EPISODE · Oct 8, 2025 · 50 MIN
#10 Section 28!
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*This episode contains mention of homophobia and death. We finally reached our 10th episode!This week, Jillian and Abby discuss censorship under Section 28, the law which prohibited any mention or education about homosexuality in the UK from 1988 to 2003. useful resourcesCohen, Cathy "Punks, Bulldaggers and Welfare Queens", https://985queer.queergeektheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cohen-Punks-Bulldaggers-and-Welfare-Queens.pdf‘‘Coming Out Under Fire’: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Service Members’, National WW2 Museum, (25/06/2020), <https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/gay-and-lesbian-service-members>, [15/11/2023].‘18 November 2003: Section 28 Bites the Dust’, Stonewall, <https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/18-november-2003-section-28-bites-dust >, [15/11/2023].‘1988: Clause 28 protest leaflet. Catalogue ref: FCO 82/1979’, The National Archives, (1988), <www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-history-of-lgbtq-rights-in-britain/the-history-of-lgbtq-rights-in-britain-source-14/>, [31/12/2023].‘Lesbians in the twentieth century, 1900-1999, by Esther Newton and her students’, Out History, (2006), <https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/lesbians-20th-century/wwii-beyond/wwii-beyond-cont >, [15/11/2023].‘Queer life during the Second World War’, NI War Memorial, < https://www.niwarmemorial.org/collections/blog/queer-life-during-the-second-world-war-1>, [15/11/2023].‘Scotland throws out section 28’, The Guardian, (22/06/2000), < https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/22/kirstyscott>, [15/11/2023].‘Sexual Offences Act: 2003’, Legislation.Government, (2003), <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/28>, [15/11/2023].‘Third Ear - Section 28’, BBC Archive, (27/01/1988), < https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/third-ear--section-28/zbm4scw>, [31/12/2023].“LGBT+ History Month”, SchoolsOut, https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/, [30/01/2024].Carlick, Stephen, ‘From Sappho to Stonewall, and beyond: how fiction tells LGBTQ+ history’, Penguin Press, (01/06/2023), < https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2023/06/fiction-lgbtq-history-novels>, [31/12/2023].Dunton, Mark, ‘Equality of sexuality: The age of consent’, The National Archives: Records and research, (23/02/2023), < https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/equality-of-sexuality-the-age-of-consent/>, [31/12/2023].Grierson, Jamie, ‘Tony Blair was warned repeal of anti-gay section 28 might harm election chances’, The Guardian, (19/07/2022), <https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/19/tony-blair-warned-anti-gay-section-28-repeal-harm-election-chances>, [15/11/2023].Hartley-Brewer, Julia, ‘Blair loses section 28 vote’, The Guardian, (25/07/2000), < https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/25/education.politics>, [15/11/2023].Lugones, Maria, ‘Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System’, Hypatia,Lugones, Maria, ‘The Coloniality of Gender’, In: Harcourt, W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development, (Palgrave Macmillan, London: 2016), < https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-38273-3_2>, [31/12/2023].Mark, Joshua J. ‘Ten Ancient LGBTQ Facts You Need to Know’, World History Encyclopedia, (08/06/2021), < https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1774/ten-ancient-lgbtq-facts-you-need-to-know/>, [15/11/2023].Pyper, Douglas, Tyler-Todd, Joe, ‘The 20th anniversary of the repeal of section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988’, House of Commons Library, (28/11/2023), < https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2023-0213/>, [15/11/2023].Vol. 22, No. 1: Writing Against Heterosexism (Winter, 2007), pp. 186-209 (24 pages), <https://www.jstor.org/stable/4640051 >, [31/12/2023].Wakefield, Lily, Kelleher, Patrick, ‘The terrible, brutal history of Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic Section 28’, PinkNews, (18/11/2022), <www.thepinknews.com/2022/11/18/what-was-section-28-law-lgbt/ >, [15/11/2023].
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*This episode contains mention of homophobia and death. We finally reached our 10th episode!This week, Jillian and Abby discuss censorship under Section 28, the law which prohibited any mention or education about homosexuality in the UK from 1988 to 2003. useful resourcesCohen, Cathy "Punks, Bulldaggers and Welfare Queens", https://985queer.queergeektheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cohen-Punks-Bulldaggers-and-Welfare-Queens.pdf‘‘Coming Out Under Fire’: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Service Members’, National WW2 Museum, (25/06/2020), <https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/gay-and-lesbian-service-members>, [15/11/2023].‘18 November 2003: Section 28 Bites the Dust’, Stonewall, <https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/18-november-2003-section-28-bites-dust >, [15/11/2023].‘1988: Clause 28 protest leaflet. Catalogue ref: FCO 82/1979’, The National Archives, (1988), <www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-history-of-lgbtq-rights-in-britain/the-history-of-lgbtq-rights-in-britain-source-14/>, [31/12/2023].‘Lesbians in the twentieth century, 1900-1999, by Esther Newton and her students’, Out History, (2006), <https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/lesbians-20th-century/wwii-beyond/wwii-beyond-cont >, [15/11/2023].‘Queer life during the Second World War’, NI War Memorial, < https://www.niwarmemorial.org/collections/blog/queer-life-during-the-second-world-war-1>, [15/11/2023].‘Scotland throws out section 28’, The Guardian, (22/06/2000), < https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/22/kirstyscott>, [15/11/2023].‘Sexual Offences Act: 2003’, Legislation.Government, (2003), <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/28>, [15/11/2023].‘Third Ear - Section 28’, BBC Archive, (27/01/1988), < https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/third-ear--section-28/zbm4scw>, [31/12/2023].“LGBT+ History Month”, SchoolsOut, https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/, [30/01/2024].Carlick, Stephen, ‘From Sappho to Stonewall, and beyond: how fiction tells LGBTQ+ history’, Penguin Press, (01/06/2023), < https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2023/06/fiction-lgbtq-history-novels>, [31/12/2023].Dunton, Mark, ‘Equality of sexuality: The age of consent’, The National Archives: Records and research, (23/02/2023), < https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/equality-of-sexuality-the-age-of-consent/>, [31/12/2023].Grierson, Jamie, ‘Tony Blair was warned repeal of anti-gay section 28 might harm election chances’, The Guardian, (19/07/2022), <https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/19/tony-blair-warned-anti-gay-section-28-repeal-harm-election-chances>, [15/11/2023].Hartley-Brewer, Julia, ‘Blair loses section 28 vote’, The Guardian, (25/07/2000), < https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/25/education.politics>, [15/11/2023].Lugones, Maria, ‘Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System’, Hypatia,Lugones, Maria, ‘The Coloniality of Gender’, In: Harcourt, W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development, (Palgrave Macmillan, London: 2016), < https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-38273-3_2>, [31/12/2023].Mark, Joshua J. ‘Ten Ancient LGBTQ Facts You Need to Know’, World History Encyclopedia, (08/06/2021), < https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1774/ten-ancient-lgbtq-facts-you-need-to-know/>, [15/11/2023].Pyper, Douglas, Tyler-Todd, Joe, ‘The 20th anniversary of the repeal of section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988’, House of Commons Library, (28/11/2023), < https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2023-0213/>, [15/11/2023].Vol. 22, No. 1: Writing Against Heterosexism (Winter, 2007), pp. 186-209 (24 pages), <https://www.jstor.org/stable/4640051 >, [31/12/2023].Wakefield, Lily, Kelleher, Patrick, ‘The terrible, brutal history of Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic Section 28’, PinkNews, (18/11/2022), <www.thepinknews.com/2022/11/18/what-was-section-28-law-lgbt/ >, [15/11/2023].
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