Jeffrey Weeks Editor’s note: In this special guest post, Jeffrey Weeks reflects on his 1988 interview with Marc Stein, which appeared in its entirety for the first time on NOTCHES as “Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher.” Framing this 1988 interview were two important political contexts: Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government had passed Section […]
Tag: Section 28
Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher: Marc Stein in Conversation with Jeffrey Weeks
Interview by Marc Stein In May 1988, when I was working as the coordinating editor of Gay Community News in Boston, Massachusetts, I interviewed Jeffrey Weeks, the influential British sociologist and historian who had written Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1977), Sex, Politics, […]
Thatcher and Homosexuality: Waiting for Section 28
There was an exquisite cruelty about the way her remarks were directed towards the opposition Labour Party.
LGBT History Month: Are We Celebrating or Relegating LGBT History?
Claire Hayward February 2014 marks the ninth celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month. The first LGBT History Month was launched by Schools OUT in response to the repeal of Section 28, which had prohibited the positive discussion of homosexuality in Local Government institutions, including schools. Since that […]
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