Pardons to abolished same-sex crimes
The government has said pardons extended to all abolished same-sex crimes. More people will be eligible for a pardon for criminal convictions
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The London LGBTQ+ book club
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Hating Peter Tatchell
Peter Tatchell was a 17-year-old growing when he started writing letters to the press arguing that homosexuality should be decriminalised.
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Shuggie Bain
The novel was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize, the second Scottish winner of the award, Shuggie Bain was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction.
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The Proof of Love
The sun was almost at its peak when Dorothy Wilkinson noticed the black speck moving down the mountain. It was nearly noon and she was hungry for her lunch.
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Catherine Hall
Catherine Hall was born in the Lake District in 1973. She worked in documentary film production before becoming a freelance writer and editor for a range of charities specialising in human rights and development. Her first novel was Days of Grace (Portobello, 2008).
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The repercussions
The repercussions is one of the books of Catherine Hall we read in the last few years. Join us to talk about it in our LGBTQ+ community
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Days of Grace
Days of Grace is the first novel of Catherine Hall. Be careful what you say. Like everyone else, you will
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Against The Law
A riveting account of what it meant to be a homosexual in 1950s Britain, by a central figure in the
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Against the law
United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.
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Dancer from the Dance
Dancer from the Dance is one of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance
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