Speaking : Sex Law Politics.

In 1997 it will be thirty years since the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 made sex between two men aged over 21 in private no longer a crime. It also marks the seventieth birthday of Antony Grey, who was one of the leading campaigners for homosexual law reform in the 1960s. The articles and talks reprin...

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Main Author: Grey, Anthony
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 1997.
Series:Lesbian & gay studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART ONE: Reforming the Law; Letter to The Sunday Times, 2 April 1954; Law and Morality; Promised Land?; The Citizen in the Street; Privacy and the Outsider; Compulsory Virtue; Homosexual Law Reform; Reforming the Law on Sexual Offences; Modernizing the Sex Laws; Sex and the Law; Lessons of Section 28; PART TWO: Political/Social; Why Not?; Towards a Sexually Sane Society; Time for Sanity; Ignorance Is Not Enough; English Attitudes to Homosexuality; Attitudes to Homosexuality; The Shibboleth of Integration; Sex, Morality and Happiness; Sex and Sanity.
  • Being Rational about Being GayPermit Me If You Dare!; Gay Fears and Anti-gay Phobias; Ungay Tories; Calling All Yukkers!; Towards Homosexual Emancipation; Society Bordering on Sexual Paranoia; Pornography and Free Speech; PART THREE: Religion; Christian Society and the Homosexual; There Must Be Dialogues; Squaring the Circle: Anglican Attitudes to Homosexuality; Evangelical Evils; How Moral Is the Backlash?; PART FOUR: Young People; Consenting but Illegal?; Paedophiles
  • Are We Dodging the Issues?; Men, Boys and Sex; What Speijer Really Said; Old Enough to Choose; PART FIVE: Sex Education.
  • Hot PotatoSex Education in Danger; Family Furore; The Changing Social Climate in Sex Education; PART SIX: The Gay Movement; Minority on the March; An Open Letter to the Homophile Movement; ''I Love Me, I Hate Us!''; Gay Stocktaking; Not So Gay News; ''Out, damned spot! Out, I say!''; Review: Queer in America; Review: Virtually Normal; PART SEVEN: Past, Present, and Future.