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Feb 9, 2018 · The gay characters aren’t there as sidekicks, or as people with nothing better to do than to sit around and give endless relationship advice to their straight friends. They’ve got their own stuff going on, and the two sets of relationships spark off each other in a chain reaction.
- Social approval of same-sex relationships has risen rapidly. The proportion of the British public who say they approve of same-sex partnerships has soared over the past 30 years.
- 1967 was not the end of the story. While the 1967 act was a milestone in equality, it was far from the end of the story - and it chiefly benefited men who had sex with men.
- Criminalisation of gay people continued into this century. In 1967, homosexuality was only partially decriminalised. Those keen to criminalise any public displays of consensual homosexual activity still had tools to do so through the offence of "gross indecency", which had a broad interpretation.
- Government has attempted to redress this legacy. Given this legacy of criminalisation, the government introduced a scheme in October 2012 allowing those prosecuted under defunct gay-sex-related laws, to have their convictions removed from police and court records.
The laws on homosexuality and heterosexuality. The legal age of sexual consent for heterosexuals in the UK is 16. Consent means agreeing to something, in this case to having sexual intercourse....
As people of any orientation may participate in same-sex relationships (particularly depending on the legal, social and scientific definition of sex), some activists argue that referring to a same-sex relationship as a "gay relationship" or a "lesbian relationship" is a form of bisexual erasure.
Mar 15, 2021 · The Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions, the Vatican office responsible for doctrine has said.
The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have developed significantly over time. [2] Today, lesbian, gay and bisexual rights are considered to be advanced by international standards.
Jul 26, 2016 · Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations becomes law in the UK, making it illegal to discriminate against lesbians, gay and bi people in the workplace. Stonewall Cymru is founded. Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, both British university professors, legally marry in Canada.
