- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd (27 July 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856191362
- ISBN-13: 978-1856191364
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 17.1 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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This book is published on the 27th of July,1991 the 25th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, which, after a ten-year campaign, first legalized homosexual acts between consenting men over 21, in private. A quarter of a century on, the profound significance of that change and the nature of the struggle that was waged to achieve it are not always fully appreciated. Gay people and their lifestyles are still the subject of considerable controversy and entrenched prejudice, and today's gay rights campaigners are justified in believing that sweeping changes in legal and social attitudes are still called for. This is the inside story of the battle for the Wolfenden reforms, told by one of its main protagonists who was Secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society during much of the campaign and for some time afterwards. Besides giving his personal account of the reform campaign, Antony Grey comments on the subsequent course of the developing movement for gay rights. He also describes the rising power of the "moral majority" backlash, with its bitter attacks on liberalizers whom it misdescribed as "permissive". Whilst expressing disappointment at the slow progress of human sexual rights during recent years, and a sense of ever greater urgency, with the advent of AIDS, for the widespread acceptance of much more frank and realistic attitudes, Antony Grey concludes on a hopeful note, foreseeing a sexually saner 21st century in which updated moral, social and legal attitudes will combine to promote, instead of hinder, human happiness.
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A key source for gay history,
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This review is from: Quest for Justice: Towards Homosexual Emancipation (Hardcover)
This is the classic account of the way the law criminalizing male homosexual acts in England and Wales was decisively changed in 1967. It was written by the Secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society - to which, says Harrison's 1951-70 volume of 'New Oxford History of England', "his rare combination of high-serious commitment, shrewd political effectiveness, and total lack of self-advertisement was precious indeed".But the book is not just a dry legal and parliamentary account. It ranges far more widely over Grey's own life and activist career, before and after 1967, and is thus described in Harrison's bibliography as the most important of the studies of individual homosexuals too. Commended, therefore, to anyone wanting to learn about the reality of gay men's life in the second half of the twentieth century as well as to social and legal historians and to gay people wanting to explore their community's own history.
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This review is from: Quest for Justice: Towards Homosexual Emancipation (Paperback)
The delivery was slightly longer than given by the despatcher; ten days rather than the 4/5 stated on the notice of despatch.The book was in a somewhat less than the 'very good' condition advertised, being significantly yellowed across the top third of the pages. However it was complete and quite legible throughout with the binding intact. As I was very gratified to recieve this out of print book which proved useful to my research, I will on my second review raise my rating from three to four stars.
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