Tag: gay rights movement

India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism

By Onni Gust February 26, 2014 LGBTQ 0 comments

Onni Gust On 11th November, 2013, the Indian Supreme Court upheld section 377 of the Indian Penal code, which declares “carnal intercourse against the order of nature against any man, woman or animal” to be a crime. The ruling came as a shock to LGBT rights activists. In 2009, following […]

"The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?" A trade union moment

By Bob Cant February 24, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Bob Cant In 2009, I addressed the LGBT Trades Union Congress (TUC) about the Millthorpe Project, a sound archive of the lifestories of LGBT trade unionists. Thirty years previously, it would have been inconceivable for the TUC to host an annual event about issues facing LGBT people at work. I […]

Glad To Be Gay in Scarborough (1980)

By Bob Cant February 12, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 1 comment

Bob Cant Collaboration between the procedurally correct trade union movement and the playful street theatre of the gay liberation movement was never going to be easy. My own trade union, National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) provides a case study of events typical of trade unions […]

What should LGBT History Month say about Empire?

By Onni Gust February 10, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Onni Gust Robert Baden-Powell, Cecil Rhodes and Lawrence of Arabia have three things in common: 1) They are all white and male- assigned; 2) They are all suspected to have harbored homosexual desires, and, in the case of Rhodes, to have had a male lover and partner; 3) They all […]