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.
THE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO BE GAY: THE LEGACY OF CLSE 28
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.
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.