How has life changed for gay men the UK sce homosexualy was crimalised 1967? From actor Antony Sher to novelist Alan Hollghurst, men of different generatns om across arts and polics share their stori<br>
Contents:
- GLAD TO BE GAY: LEADG FIGUR ON 50 YEARS OF LIBERATN
- 302.0: GLAD TO BE GAY
- HOW WE MA: TOM ROBSON AND NICK MOBBS ON GLAD TO BE GAY
GLAD TO BE GAY: LEADG FIGUR ON 50 YEARS OF LIBERATN
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It was not until the 1960s that the MP Leo Abse and Lord Arran proposed a bill to liberalise male homosexualy, drawg on the remendatns of the 1957 Wolfenn report. 30am on 5 July 1967, the Sexual Offenc Act was passed, crimalisg private homosexual acts between men over 21 England and Wal (Stland eventually ught up 1980, Northern Ireland 1982).
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Wrg Glad To Be Gay, social background and police opprsn, creative spiratn; Edward Bond's play Stone and Hot Peach' productn The Divas of Sheridan Square, the 'Glad To Be Gay' badg, Ray Davi' fluence, rerdg the mo versn of the song * glad to be gay badge *
In the UK, the landspe has been transformed wh civil partnership (2004), gay marriage (2013) and fai head by gay upl – every reason for gay pri.
HOW WE MA: TOM ROBSON AND NICK MOBBS ON GLAD TO BE GAY
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Events clu the Brish Mm’s show, Dire, Love, Inty: explorg LGBTQ histori, the Natnal Theatre’s Queer seri (6-10 July), which offers rehearsed readgs chartg the LGBT experience, and the Natnal Tst’s programme explorg genr diversy through the history of s ho, Prejudice and is Queerama, a new film openg Sheffield’s documentary ftival (9-14 June), that offers the most alarmg sight to homosexual life pre-1967.