Two of Us was commissioned by the BBC in 1986 as part of its Scene TV series for schools and sixth form colleges. But the plans were quickly derailed by the increasingly rabid homophobia generated to justify Section 28. The … Continue reading →
Today marks the 30th anniversary of another protest against Section 28 – the brilliant ‘Never Going Underground’ demonstration in Manchester, England. Conservative MPs and their friends in the media continued to make up poisonous lies against us to justify this … Continue reading →
Britain’s lawmakers clearly under-estimated the fury of the LGBT+ community when they introduced Section 28 of the Local Government Act to Parliament. They may, indeed, have thought that they could ignore the thousands who had marched against the enshrining of … Continue reading →
Section 28 of the UK’s Local Government Bill was only added to that Bill on December 8th 1987. Yet, within a week, the newly-created Organisation for Lesbian and Gay Action (OLGA) had organised an 800-strong lobby of MPs at the … Continue reading →
December 2017 marks the 30th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s government accepting an amendment into its Local Government Bill. This amendment subsequently became known as Section 28 and, very broadly, it sought to prevent public money from being used to “promote” … Continue reading →