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Elliott, Sue; Humphries, Steve

 
9781785902161: Not Guilty: Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1785902164 ISBN 13: 9781785902161
Casa editrice: Biteback Pub, 2017

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Fifty years ago in the UK, sex between men was a crime. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part, but it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law and society in general. This is an oral history telling that story through the lives of gay men who lived through those years.

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Steve Humphries is a former history and sociology lecturer at the University of Essex. After moving into television as a producer with LWT he set up Testimony Films to specialise in oral history programme-making. In 2016 he was awarded the Royal Television Society s Sir Ambrose Fleming Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to television.

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.

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Fifty years ago in the UK, sex between men was a crime. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part, 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 title – 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 tells 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 anniversary year is a good time to record the past, celebrate achievements and remember that hard-won freedoms can so easily be eroded in uncertain times.

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Fifty years ago in the UK, sex between men was a crime. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part, 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 title 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 tells 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 anniversary year is a good time to record the past, celebrate achievements and remember that hard-won freedoms can so easily be eroded in uncertain times.

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Editore
Biteback Pub
Data di pubblicazione
2017
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1785902164
ISBN 13 
9781785902161
Rilegatura
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Numero di pagine
338
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