The summer of 2017 saw an unexpected, and certainly unprecedented festival of queer Britain: a series across all BBC outlets called ‘Gay Britannia’, embracing drama, documentaries, stories, art and music; an ambitious Channel 4 series entitled ‘50 Shades of Gay’ covering a similar range, though a little quirkier; plays on West End and other stages; celebratory lunches, teas, dinners and receptions, including one hosted by the prime minister in Downing Street; talks, exhibitions and displays at the National Archives, the British Library, the British Museum and elsewhere. And a high-profile exhibition at Tate Britain on ‘Queer British Art 1861–1967. This extraordinary flowering was ostensibly sparked by the fiftieth anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act in July 1967, which partially decriminalized male homosexuality in private in England and Wales. Perhaps more fundamentally it celebrated a belated social recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people, charting a remarkable shift in attitudes. In historical perspective the hard-won achievement that 1967 represented looks increasingly more like the end of an era than the beginning of a new one. After his imprisonment for ‘gross indecency’ Oscar Wilde, who is a major presence in the exhibition, had warned his friend George Ives that it wasn’t so much public opinion that needed educating as public officials. It took nearly eighty years of effort to educate sufficient numbers of MPs and peers to modify the key piece of legislation, the Labouchère amendment of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 which created the offence of ‘gross indecency’ between men. Women were not similarly criminalized, so were not by any stretch ‘liberated’ by the 1967 Act. But neither were men. The reform in 1967 merely decriminalized sex between men in a very narrowly defined private space, as long as you lived in England and Wales, were aged over twenty-one and were not in the armed forces or merchant navy. In Scotland and Northern Ireland the law was not brought into line with the situation in England and Wales until the early 1980s; and it was to take another thirty years before the great wave of sexual reforms introduced by the post-1997 Labour government laid the ground-work for full legal equality and citizenship for LGBTQ people.

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奇怪的英国艺术，1861-1967年

2017年夏天，英国发生了一个意想不到的，而且肯定是史无前例的酷儿节：一系列在英国广播公司（BBC）的网点，名为“同性恋大不列颠（Gay Britannia）”，其中包括戏剧，纪录片，故事，艺术和音乐。雄心勃勃的第4频道系列节目，标题为“同性恋的50个阴影”，涵盖范围相似，但有点古怪；在西区和其他舞台上演出；庆祝性午餐，茶，晚餐和招待会，包括首相在唐宁街主持的庆祝活动；在国家档案馆，大英图书馆，大英博物馆和其他地方进行演讲，展览和展示。在泰特美术馆（Tate Britain）举办了一次备受瞩目的展览，主题为“ 1861-1967年的英国酷儿艺术”。这种非同寻常的开花表面上是由1967年7月的《性犯罪法》五十周年引发的，该法案将英格兰和威尔士私下的男性同性恋定为非刑事犯罪。也许从更根本上讲，它庆祝了对男女同性恋，双性恋，跨性别者和同性恋者的迟来的社会认可，表明态度发生了显着变化。从历史的角度来看，1967年获得的来之不易的成就越来越像是时代的结束而不是新时代的开始。展览中的主要人物奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）因犯“严重的dec亵行为”而入狱后，警告他的朋友乔治·艾夫斯（George Ives），不需要太多的舆论来当公职人员。经过近八十年的努力，教育了足够多的议员和同龄人来修改关键的立法，这是对1885年《刑法修正案》的Labouchère修正案，该修正案规定了男人之间“严重dec亵”的罪行。没有类似地将妇女定为犯罪，1967年法案并未“解放”。但是男人都不是。1967年的改革只是在狭义的私人空间中将男女之间的性行为合法化，只要您住在英格兰和威尔士，年龄都在21岁以上，并且不在武装部队或海军中。在苏格兰和北爱尔兰，直到1980年代初，该法律才与英格兰和威尔士的情况保持一致。再过三十年，1997年后工党政府发起的性改革浪潮为LGBTQ人民实现充分的法律平等和公民身份奠定了基础。年龄超过21岁，不在武装部队或商船海军中。在苏格兰和北爱尔兰，直到1980年代初，该法律才与英格兰和威尔士的情况保持一致。再过三十年，1997年后工党政府发起的性改革浪潮为LGBTQ人民实现充分的法律平等和公民身份奠定了基础。年龄超过21岁，不在武装部队或商船海军中。在苏格兰和北爱尔兰，直到1980年代初，该法律才与英格兰和威尔士的情况保持一致。再过三十年，1997年后工党政府发起的性改革浪潮为LGBTQ人民实现充分的法律平等和公民身份奠定了基础。