Not Guilty: Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination - Couverture souple

Elliott, Sue; Humphries, Steve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785902164 ISBN 13 : 9781785902161

Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 changed that in part, sparking a chain of social reforms that altered the face of British society for ever. But it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law, in society and in millions of private lives.

This vital new oral history to accompany a Channel 4 documentary of the same name tells that story through the lives of gay men who lived through those years. Built around the intimate testimonies of some exceptional but largely unknown characters, it gives voice to previously untold stories of denial, deceit and subterfuge, public pain and secret pleasure through the ten tumultuous decades before and since that watershed Act.

The human variety of gay experience is all here: lives lived in joyous defiance of the law and a repressive society; others always in fear of a prurient tabloid press. Those committed to love and others to licence: lifelong affairs alongside casual sex.

Young gay men may now take for granted the equal treatment denied those who went before. This vibrant celebration of past achievements and hard won freedoms offers a powerful reminder of how much has changed in the past fifty years, and a warning that hard-won freedoms can so easily be eroded in uncertain times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Steve Humphries is a former history and sociology lecturer at the University of Essex. After moving into television as a producer with LWT he set up Testimony Films to specialise in oral history programme-making. In 2016 he was awarded the Royal Television Society s Sir Ambrose Fleming Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to television.

Sue Elliott is the author of Love Child (2012), The Children Who Fought Hitler (2009), Britain s Greatest Generation (2015), I Heard My Country Calling (2015), and Surviving Aberfan: The People s Story (2016). She has worked in collaboration with Steve Humphries for more than a decade and four of her books have accompanied Testimony documentaries for BBC and ITV.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Biteback Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785902164
• ISBN 13: 9781785902161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible