The ary ban, which was lifted 2000, meant that gay people were dishonourably discharged and sometim, stripped of medals.
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- NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL THE UK 2014-2020
- THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO TO JAIL IN ENGLAND JT FOR BEG GAY
NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL THE UK 2014-2020
There were timated to be approximately 1.65 ln people the Uned Kgdom who intified as beg Gay, Lbianm or Bisexual 2020, pared wh 843,00 2014. * being gay in the uk *
There are still many untri the morn world where beg gay is not accepted and LBGTQ+ people are opprsed and live fear.
THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO TO JAIL IN ENGLAND JT FOR BEG GAY
By the end of 1954, there were 1, 069 gay men prison England and Wal, wh an average age of 37. 1954 - The Wolfenn Commtee was set up on 24 Augt 1954 to nsir UK laws relatg to "homosexual offenc"; the Report of the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn, (better known as the Wolfenn report), was published on 3 September 1957. It remend that "homosexual behavur between nsentg adults private should no longer be a crimal offence", fdg that "homosexualy nnot legimately be regard as a disease, bee many s is the only symptom and is patible wh full mental health other rpects”.
1964 - The North Wtern Homosexual Law Reform Commtee (NWHLRC) was formed.