On this day, 20 February 1988, 20,000 people in Manchester marched against Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic section 28 law, which made it illegal for public bodies to “promote” homosexuality, which included banning schools teaching the “acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”. The law was abolished in 2003, although later Conservative Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May both voted against the complete scrapping of the ban.
For more info about the lives of LGBT+ in the UK at the time, check out our podcast about Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, especially as it’s LGBT history month: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e23-25-lesbians-gays-support-the-miners/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1354501448068335/?type=3