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HOW GAY ARE YOU?
You'll fd out exactly how gay you are once and for all. He is old now – 81 – but the events of his youth, when Bra hated gay men, still is 50 years this month sce the laws forbiddg sex between men were overturned England and Wal – laws that led to the nvictn of World War II breaker Alan Turg, the rceratn of Osr Wil, and thoands more jailed like Biddlebe.
“At that time I had never heard the word ‘homosexual’, ” he says – nor “queer”. It would be another before people ed the word “gay” to mean anythg other than happy, and another 15 before sex between men beme law agast “buggery” – as the offence was known – dated back to 1533, but 1885, the related offence of “gross cency” was add, outlawg any sexual ntact between such, the law did not only mean jail; s impact sd out, ntrollg and suffotg: an all-pervasive prison.
Generatns of gay men (there was no law agast lbianism) died wh the lie.
THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO TO JAIL IN ENGLAND JT FOR BEG GAY
“Although I’d been a practisg homosexual sce I was 9 or 10! ’” The doctor also ed the word “homosexual”.
” He did not realise, however, that gay men exist everywhere. “I thought homosexuals were only the navy. But spe now knowg he was gay, he had no ia how to act upon onboard ship.