Contents:
- 1987. POLICS: MARGARET THATCHER RIS “ALIENABLE RIGHT TO BE GAY”
- THE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO BE GAY: THE LEGACY OF CLSE 28
1987. POLICS: MARGARET THATCHER RIS “ALIENABLE RIGHT TO BE GAY”
“Children who need to be tght tradnal moral valu are beg tght they have an alienable right to be gay. This amendment was the first attempt to “rtra lol thori om promotg homosexualy. One ernment mister even went so far as to pot out how difficult was to fe ‘the promotn of homosexualy’.
On October 9th, 1987, four months after re-electn, Margaret Thatcher rid the notn of an alienable right to be gay.
Two months after that, on December 8th, a new clse ‘prohibg the promotn of homosexualy’ was serted to the Lol Government Bill and the followg year was passed to law.
THE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO BE GAY: THE LEGACY OF CLSE 28
Apart om the obv brilliance of highlightg the cel and vastatg impact AIDS had on gay men and their iends the 1980s, Rsell T Davis’s new show ‘It’s a S’ also remds jt how anti-gay polics was. Whilst gay sex was crimalised Bra 1967(for those over 21), the AIDS crisis heightened stigmatism towards the LGBTQ+ muny. The fear of tchg AIDS and the lack of public knowledge around the subject is thought to have led to Margaret Thatcher’s monisatn of the gay muny.
By 1988, the Lol Government Act banned the “promotn” of homosexualy by lol thori and Bra’s schools’ unr ‘Clse 28’. Lol thori were no longer able to fund LGBTQ+ groups as they had been dog or have gay books public and school librari. In the show ‘It’s a S’, newly qualified teacher Ash Mherje is asked on his first day to censor the school library unr Clse 28 by removg any books that may promote homosexualy.
Not one homosexual, not anywhere. He go on to talk about history books, culture, art and relig books and “there is not the slightt danger of any child beg fected bee there’s not one gay man or women anywhere. The fear of beg ‘fected’ wh homosexualy, as one uld be fected wh AIDS, was enough to keep Clse 28 place spe prott.