It amazes me how little people know about how hateful the press was to gay people, anti racists, and women back in the 1980s and 90s. I wonder if people will forget page 3?!
That's how the anti trans people are getting away with it; people too young to have seen EXACTLY the same arguments used against gay people.
Remember when people were told to be scared of lesbians in the toilet?
Or Thatcher saying that indoctrination of children was causing them to 'turn gay'?
On the one hand, we've come a long way, and that's great. Remember the controversy of the Brookside kiss? The gay relationship in EastEnders?
But on the other, we're living through the demonisation of trans people, following exactly the same arguments and patterns.
The 'scandals' of people being outed by the press and the underlying insinuation that gay men were a threat to children was common currency, it wasn't even hidden.
Another parallel with treatment of trans women today.
Decades of anti-left propaganda was very successful in getting ordinary British working people to consistently vote for parties who only protect the interests of the rich..
Is the gay power one meant to be Thatcher? Granted my childhood recollections of the 80s are not politically derailed but I don’t recall her being a gay rights champion?
Advert currently uses Enola Gay as its track, which seems inappropriate to the point I checked it was actually it. That threw up that the BBC banned the song due to the corrupting influence on children.
Fair enough, Hiroshima is a sensitive subject. What, oh, it's because it had Gay in the title
It’s been interpreted that way, yes, as reflecting contemporary fears of parasitic consumption / contamination of nations by Jewish immigrants. Dracula’s physical description reflects the common antisemitic stereotype of the time. Plus the obvious connection to blood libel, his interest in gold etc.
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https://www.thepinknews.com/2018/11/30/world-aids-day-1980s-headlines-tabloids/
But it's never as effective as their narrative insists it must be. People still remember. Even if they don't get a platform to say so.
This was while the same paper was complaining about “pulpit poofters”
It all seems forgotten.
Remember when people were told to be scared of lesbians in the toilet?
Or Thatcher saying that indoctrination of children was causing them to 'turn gay'?
And seeing cartoons like this would really surprise and shock them, that this was mainstream.
But on the other, we're living through the demonisation of trans people, following exactly the same arguments and patterns.
Another parallel with treatment of trans women today.
Some of us, at least.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cummings
I was lucky to miss these in the 80s, instead being fed a diet of Zeitgeist and Red Cat in the Guardian Weekend magazine by the end of it.
Fair enough, Hiroshima is a sensitive subject. What, oh, it's because it had Gay in the title
I’m also of an age where the first general election campaign I can remember was 1987.
It was grim and the papers were more than happy to run with the hate.
Which was disheartening as a lot of my relatives believed and parroted the shit.