Sue Elliott, Steve Humphries

Not Guilty (eBook, ePUB)

Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 changed that in part, sparking a chain of social reforms that altered the face of British society for ever. But it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law, in society and in millions of private lives. This vital new oral history - to accompany a Channel 4 documentary of the same name – tells that story through the lives of gay men who lived through those years. Built around the intimate testimonies of some exceptional but largely unknown characters, it gives voice to previously untold stories of denial, deceit and subterfuge, public pain and secret pleasure through the ten tumultuous decades before and since that watershed Act. The human variety of gay experience is all here: lives lived in joyous defiance of the law and a repressive society; others always in fear of a prurient tabloid press. Those committed to love and others to licence: lifelong affairs alongside casual sex. Young gay men may now take for granted the equal treatment denied those who went before. This vibrant celebration of past achievements and hardwon freedoms offers a powerful reminder of how much has changed in the past fifty years, and a warning that hard-won freedoms can so easily be eroded in uncertain times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785902901
• Artikelnr.: 49264793

Autorenporträt

Sue Elliott is the author of Love Child (2012), The Children Who Fought Hitler (2009), Britain's Greatest Generation (2015), I Heard My Country Calling (2015), and Surviving Aberfan: The People's Story (2016). She has worked in collaboration with Steve Humphries for more than a decade and four of her books have accompanied Testimony documentaries for BBC and ITV.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction ix One George 1 Two Origins of Prejudice 1918 to 1939 13 Three
War 1939 to 1945 47 Four Under Cover 1945 to 1957 73 Five Struggle 1957 to
1967 109 Six Pride 1968 to 1974 139 Seven Fall 1975 to 1983 171 Eight
Backlash 1984 to 92 207 Nine Fightback 1992 to 96 241 Ten Almost Equal 1997
to 2016 271 Eleven Not Guilty 2017 to 307 Acknowledgements 325 Index 329