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Article: Sex & the British: The Facts of Homosexual Life
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 23, 1994
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HOMOSEXUALITY - HOW COMMON IS IT?
Until very recently, society viewed homosexuality as sickness or
sin. Up to 1967, male homosexuality was a criminal offence in
Britain, and only in 1974 was it removed from the list of
psychiatric disorders by the American Psychiatric Association, to
be replaced by the diagnosis "sexual orientation disturbance".
We saw last week that, since the Second World War, the idea that
sex should be confined to marriage has declined dramatically. But,
as we shall see, the idea that sex should be confined to
relationships between men and women is still widely held. The
growing acceptance of gay sex in the 1970s received a setback with
the advent of Aids in the 1980s. ...