Tom Daley, Olympic gold wner, proud to be openly gay

Contents:

• GAY UNED KGDOM TRAVEL GUI
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY BRISH BAKE OFF CONTTANTS CALL FOR MORE LGBTQ+ INCLN
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD

GAY UNED KGDOM TRAVEL GUI

“Homosexualy has existed throughout history, all typ of society, among all social class and peopl, and has survived qualified approval, difference and the most vic persecutn.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

But what have varied enormoly are the ways which var societi have regard homosexualy, the meangs they have attached to , and how those who were engaged homosexual activy viewed themselv. Jefey Weeks mak an important pot about the unrstandg of the nature of homosexualy: is a universal phenomenon and a tenncy that manifts self human speci.

This article will exame the ways which homosexualy has been perceived Great Bra, that is the ways people have been fed on the basis of their sexual inty as well as the limatns such fns have placed on one’s inty.

The article will foc on the perceptn of homosexualy Great Bra om the 19th century up to the ntemporary perd, makg referenc to other parts of the world as well as other perds of time. The works of Jefey Weeks (Comg Out: Homosexual Polics Bra om the Neteenth Century to the Prent, 1977), Sebastian Buckle (The Way Out: A History of Homosexualy Morn Bra, 2015) and Annamarie Jagose (Queer Theory: An Introductn, 1996) are our ma pots of reference and the article draws heavily on a talk given by Jefey Weeks at the LGBT centre on 3rd April, 2019 Lyon (()).

GAY BRISH BAKE OFF CONTTANTS CALL FOR MORE LGBTQ+ INCLN

Both the Gay Liberatnist and Femist Movements manifted a latent fear of the ‘mascule lbian’ takg over the disurse of the groups aforementned; for this reason, lbians remaed outsts both, and were forced to rema distct om both the homosexual as well as the femist e.

To unrstand how homosexualy has been perceived Great Bra sce the 19th century, is important to note that homosexual sex acts remaed a crime om 1885 to 1967 that untry.

In History of Sexualy Volume 1, Fouult trac how homosexualy never ceased to pose a problem society: what evolved was the amework of persecutn, om relig to legal to fally medil stutns. The word ‘homosexualy’ began to be ed the late 19th century to signate a newly created ncept, a type of inty, jt as, for stance, a ‘hoewife’ or a ‘prostute’ this perd.

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“[The nam] are not jt new labels for old reali: they pot to a changg realy, both the ways a hostile society labelled homosexualy, and the way those stigmatized saw themselv. ” (Weeks, 3) This new notn had s roots the Hebraic and Christian tradns, and therefore had the ncept of guilt eply embedd the experience of beg a homosexual (Weeks, 4). In the 19th century (and ntug well to the 20th century), homosexualy was a matter of changg moral standards, and the public opn on the subject was extremely negative: homosexualy symbolised nce and an crease licent behavur that need to be ntrolled.

The root e of both the ‘social evils’ was said to be the unntrollable lt of men, which was the “breedg ground of both prostutn and homosexualy” (Weeks, 16, 18). Acrdg to Weeks, “’ss of the flh’ […] threatened self and natn” (Weeks, 17) at that time, which shows how the very ia of a Brish natn was threatened by homosexualy, and th need to be alt wh serly. Manls and patrtism were the virtu young boys were supposed to posss; as a stark oppose to this ial was homosexualy, a mark of effemacy and rpt morals tarnishg the social fabric (Weeks, 17).

The armed forc were stricter terms of penalisatn of homosexualy the 19th century than the laws that applied to the general public: this was perhaps bee they were a symbol of patrtism and masculy for the untry (Weeks, 13). The ual approach to homosexualy the 19th century (and even the first half of the 20th century to some extent), was to ver up the issue as and when there were s that me the limelight. Onanism and homosexualy were treated wh equal severy, and homosexualy particular was seen as “‘the secret s’ which has been learned at a private school, imported to a public school, and there tght to the youngt boys, [and which] will produce the more fashnable vic of the larger society.

'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD

This belief was le wh the 1860s bate about ‘nate’ and ‘acquired’ tras, which meant by rollary that homosexualy was nate some dividuals (and the were the s beyond help), while the others followed the nt culture prevalent at the time (Weeks, 25). An important work that shed light on the unrstandg of the subject of homosexualy this perd is Richard von Krafft-Ebg’s Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), that classified homosexualy as a pathologil ndn (Weeks, 26).

Parallel to this, there emerged a blogil explanatn on the subject, which claimed that homosexualy origated om a stunted dividual velopment and was a maniftatn of moral sany (Weeks, 27).

This was the stereotype the mds of the general public, which put homosexual dividuals at the receivg end of the vlence of societal stctur, pecially the ntext of the laws agast homosexualy at the time. “The public opn agast homosexual practice is a greater safeguard [than law], and this n be achieved by promotg the mds, motiv and wills of the people a sire for clean and unselfish livg…” (ced Weeks, 30). The words “clean” and “unselfish” unrle a ntued belief the opn of the 19th century that homosexualy is a reflectn of “public-school ‘immoraly’” (Weeks, 16) and of an unntrolled male lt that is the root e of many social problems society.