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• GROWG UP GAY IN THE ISLE OF MAN: THEN AND NOW
• TOP GAY DTATNS: ISLE OF MAN

GROWG UP GAY IN THE ISLE OF MAN: THEN AND NOW

Saturday 12 June 2021 at 5:17pm Cred: Joshua Stok, ITVThe Isle of Man has been celebratg s first ever Pri event today followg chang to the law which crimalised homosexualy. 50 people marched the flag to the Villa Mara garns on the Isle of Man Cred: Joshua Stok, ITVThe Manx Government didn't lift rtrictns until 1992, 25 years after celebratns today saw around 50 people marchg the flag to the Villa Mara garns, while thoands gathered to celebrate LGBTQ+ aniser of the event, Alan Shea, was the man whose inic Tynwald Day prott 1991 me to symbolise the fight to overturn the island's anti-homosexualy that day he appeared at the foot of Tynwald Hill drsed the striped uniform of a ncentratn mp victim to highlight the plight of gay people the Isle of Shea's inic prott 1991Three years later, the law was repealed, but has taken until January 2020 for the Manx Government to give a formal apology for the law - and Mr Shea was prent to wns history beg ma. Read our privacy noticeA event to celebrate gay, lbian and transsexual rights will take place the 2022 will take place on Saturday, Augt first Pri took place last year and was seen as a big aga, the Villa Mara Garns will be the settg for what Isle of Pri ordator Clare Barber MHK says will be an event not only ’bigger and better’ than the 2021 ftival but will also provi an opportuny to celebrate a landmark Manx said: ’The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the crimalisatn of homosexual acts the Isle of Man and ’s only right that we celebrate what was a hard-fought battle and honour those who were brave enough to stand up, speak out and challenge and ultimately change attus.

The month of June is marked the world over as Pri month, a perd dited to the celebratn and memoratn of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) pri. Homosexual acts were crimalised here 1992 – 25 years later than England and Wal, and 12 years after Stland. He said wir awarens of what meant to be gay was somethg that ‘didn’t really exist’ at the said: ‘Certaly my earlier childhood was imag of fun and entertament for the mass.

‘Durg the eighti there was the AIDS crisis bed wh the Thatcher ernment’s imposn of Sectn 28, so was very homophobic atmosphere which to grow up. ‘Also, Lnel, to his great cred, gave the Ellan Vann Gay Group a lumn, before was legalised, and so that rmatn was out the Courier at the time.

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‘At that time the law was that homosexual acts were agast the law, and people were prosecuted bee of that.

’As is well documented, on Tynwald Day July 5, 1991, gay rights mpaigner Alan Shea exercised his mocratic right to prent a petn of grievance to the Island’s Parliament, St John’s. His petn sought a change the Manx law relatg to the crimalisatn of homosexualy. He had shaved is head and was clad a mock ncentratn mp uniform – nsistg of pyjamas (bought om Marks & Spencer Strand Street) and pated wh grey and black eher si of his cht, he had a badge quotg gay prott group ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power) statg that the AIDS crisis is not over, and a pk triangle ntag the three legs of man (the pk triangle was the symbol ed to mark LGBTQ prisoners the Nazi mps – not dissiar to the yellow Star of David ed to signal Jewish prisoners).

But was to put the foc on homophobia the Isle of Man and to get [rid of] an outdated law. ’As a recent Manx Natnal Herage article put , Alan was ‘liberately drawg parallels between the treatment of gay people on the Isle of Man and Nazi persecutn of homosexuals durg the Send World War. ‘Wh the threat of imprisonment for acts of homosexualy, many lol gay people felt isolated and imprisoned wh their own muni and targeted by police activy.

We didn’t thk people would behave differently, we didn’t thk we’d be vad by homosexuals.