Lookg through our llectn for signs of the long stggle for gay rights.
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THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
We’ve gone om homosexualy beg punishable by imprisonment or ath, banned om beg tght schools, and diagnosed as a mental illns, to beg celebrated Pri paras and given equal marriage and adoptn rights. Activists groups, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) formed as a rult and the Stonewall rts are now remembered as one of the most important talysts for morn LGBT movements worldwi. The Sectn stated that lol thori “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy” or “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”.
Health anisatns no longer stigmatise homosexualy or transgenr issu wh dated fns, and Pri events across the untry give LGBTQ+ people a place to feel clud, heard, and valued. 1897 – First English-language publitn of Sexual Inversn by Havelock Ellis and John Addgton Symonds, the first medil textbook about homosexualy.
- On Sunday 23 November several hundred people marched om Marble Arch to attend a rally Trafalgar Square London llg for homosexual law reform. Wikipedia: Timele of UK LGBT history: Timele of events rerd the Hall-Carpenter Archiv: Gay Chronicl om the begng of time to the end of World War II: NHS Northwt LGB&T Timele: PCS Proud Ourstory: retrieved via the Inter Archive.
A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
Glasgow Lbian Archive and Informatn Centre timele: Jobcentre Pl Timele of gay history: GLBTQ Encyclopedia: Uned Kgdom History UK Gay News Timele Of Gay and Lbian Marriage, Partnership or Unns Worldwi: Black Brish Lbian Timele: Timele of CHE and s tim (om 1945): See also. ↑ the Gay Liberatn Front had a loose group lled the GLF Youth Group 1971 (see Lisa Power (1995) 'No Bath but Plenty of Bubbl; an oral history of the Gay Liberatn Front 1970-73' (Cassell;London) page 109). Up to 40 members of the Gay Liberatn Front had anised the prott, hopg would serve as an antidote to wispread gay shame prevalent throughout the muny.
“They were ashamed of their sexualy and genr inty so our unter to gay shame was Gay Pri, ” Peter Tatchell – one of the people who anised that 1972 Pri march – recently told GAY TIMES. “Back then the overwhelmg amount of LGBTQ+ people were closeted, shameful and didn’t believe they were entled to equal rights, ” Peter told , addg that gay patrons outsi of queer pubs would throw s and beer bottl at them.
“They said we were extremists, they said that mandg equal rights for gay people would only draw public attentn to and rult further opprsn, ” Peter explaed. In the UK we’ve fought for and won many rights – om same-sex marriage, equal age of nsent, the Genr Regnn Act, and the right to adopt, through to repealg the homophobic Sectn 28 that probed the teachg of LGBTQ+ experienc schools the 90s. The former prs officer for the Brish Iron and Steel Feratn started volunteerg for the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) 1958, which mpaigned to change laws that crimalised gay men.