RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/116103440226824026
Thank you all for trying, most didn't....and I had my queer youth stolen from me because of it.
Trying to fit in with you Straights for a quiet life, did not make me a happy boy as it turned out.
It wasn't until the 21st century when Tony Blair finally got round to undoing this travesty, so fuck him for his slackness, but most of all fuck Thatcher for fucking over my Youth.
You don't forgive shit like that.
Ever.
#OtD 20 Feb 1988 20k people in Manchester marched against Margaret Thatcher's homophobic section 28 law, which made it illegal for public bodies to "promote" homosexuality, including teaching its "acceptability" in school https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9263/demonstration-against-section-28