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VICTIM AT 60: THE HEARTBREAKG GAY DRAMA THAT PHED BOUNDARI

Released to a world where sex between adult men the Uned Kgdom was a heavily policed crime, is the first Brish film to e the word homosexual si a narrative that thoughtfully and unsensatnally ptur the cumulative daily strs and adly effects of the law. Unr the guise of a thriller, Victim addrs how the crimalisatn of homosexualy ma gay men, as a character says, the victims of “any cheap thug who fds out about our natural stcts.

In a le of dialogue drawn om fact, we learn that as many as 90 percent of all Brish blackmail s at this time had a homosexual orig. Dearn’s film is shaped by outrage, which ught the public imagatn – Victim has been ced as one trigger for the Sexual Offenc Act, which eventually crimalised homosexualy Bra 1967.

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