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Why on earth did you want to walk into this minefield? well, firstly, you're making me feel very old. upfront. yeah. i've been doing this for a long time. quite simply, stonewall changed my life. the raison d'etre for the creation of stonewall was when a government was passing a piece of legislation, a tory government was passing a piece of legislation, which polled really well. you said it. it was called section 28. what did it do? it banned the promotion of, as i think i remember, pretend family relationships in school. my life is not a pretend relationship. and stonewall has gone on to not ...

Changed my life. the raison d'etre for the creation of stonewall was when a government was passing a piece of legislation. a tory government was passing a piece of legislation which polled really well. you said it. it was called section 28. what did it do? it banned the promotion of, as i think i remember, pretend family relationships in school. my life is not a pretend relationship. and stonewall has gone on to not just help repeal that legislation, but allow lgbtq+ people to thrive in society. so i'm thrilled to take this on. it's challenging. you said it, but it's important work. but for yo...

When aids came along, the partners of the ones who died, the families would sweep in and throw them out of the flat or whatever. it was a time of real despair and bitterness. we're over that one now with the recognition of gay partnerships, with the civil partnership. and people can't do that to their children any more. but there was still more fighting to be done after teaching about homosexuality was banned in schools. children who need to be taught to respect traditional, moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay. the way that the community came back togeth...

But those years also saw huge trials. so don't die of ignorance. when aids came along, the partners of the ones who died, the families would sweep in and throw them out of the flat or whatever. it was a time of real despair and bitterness. we�*re over that one now with the recognition of gay partnerships, with the civil partnership. and people can�*t do that to their children any more. but there was still more fighting to be done after teaching about homosexuality was banned in schools. children who need to be taught to respect traditional, moral values are being taught that they have an i...

Would like to add, you saw that report there, what you would like to add in terms of what 1972 was like for a gay man in the uk. it add in terms of what 1972 was like for a gay man in the uk.— for a gay man in the uk. it was absolutely _ for a gay man in the uk. it was absolutely incredible, - for a gay man in the uk. it was absolutely incredible, the - for a gay man in the uk. it was - absolutely incredible, the changes, you cannot really quantify them. i was born in 1973 so these people were much in the year before people like me were born and specifically for people like me. i was growing...