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Gay in the 80s
Nice to read the history. People often take an assumption that it was X that started &#; or maintained &#; same-sex attracted rights movement or Y, and do not grasp that it was the steady accretion of strive over 48 and more years that did it. I joined the Gay Law Reform Society in as an year-old, sending off one the very earleist cheques from my first chequebook, attended a meeting of the North West Homosexual Law Reform Society in Manchester in or , wrote a letter to my scholar newspaper that resulted in a full doublepage spread in it on the subject of Homosexuality, all this before the Proceed was passed. Between and HLRS sent almost weekly bulletins on the passages (or not) of the Bills proposed by successively the Earl of Arran, Humphrey Berkeley MP &#; it cost him his Tory seat &#; and Leo Abse MP setting uot the blocking clauses put up by those hostile to the respective Bills. Few pay tribute now to Anthony Grey, the Secretary of the HLRS whose tireless serve paved the way to the Act.
In the rouse of flower power, the Gay Liberation Front got started in the delayed s/very early s, and I went to a couple of the Powis Square meetings &#; packed and exciting! I march
Gay in the 80s
While there have, undoubtedly, been significant milestones in LGBT history in earlier decades, I believe the 80s was a particularly crucial period.
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That decade saw a major shift towards the emergence of a global gay culture. The gay genie came right out of its petite pink bottle and into the streets (and the media&#;and politics&#;and the arts&#;)
Ironically, much of this was driven by adversity. The appearance of HIV/AIDS was most certainly a factor: it ripped through our communities but, at the same time, engendered a spirit of unity and resistance that transcended national borders.
But there were many other storms &#; excellent and small &#; that had to be weathered too. For example, in the US, the Court of Appeal ruled that there was no &#;fundamental right&#; to be gay.
In the UK, the Thatcher government created Section 28 of the Local Government Act, making it illegal for local authorities to support anything that might promote homosexual relationships as a viable alternative to heterosexual &#;family life&#;.
No friends of queer people. US President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II.
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Gay in the 80s by Colin Clews
Gay in the 80s - From Fighting for Our Rights to Fighting for Our Lives
On the face of it, the 80s weren't the best decade for gay people around the society. Challenges included the increase of the New Right in the USA, Section 28 in the UK which prohibited the promotion of homosexuality nd the continuing criminalisation of homosexuality in the majority of Australian states. The unfolding AIDS crisis overlay all of this.
But it wasn’t all doom and gloom; by the end of the eighties there had been some very real progress. Major political parties had LGBT rights in their manifestos, trades unions increasingly took up the cause and regional legislators introduced anti-discrimination laws and policies. LGBT people became more prolific in film, television, melody and literature and the LGBT community grew significantly.
Gay in the 80s examines a number of the events and issues in the UK, USA and Australia, giving a comprehensive perspective of queer life during this decade
It is a unique perspective on a pivotal era in LGBT history.
Three years before the AIDS epidemic swept the nation in , the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus opened its doors. We couldn't imagine how much the crisis of AIDS in s would alter our community and we could not have predicted how many people would turn to the Chorus for refuge and a sense of community.
Let’s get a look back at the AIDS epidemic history over the past 40 years and how it affected not only our Chorus and our group, but our entire society.
The Beginning of the s AIDS Crisis
There is no clear explanation for the cause of HIV. The first recorded case was in in a Congolese man's blood sample. While he was HIV positive, the exact details of whether he developed and died of AIDS are unknown.
Decades later when the s AIDS crisis started, there was only one understanding of HIV/AIDS: it only affected young homosexual men. These men soon developed uncommon opportunistic infections that previously only affected individuals with compromised immune systems and rare forms of cancer.
As a fallout, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) formed a Task Force in the summer of to handle KS/OI (Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections).
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