How 1967 changed gay life Bra: ‘I thk for my generatn, we’re still a ltle b uneasy’ | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?
• LONDON PRI PARA: HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
• A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
• WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?
• 'I WAS DISMISSED OM THE NAVY FOR BEG GAY'
• HOW 1967 CHANGED GAY LIFE BRA: ‘I THK FOR MY GENERATN, WE’RE STILL A LTLE B UNEASY’
• MATTY HEALY ‘UNDID YEARS OF LGBTQ+ PROGRS’ WH GAY KISS STUNT MALAYSIA, SAYS DRAG QUEEN

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed?

In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe. Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.

WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?

Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal. For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons". The Sexual Offenc Act 1967 ma chang so that homosexual men over the age of 21 uld have sexual relatnships, 1994 a further change saw rced to those aged over Sexual Offenc (Amendment) Act 2000 ma the ag of legal nsent for heterosexuals and homosexuals equal and the legal age of nsent for homosexual people was changed to 16.

LONDON PRI PARA: HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

Sometim a Q+ is add which stands for queer and + is an clive symbol to mean 'and others' to clu people of all well as an opportuny to raise awarens of the fight for equal rights for the LGBT muny, Pri is also a celebratn of the USJune is particularly signifint as this is Pri Month the US, which is where the movement fightg for gay rights began wh the Stonewall rts June has been celebrated all over the world over the last few weeks. The law changed Northern Ireland and Stland later, but was never illegal for two though the law changed the UK, is still illegal to be gay some parts of the world.

For hundreds of years, gay people have stggled to be accepted and treated the same way as people who are not have been opprsed and even killed bee of who they have feelgs for. Media ptn, WATCH: It was a 'very lonely' life when beg gay was illegal (Augt 2017)Profsor Brian Heaphy, an expert om the Universy of Manchter, explas: "Homosexualy was often treated as an illns by doctors and psychiatrists, who thought they uld 'heal' people by treatg them.

"Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people were often forced to hi their inti om their fai, iends, lleagu and public to avoid the risk of beg sgled out, harassed or beg a victim of vlence.

A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

"Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, This photo shows people France prottg agast gay marriage (the banner says 'No marriage' French)There were laws that stopped gay people om havg the same rights as people who were not gay. The ernment did not make the chang at first and more people started to mpaign for the rights of gay source, Getty ImagImage ptn, This man, John Wolfenn, led the group which ma remendatns to the ernment about how the law should be changedEventually, the law was changed 1967, which allowed two men to be a relatnship together whout the fear of beg though this happened, there were still many laws place at the time which meant that gay people did not have the same rights as people who were not gay. 1969 - A seri of monstratns New York lled the Stonewall rts started after the police raid a bar lled the Stonewall Inn, which was a popular place for gay people to hang out.

WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?

Profsor Brian Heaphy, Universy of Manchter1972 - The first Pri ftival, which celebrat the gay muny and supports equal rights, took place London on 1 July. It wasn't until 2003 that this was source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The rabow flag is a symbol of gay pri2000 - A law was changed which allowed gay, bisexual and transgenr people to be the armed forc. 2000 Stland and 2003 England and Wal - The ban on 'promotg' homosexualy schools (Sectn 28) was ptn, WATCH: Fd out more about the rabow flag - a symbol of gay pri all over the world2004 - This year marked the start of civil partnerships for same sex upl.

"Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The London Mayor Sadiq Khan and his wife Saadiya Khan led the Pri march London 2016Men who were nvicted unr the old laws that ma beg gay illegal n apply to have the taken off their rerd. Treatg somebody differently bee of their race, relign, genr or sexualy (for example, for beg gay) is lled discrimatn"Public attus are much more supportive, although there are still fai who reject their gay children.

'I WAS DISMISSED OM THE NAVY FOR BEG GAY'

We still have too much homophobic hate crime, many kids are still bullied and a lot of schools don't have an anti-bullyg programme that specifilly addrs anti-gay issu. "Today is illegal to discrimate agast somebody bee of their sexualy or genr, although many gay people face discrimatn their daily says: "We want to get to a suatn where no one r what sexualy you are; where we accept the person and their right to love whoever they wish - male, female, both or neher. 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. 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.

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. Fifty years on om the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal, there is still a long way to go to achieve full equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people this untry and across the world, Amnty Internatnal UK has warned. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) nsensual same sex relatns are still illegal 72 untri and punishable by ath eight, cludg Sudan, Iran, Yemen and Sdi Arabia, wh a potential for ath penalty a further five untri.

HOW 1967 CHANGED GAY LIFE BRA: ‘I THK FOR MY GENERATN, WE’RE STILL A LTLE B UNEASY’

Amnty is llg for the police to receive the necsary trag and rourc to al wh the crim, LGBTI people need to be enabled to have more nfince to e forward and report homophobic abe, and for victims to feel properly supported and offenrs properly prosecuted.

More than a hundred men spected of beg gay have been abducted, tortured and even killed the southern Rsian republic of Chechnya, acrdg to credible sourc si the untry. The Chechen ernment won’t adm that gay men even exist Chechnya, let alone that they orred what the police ll 'preventive moppg up' of people they nsir to be unsirable.

MATTY HEALY ‘UNDID YEARS OF LGBTQ+ PROGRS’ WH GAY KISS STUNT MALAYSIA, SAYS DRAG QUEEN

Lbian, bisexual women and trans people are also likely to face a challengg environment there and the rt of Rsia, where a ‘gay propaganda law’ has led to creased homophobia. David Kato, a proment Ugandan gay rights activist, was murred his home 2011 after his photo appeared wh others a ‘gay list’ published a Ugandan newspaper unr the headl "100 Pictur Of Uganda's Top Homos" and "Hang them", wh his addrs published si the paper.

The 50th anniversary July of the Sexual Offenc Act 1967 will be marked by celebratory events, om Queer Brish Art at the Tate to the BBC’s Gay Brannia season. It was the first gay law reform sce 1533, when anal sex was ma a crime durg Henry VIII’s reign; all other sexual acts between men were outlawed the Victorian era, new rearch reveals that an timated 15, 000-pl gay men were nvicted the s that followed the 1967 liberalisatn. Not only was homosexualy only partly crimalised by the 1967 act, but the remag anti-gay laws were policed more aggrsively than before by a state that opposed gay acceptance and equaly.