Tag: Margaret Thatcher
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Sexual Offences Act 1967: Reform and repression
The criminalisation of homosexuality did not end in the UK until 2013 – a full 46 years after the Sexual Offences Act 1967. So don’t be misled by the celebrations on 27 July, which will mark the fiftieth anniversary of this legislation.
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Gay pardons for up to 100,000 men welcomed
The government has today confirmed the granting of pardons to men convicted under historic anti-gay laws, pre-2003, for consenting adult same-sex behaviour, where such behaviour is no longer a crime today.
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Margaret Thatcher’s campaign to save Soho’s gay institutions
She’s back, has had a change of heart on Section 28 and is now a cabaret sensation in ‘Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho’.
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Margaret Thatcher Dies After Stroke
Baroness Margaret Thatcher has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her spokesman Lord Bell has announced.