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At the 1987 Conservative party conference Margaret Thatcher used her keynote speech to attack the notion that people had a right to be gay.Ĭoinciding with this intolerant atmosphere was a massive rise in arrests of gay men for consenting behaviour. In the 1980s, the Conservative government’s “ family values” campaign whipped up hysterical levels of homophobia, aided by the moral panic over HIV/Aids. Gay fathers and lesbian mothers lost custody of their children in divorce cases. Some were turned away from pubs and restaurants. Others were refused rented accommodation or evicted from it. People were denied employment or sacked from their jobs because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Homophobic discrimination in housing, employment and the provision of goods and services remained lawful by default,` with no legal protection against it until between 20. But by 1974, my research shows, the annual number of convictions had soared by more than 300% to 1,711 in that year. In 1966, the year before partial decriminalisation, some 420 men were convicted of gross indecency. Gay and bisexual men, and some lesbians, continued to be arrested until the 1990s for public displays of affection, such as kissing and cuddling, under public order and breach of the peace laws. “Disorderly house” charges were pressed against gay clubs that allowed same-sex couples to dance cheek to cheek. There were police stake-outs in parks and toilets, sometimes using “pretty police” as bait to lure gay men to commit sex offences.
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But many aspects of gay male life remained criminal. The 1967 decriminalisation meant that homophobic laws were not enforced in some circumstances. There were police stake-outs in parks and toilets, sometimes using ‘pretty police' as bait There were also arrests under ancient legislation against indecency, such as the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 and the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860.
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Men were convicted under this law, before and after 1967, for merely smiling and winking at other men in the street. The law against soliciting and importuning criminalised men chatting up men or loitering in public places with homosexual intent, even if no sexual act took place. The two main gay crimes continued to be anal sex, known in law as buggery and gross indecency, which was any sexual contact between men including mere touching and kissing.There was also the offence of procuring – the inviting or facilitating of gay sex. ‘Come out! Come out! Come out!’ Fifty years of gay liberation GuardianĬenturies-old anti-gay laws remained on the statute book long after 1967 as “unnatural offences”. Legislation authorising the sacking of seafarers for homosexual acts on UK merchant ships was repealed only last month. Gay military personnel and merchant seamen could still be jailed until 1994, for behaviour that was no longer a crime between gay civilians. It did not include the armed forces or merchant navy, where sex between men remained a criminal offence. The 1967 reform applied to only England and Wales, not being extended to Scotland until 1980 and to Northern Ireland until 1982. Seven men in Bolton were convicted of these offences and two were given suspended jail terms – in 1998. It continued to be a crime if more than two men had sex together or if they were filmed or photographed having sex by another person. Gay sex remained prosecutable unless it took place in strict privacy, which meant in a person’s own home, behind locked doors and windows, with the curtains drawn and with no other person present in any part of the house. The punishment for a man over 21 having non-anal sex with a man aged 16-21 was increased from two to five years. The age of consent was set at 21 for sex between men, compared with 16 for sex between men and women a decision that pandered to the homophobic notion that young men are seduced and corrupted by older men. The 1967 legislation repealed the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for anal sex. In total, from 18, nearly 100,000 men were arrested for same-sex acts. Not only was homosexuality only partly decriminalised by the 1967 act, but the remaining anti-gay laws were policed more aggressively than before by a state that opposed gay acceptance and equality. My new research reveals that an estimated 15,000-plus gay men were convicted in the decades that followed the 1967 liberalisation.