The ‘born this way’ argument has also been subjected to substantial criticism.
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Thatcher and Homosexuality: Waiting for Section 28
There was an exquisite cruelty about the way her remarks were directed towards the opposition Labour Party.
The Archbishop’s Argument: Anglicanism, Homosexuality, and Colonial Complexities
It is a curious and powerful discursive move to link the murder of hundreds of people in Nigeria to the vaguely described suffering of British queer people.
Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History
The argument that individual rights is the natural legacy of civil rights has long been a staple of American conservatism.
Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics
‘Gay Jim Crow’ invests in false equivalence by appropriating continued struggles of people of color in the United States.
India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism
The legacy of imperial Victorian sexual mores continue to haunt the lives of gay people in India and large parts of former British colonies.
"The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?" A trade union moment
CHE was not the only organisation to be engaging with the question of being gay – or openly gay – in the workplace.