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Contents:
- THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO TO JAIL IN ENGLAND JT FOR BEG GAY
- WHAT ’S REALLY LIKE TO BE OPENLY GAY PRISON
- THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
- GAYS PRISON
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO TO JAIL IN ENGLAND JT FOR BEG GAY
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Image source, Getty ImagMore people will be eligible for a pardon for historil crimal nvictns relatg to homosexual activy, the ernment has means anyone nvicted or utned for nsensual homosexual activy, unr now-abolished laws, n apply to have them "disregard" nvictns would be wiped om rerd and an tomatic pardon home secretary said she hoped the revised scheme "would go some way to rightg the wrongs of the past" 2012, people England and Wal have been able to apply to have historil same-sex sexual utns and nvictns 2017 so-lled "Turg's Law" was passed - named after the wartime breaker Alan Turg who was nvicted of gross cency for homosexual acts. Campaigner Lord Cashman has prevly highlighted how the offence of solicatn by men, which he said "was ed to entrap gay and bisexual men, sometim for dog nothg more than chattg up another adult man", is not clud the origal scheme. Earlier this year, fellow peer Lord Lexn said was "an afont to gay people" that the scheme had not been extend.
WHAT ’S REALLY LIKE TO BE OPENLY GAY PRISON
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The ernment tends to e an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencg and Courts Bill to broan eligibily for a the future, the scheme will enpass any repealed or abolished civilian or ary offence which was imposed on someone purely for, or due to, nsensual same-sex sexual amendment will also enable those who have died prr to the amendment g to force, and wh a year after the amendment to force, to be posthumoly ptn, LGBT rights mpaigner Lord Cashman first me to promence playg the gay character Col Rsell EastEnrs durg the 1980sHome Secretary Pri Patel said: "It is only right that where offenc have been abolished, nvictns for nsensual activy between same-sex partners should be disregard too. In a statement, they said: "Parliament has a duty to wipe away the terrible stas which they placed, que wrongly, on the reputatns of untls gay people over centuri. " David Bonney, who was nvicted of homosexual nduct while servg the RAF 1993, thks he was the last person the UK to be sent to jail for beg gay remaed an offence the armed forc until 2000.
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
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Image source, David BonneyImage ptn, David Bonney believ he may be the last person the UK to be sent to jail for beg gayMr Bonney served four months of a six-month sentence a ary prison Colchter before he was eed on appeal.
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”.
GAYS PRISON
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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!
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
’” The doctor also ed the word “homosexual”. ” He did not realise, however, that gay men exist everywhere.
“I thought homosexuals were only the navy.
But spe now knowg he was gay, he had no ia how to act upon onboard ship. “I was thkg, How do you regnise somebody [as gay]? I spoke to him and he told me what was gog on, that there were gays on the ship.