, whether sgle or a uple, to adopt and foster children England and Wal.

2014 — Asifa Lahore beme Bra’s first out Mlim drag queenIn 2014, Lahore entered the natnal spotlight when the Birmgham Central Mosque censored her om discsg Islam and homosexualy on the BBC's Free Speech. Bet/Getty Imag2018 — Lord Ivar Mountbatten be the first member of the extend Brish royal fay to e out publiclySon of the third marqus of Milford Haven and to the queen, Mountbatten me out as gay 2016 and married Jam Coyle 2018 at his untry tate Devon. History of LGBTQ rights the UKLet's look more -pth at the issu faced by the LGBTQ+ muny the homosexualy: crimalisatn and crimalisatnMale homosexualy was illegal om the early sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century.

The 1533 Buggery Act crimalised male homosexualy and offenrs were given the ath ttable and abomable Vice of Buggery mted wh mankd or act rried the ath penalty, makg homosexualy a pal crime for the first time UK history. Only 2013 was the origal, homophobic nvictn of 'gross cency' officially overturned by the Brish Rights UK: DecrimalisatnThe first real attempt to rensir the stat of homosexualy was ma by the Report of the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn, otherwise known as the Wolfenn Report of 1957. Homosexualy was crimalised by the Crimal Jtice Act of 1980 Stland and the Homosexual Offenc Orr of 1982 Northern fight for an equal age of nsentIn 1994 Conservative MP Edwa Currie proposed that the age of nsent for male homosexual acts be lowered to 16 to match the heterosexual one, but her motn was feated the Hoe of Commons 307 to 280.