1980s in LGBT history

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Chapters: 1982 in LGBT history, 1986 in LGBT history, Section 28, List of 1980s American television episodes with LGBT themes, Bowers v. Hardwick, Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M, University, Operation Spanner, Operation Soap, Dudgeon v United Kingdom, Fricke v. Lynch, 1983 ISIS Survey, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, 1985 in LGBT rights, Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986, Homomonument, 1987 in LGBT rights, 1980 in LGBT rights, 1982 in LGBT rights, 1989 in LGBT rights, 1986 in LGBT rights, 1981 in LGBT rights, Homosexual Offences Order 1982, 1984 in LGBT rights, 1988 in LGBT rights, Criminal Justice Act 1980, 1, 112 and Counting, 1983 in LGBT rights, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners 1984-1985, Norris v. Ireland. Excerpt: Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was a controversial amendment to the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1986, enacted on 24 May 1988 and repealed on 21 June 2000 in Scotland, and on 18 November 2003 in the rest of the UK by section 122 of the Local Government Act 2003. The amendment stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". Because it did not create a criminal offence, no prosecution was ever brought under this provision, but its existence caused many groups to close or limit their activities or self-censor. For example, a number of lesbian, gay and bisexual student support groups in schools and colleges across Britain were closed due to fears by council legal staff that they could breach the Act. While going through Parliament, the amendment was constantly relabelled with a variety of clause numbers as other amendments were added to or deleted from the Bill, but by the final version of the Bill, which received Royal Assent, it had become Section 28. Section 28 is sometimes referred to as Clause 28 - in the United Kingdom, Acts of Parliament have sections, whereas in a Bill (which is put before Parliament to pass) those sections are called clauses. Since the effect of the amendment was to insert a new section '2A' into the previous Local Government Act, it was also sometimes referred to as Section 2A. Section 28 originated in the social transition in British society from homosexuality as "illegal-but-discussed", to "legal-but-not-always approved", following debate in the 1950s and the 1967 decriminalisation of homosexual acts for those over the age of 21 in the Sexual Offences Act 1967. The 1980s were turbulent years politically in the UK, coinciding with the large scale social changes of Margaret Thatcher's Government (see: Tha