Gay rights: Life under Section 28 - BBC Newsnight

May 24, 2018 | 30 years ago Section 28 was introduced. It was - the now repealed - clause of a local government act, to stop a council promoting the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship. That's a quote.

The prominent gay writer and journalist Matthew Todd - he was editor at Attitude magazine for many years - was in school in those days, and looks back now, at the effect it had. …


Adolf Hitler’s Deutschland had Paragraph 175; Margaret Thatcher’s Britain had Section 28! Clearly, enlightenment and tolerance were in short supply in those dark days! — © Mark Alexander