Margaret Thatcher, a ntroversial figure on gay issu, di aged 87 | PkNews

Contents:

• THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE
• IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT
• MARGARET THATCHER, A NTROVERSIAL FIGURE ON GAY ISSU, DI AGED 87
• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
• WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE

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OKC acquired Gay, along wh TyTy Washgton Jr., Usman Gaba and a 2026 send-round pick, om the Hawks on July 12 exchange for Patty Mills. The Thunr was willg to take on Gay’s $6. Gay ranks nth among active players pots (17, 642) and fifth gam played (1, 120).

Sign up for the View om Wtmster email for expert analysis straight to your boxGet our ee View om Wtmster emailToday marks 30 years sce Margaret Thatcher's Conservative ernment troduced s highly ntroversial Sectn 28 clse, part of the Lol Government Act 1988, banned the "promotn" of homosexualy by lol thori and Bra's schools.

IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT

Councils were meanwhile forbidn om stockg librari wh lerature or films that ntaed gay or lbian them, forcg young people to look elsewhere for tnal material, fdg solace novels like Jeate Wterson's Orang Are Not the Only F (1985) and the posive exampl set by the era's "out" or androgyno pop stars. Margaret Thatcher at the Conservative Party Conference, June 1987 (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty)Activists also stormed the BBC on 23 May 1988, handcuffg themselv to a TV mera and disptg a broadst of The Six O'Clock News prented by Sue Lawley and Nicholas Manchter, more than 20, 000 people marched agast Sectn 28 while the actor Ian McKellen me out publicly for the first time orr to voice his Thatcher, rponsible for the first new homophobic law to be troduced a century, had voiced her opposn to gay rights at the 1987 Conservative Party Conference Blackpool.

"Children who need to be tght to rpect tradnal moral valu are beg tght that they have an alienable right to be gay, " she said. "She was embolned to exprs her prejudice by a rise homophobia exacerbated by the AIDS/HIV crisis and s hostile verage the right-wg tabloid Tori palised on this sentiment that same year's electn mpaign, suggtg that Labour was tent on seeg pro-LGBT+ books tght school, a powerful piece of rhetoric at a time when the 75 per cent of the populatn believed homosexualy was "always or mostly wrong", acrdg to a ntemporary Brish Social Attus survey. Sectn 28 marked a disturbg backwards step for tolerance and clivy after the stris ma by the Brish LGBT+ movement sce the crimalisatn of male homosexualy 1967, a surge of progrs that had seen activists fe allianc wh Labour unns and the Natnal Unn of Meworkers, as picted the film Pri (2014), and the electn of Margaret Roff, Bra's first "out" lbian mayor, Manchter pernic fluence of the clse unqutnably played a huge role legimisg hate and rercg playground homophobia and bullyg, monisg LGBT+ children and ensurg many stayed imprisoned the closet for fear of social reprisals or clse endured until was repealed Stland on 21 June 2001 and the rt of the UK on 18 November lear and later PM David Cameron apologised for Sectn 28 as a "mistake" on 1 July timely passg arguably reprented a watershed moment for LGBT+ rights Bra and marked progrs has sce been ma, a procs facilated by the emergence of Twter as a platform for cultivatg more sensive attus towards qutns of reprentatn and diversy.

He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. The prevly unnamed Internal Revenue Service "Whistleblower X" revealed himself durg public ttimony before three GOP-led Hoe mte Wednday, sayg he is a "gay Democrat married to a man" and wrongfully slanred as a partisan operative or a "traor" to his party.

MARGARET THATCHER, A NTROVERSIAL FIGURE ON GAY ISSU, DI AGED 87

Former Brish Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher, who was a ntroversial figure mov towards equaly and who was hailed by some as a gay in, cludg the artists Gilbert and Gee, died of a stroke this morng.

Dpe some ntroversy around Sectn 28, which 1987 banned the teachg or promotn of homosexualy and was passed unr her ernment, Barons Thatcher supported legalisg homosexualy the 1960s, the face of fierce opposn om Tory tradnalists. In 1967, she voted favour of the crimalisatn of homosexualy, England and Wal. While she was Prime Mister, was ma legal to be legal to be gay Stland 1981 and Northern Ireland 1982.

On Sectn 28, at the Conservative Party Conference October 1987, Barons Thatcher attacked “posive imag” of gay people durg her speech, sayg she worried that: “Children are beg tght that they have an alienable right to be gay.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

He ntued: “In 1988, the Thatcher ernment legislated Bra’s first new anti-gay law 100 years: Sectn 28. At the 1987 Conservative party nference she mocked people who fend the right to be gay, suatg that there was no such right. Gay men were wily monised and spegoated for the AIDS panmic and Thatcher did nothg to challenge this vilifitn.

In his first major terview on gay rights, back 2006, Conservative MP Francis M, said that his party’s approach to gay rights the 1980s and 1990s were wrong, that Sectn 28 was a mistake and exprsed his love for his openly gay brother who died of AIDS 12 years ago. Matthew Parris, the journalist and polil mentator, said he wished he had e out as gay while he was a Tory MP the 1980s, and also said that that Barons Thatcher knew he was gay. He said: “I told her I was gay when I went to say goodbye to her, and she put an arm on my wrist and said, ‘Matthew that mt have been very difficult for you to say’.

WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

Before dyg of AIDS 1985, the Earl of Avon, who was wily known to have been gay, was appoted by the Barons as Unr Secretary of State for the Environment, and before that Energy, om 1983. Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. He also gave a posn to members of Congrs behd closed doors last month.“People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.