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The Victorian age
- The reign of queen Victoria
- Strict gender roles
- Seperate spheres, women and men only coming together at breakfast and dinner
- Women were physically weaker but morally superior to men
- Women were not expected to be interlectual
- Difficult to be homosexual
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Wh. Auden - Stop all the clocks
A poem about a homosexual man losing his lover and losing his belief in love.
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Decriminalisation if homosexuality
- Gay people were being killed because of who their sexuality
- Homosexuality was treated as an illness
- LGBT were forced to hide their feelings from their family, friends, colleagues etc. to avoid being harassed and singled out
- Gay men in a relationsship would get arrested
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The Stonewall riots
- A series of demonstrations fighting for gay rights (The beginning of the movement)
- Stonewall riots, were named after the police raided a popular bar for gay people to hang out (Stonewall inn)
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The first pride
- A celebration of the gay community
- Took place in London
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Section 28 introduced
- A law in which teachers were not promote gay relationships in schools
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GB allowed in the armed forces
- Gays and bisexuals were now allowed in the armed forces
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Gay people were allowed to adopt - Law changed
- Both married and unmarried gay people were now allowed to adopt children
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Section 28 changed
- The ban on 'promoting' homosexuality in schools (Section 28) was overturned.
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Civil partnerships for gay people
- This meant that they had similar rights to people who were married, but civil partnerships are not exactly the same as marriage.
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Illegal to encourage homophobic hatred.
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Gay marriage legalized in England and Wales