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Contents:
- A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
- WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?
- GAY MARRIAGE: 15,000 SAME-SEX UPL WED SCE LAW CHANGE
- LONDON PRI PARA: HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
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The act, which crimalised homosexual sex acts between nsentg men over the age of 21, opened the door to a slew of legal and social chang which would transform the way Brish society viewed same-sex relatnships over the next 50 are some of the key dat the history of gay rights the UK:1533: The Buggery Act, the first ever law to specifilly outlaw anal sex, was signed to English law. The same year Wilblood was the only openly gay man to ttify before Lord Wolfenn's quiry, which would ultimately remend the crimalisatn of homosexualy.
WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?
* what year did gay marriage become legal in uk *
1957: The Wolfenn mtee published s report, based on three years of ttimony om police, psychiatrists and gay men but one of the mtee's 15 members, drawn om the world of polics, law, medice and amia, agreed that homosexual acts between nsentg men over the age of legal majory - 21 at the time - should not be a matter for the law.
Dpe cross-party support for the Act, MPs were hardly lg up to accept homosexualy as a legimate orientatn.
"Even those supportg crimalisatn lled homosexualy 'a disabily' and 'a great weight of shame', " says the Huffgton Post.
GAY MARRIAGE: 15,000 SAME-SEX UPL WED SCE LAW CHANGE
1972: By the early 1970s, "gay rights anisatns were sprgg up lolly and natnally, " says the Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive.
LONDON PRI PARA: HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
1988: Then-Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher troduced an amendment to the Lol Government Act 1988 banng state schools om teachg or promotg the "acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship" notor "Sectn 28" ed wispread outrage and as the talyst for a massive surge gay activism, cludg the formatn of LGBT rights group Stonewall UK. Several gay upl were wed at the stroke of midnight on 29 March 2014, when the law officially me to effect.
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
Image source, Getty ImagIt's 50 years sce the partial crimalisatn of homosexual sex England and Wal. Approval fell the 1980s when the Aids crisis and the troductn of sectn 28 - a law prohibg the promotn or teachg of homosexualy schools - uld have swayed public opn acrdg to NatCen, the thk tank which ns the a steady and rapid rise om the early 1990s reflects a wir trend of social liberalisatn, somethg also seen changg attus to pre-maral sex.