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🔵   My cultural awakening: Queer As Folk helped me to come out

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Growing up under the shadow of section 28, watching the Channel 4 show made me glad to be gayDuring my school years Iwas encouraged to believe that being gay was a serious medical handicap, like having one leg shorter than the other or a parent who was also your form tutor. This was during section 28, which outlawed the promotion of the “acceptability of homosexuality” in UK schools, when nearly half the population thought being gay was “always” or “mostly” wrong. “Gay” was a synonym for “shit”; a descriptor deployed when no other slur was low enough. Detentions were gay, as was double maths.

The Guardian     May 10, 2025