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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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It screams GAY GAY GAY to me. And this was in 1937.
Now I know that the 1930s were very "bohemian tolerant" and were actually very liberal. So I am hypothesising somewhat. But in the UK it was 30 years later that homosexuality was decriminalised. At that time the word "Queer" was on everyone's lips as the law was passed to make it legal for consenting adults (over 21) to do as they wished with each other in PAIRS only and in private.
After that law was passed it BECAME illegal to ask another man to GO into privacy for sex, but not to have sex. That is stil the case today, though the age of consent has been changed.
It was in 1967, in the climate of hostility towards queers that I grew up, open hostility because of the legalisation. That climate created Gay Lib and Gay Pride, rather I think that GL and GP creating the law changes. But that is not the point I was going to suggest.
Did the liberal attitude of the 1930s ALLOW Hitler's vision in Germany to take hold as a backlash? Did the war create a climate which crushed homosexual people? Did it create the excuse for experimentation on queers (we were NOT gay when I grew up, we were queers) in order to cure them?
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