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• Title:Not guilty : queer stories from a century of discrimination / Sue Elliott and Steve Humphries.
  
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• Variant Title:Queer stories from a century of discrimination
  
• Author/Creator:Elliott, Sue, 1951- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Humphries, Stephen, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Biteback Publishing Ltd, 2017.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD4097 .E45 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Gay people--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain--History--20th century.
  Gay people--Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
  
• Genre/Form:Law materials.
  
• Description:338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:"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"-- Publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1785902164 paperback
  9781785902161 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: One. George
  Two. Origins of Prejudice 1918-39
  Three. War 1939
  45
  Four. Under Cover 1945
  57
  Five. Struggle 1957
  67
  Six. Pride 1968
  74
  Seven. Fall 1975
  83
  Eight. Backlash 1984
  92
  Nine. Fightback 1992
  96
  Ten. Almost Equal 1997
  2016
  Eleven. Not Guilty 2017.