The Way Out

ISBN: 9781784531836 出版年：2015 页码：278 Sebastian Buckle Bloomsbury Publishing

In 1957, thethousand men in prison for 'homosexual offences'. A littcentury later, homosexuality is an actimainstream. Homosexuality has a public profile - on TV, literature and popular culture. When did today's fairly open discourse on homosexuality begin? Sebastian Buckle argues that homosexualiidentity began after the Second Worrelease of the Wolfenden Report which recommended gay sex be decriminalised, and tells the story of homosexuality in the publtakes us through early images of homosexuality in the 1950s, the founding of the Gay Liberation Front, Section 28 and community radicalism under Margaret Thatcher's government, tof the 1980s, the expanding musical and cultural influence of gay subcultures and the resulting partial acceptance into the mainstream of queer identities. The result is a complex and nuanced history of gay movements, society and the media, and a frethe struggle for acceptance and equality has been fought.