The Long Shadow of Section 28

Created
Wed, 24/05/2023 - 19:02
Updated
Wed, 24/05/2023 - 19:02

Today marks 35 years since the enactment of a piece of legislation that has since become synonymous with the aggressively anti-LGBT+ policy platform of Margaret Thatcher. Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, banning ‘the promotion of homosexuality’ by councils, was ushered in at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It helped to assert […]