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Bess Levin, Vanity Fair
i can not stress enough how this is an actual fax FOR REAL real article in a major publication, which you can read here [ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/democrats-dangerous-republicans-marjorie-taylor-greene ] and is absolutely NOT a satire article.
[ID: Headline from an article that says “Republicans Can’t Believe Democrats Don’t Want to Work With Them Just Because of the Guns and the Death Threats and the Congresswoman Who Thinks Jews Started the California Wildfires With Space Lasers”. End of ID]
On this day, 2 February 1988, four lesbians abseiled into the UK House of Lords in protest at an ongoing debate about introducing the homophobic section 28 law which came into force that May. Section 28 of the local government act 1988 prohibited local authorities, including schools, from teaching “the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” In 2017, four other lesbians climbed onto the Houses of Parliament in order to put up a blue plaque commemorating the 1988 action.
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To learn more about homophobia and LGBT+ activism in Britain around this time, listen to our podcast episodes 27-29, about Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, available on all major podcast apps or here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e23-25-lesbians-gays-support-the-miners/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1643359132515897/?type=3
A comic adaptation of Zoe Leonard’s “I want a dyke for president” (1992)
always a john and never a hooker
always a boss and never a worker

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