Queen Elizabeth Rips Chris Christie on Gay Marriage | The New Yorker

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• QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
• QUEEN'S CO COM OUT AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ROYAL
• QUEEN ELIZABETH RIPS CHRIS CHRISTIE ON GAY MARRIAGE

QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED

By the time she died, the landspe for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights looked dramatilly different — at least the Uned Kgdom — part bee she approved of many pro-LGBTQ measur, such as same-sex marriage. ” The Brish ernment was g the 1885 Crimal Law Amendment Act — which was ed to send playwright and poet Osr Wil to prison 1895 — to arrt and prosecute queer people, particularly men, for same-sex sexual years of gay activism, Parliament passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967, which partially crimalized same-sex sexual relatns. Nearly 40 years later, passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 2003, which repealed the 1885 measure and crimalized gay sex pletely.

By the same token, he add, she shouldn’t be held rponsible for the passage of Sectn 28, a 1988 law that she gave her assent to that barred schools om “promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship.

QUEEN'S CO COM OUT AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ROYAL

”Surdy also poted to some recent reportg that the queen has exprsed support for LGBTQ people behd closed Elizabeth II durg a vis to HMS Queen Elizabeth at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, ahead of the ship's main ployment, on May 22, Parsons / PA/AP fileCarl At-Behan, the first openly gay lord mayor of Manchter, met the monarch 2021, he told the BBC after her ath. He said the queen requted an LGBTQ choir to perform at an event to mark the 600th anniversary of the royal charter to tablish Manchter was discharged om the Royal Air Force 1997 bee he was gay, and he told the BBC that he and the queen talked about how far the untry had e. “I feel she genuely red about our muny, ” he told the people have also poted to her 2013 pardon of Alan Turg, a World War II breaker often referred to as the “father of puter science” who was nvicted of “homosexual offens” unr the 1885 law.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH RIPS CHRIS CHRISTIE ON GAY MARRIAGE

But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially.

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