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HOW 1967 CHANGED GAY LIFE BRA: ‘I THK FOR MY GENERATN, WE’RE STILL A LTLE B UNEASY’
When I began my send year rearch project on media reprentatn of homosexualy, the thought of utilisg the rourc at the Bill Douglas Centre never even crossed my md. I foced specifilly on media reprentatns the perd between the Wolfenn Report and s remendatns to crimalise homosexualy 1957, and the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 which crimalised homosexualy. Released 1961, ‘Victim’ was the first English-speakg film to al wh the topic of homosexualy, and explicly mentn the word self.
The plot follows a succsful married barrister Melville Farr who risks his reer and reputatn to unver a gang of blackmailers who are extortg money om both Farr and other homosexual men.