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Contents:
- A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
- WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED AT MIDNIGHT ENGLAND AND WAL
- GAY RIGHTS 50 YEARS ON: 10 WAYS WHICH THE UK HAS CHANGED
A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
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. 1835: Jam Pratt and John Smh beme the last men Bra to be executed for homosexual acts. 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.
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.
1972: By the early 1970s, "gay rights anisatns were sprgg up lolly and natnally, " says the Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive. In 1972, upwards of 2, 000 gay men and women marched London's first Pri para.
WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL 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. Stland legalised gay marriage December 2014.
Gay marriage remas illegal Northern Ireland.
Homosexualy has had a long past The U. The exact date for when homosexualy was ma legal the U. For the rerd, homosexualy was crimalised 1967 the U.
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
Even after 1967, homosexuals were still unsafe and often experienced discrimatn of all sorts and had to work their way through . But the end, everythg falls le, and so did the homosexualy laws.
History of homosexualy laws the Uned Kdom.
GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED AT MIDNIGHT ENGLAND AND WAL
Let look at the history of homosexualy and homosexualy laws the U.
1861: From the 1500s till 1860, people were given the ath penalty for beg homosexual.
They suggted he moved to France to save himself as homosexualy was legalised France durg the French Revolutn. 1957: By 1954, the number of persons beg imprisoned the Uned Kgdom for beg homosexual or for homosexual acts had gone over a thoand per year. 1967:It took another for the laws ncerng homosexualy to be reformed.
GAY RIGHTS 50 YEARS ON: 10 WAYS WHICH THE UK HAS CHANGED
Still, discrimatn happened agast homosexual dividuals.
1984: The members of the homosexual muny showed support towards the mors, and an alliance was formed durg the mer’s strike. 1984: Comg to the polil area, Chris Smh was the first MP to e out gay. 1988: In the year 1988, unr the ernance of Margaret Thatcher, sectn 28 prohibed the ‘promotn’ of homosexualy and rtricted teachg about homosexualy schools.
1990: The first-ever profsnal football player to e out as gay was none other than Jt Fashanu. 1999: The armed forc had put a ban to employ homosexuals the armed forc. Meanwhile, four men were dismissed for beg gay, and they chose to fight agast .