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.

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

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”.

A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

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.

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.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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.