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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. “Although I’d been a practisg homosexual sce I was 9 or 10! ’” The doctor also ed the word “homosexual”.
THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO TO JAIL IN ENGLAND JT FOR BEG GAY
” He did not realise, however, that gay men exist everywhere.
“I thought homosexuals were only the navy.