One such call came from The Sun, a newspaper owned by the same person who would later create Fox News.I mean, there were some calls for all of us to be put into camps.
One such call came from The Sun, a newspaper owned by the same person who would later create Fox News.
I wasn't saying that it was entirely Rupie's or the Tories' fault. I was saying that I would expect such a view to be far more fringe.Making it all the fault of Rupie or the Tories is a great myth, unfortunately the tabloids were just echoing popular opinion at the time. Someone else can speak for the US, but the British public had been strongly homophobic even before Murdoch bought the Sun, and would continue to be until well into the nineties, when things started to turn. According to the British Social Attitudes Survey, even in 1993, sixty-three percent of Labour supporters and even fifty-seven percent of Lib Dem supporters were saying homosexuality was 'always or mostly wrong'. http://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-...-30/personal-relationships/homosexuality.aspx Around the time of the introduction of Section 28, ninety-three percent of people were saying gay men should be unable to adopt children. In short, it was a time of monolithic homophobia, and it's very hard to believe it was only all of thirty years ago.
Making it all the fault of Rupie or the Tories is a great myth, unfortunately the tabloids were just echoing popular opinion at the time. Someone else can speak for the US, but the British public had been strongly homophobic even before Murdoch bought the Sun, and would continue to be until well into the nineties, when things started to turn. According to the British Social Attitudes Survey, even in 1993, sixty-three percent of Labour supporters and even fifty-seven percent of Lib Dem supporters were saying homosexuality was 'always or mostly wrong'. http://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-...-30/personal-relationships/homosexuality.aspx Around the time of the introduction of Section 28, ninety-three percent of people were saying gay men should be unable to adopt children. In short, it was a time of monolithic homophobia, and it's very hard to believe it was only all of thirty years ago.
I think the other user was refering to the idea of gay people being put in camps and I'm sure that was a far more fringe belief than the then widespread belief that homosexuality was wrong.
Making it all the fault of Rupie or the Tories is a great myth, unfortunately the tabloids were just echoing popular opinion at the time. Someone else can speak for the US, but the British public had been strongly homophobic even before Murdoch bought the Sun, and would continue to be until well into the nineties, when things started to turn. According to the British Social Attitudes Survey, even in 1993, sixty-three percent of Labour supporters and even fifty-seven percent of Lib Dem supporters were saying homosexuality was 'always or mostly wrong'. http://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-...-30/personal-relationships/homosexuality.aspx Around the time of the introduction of Section 28, ninety-three percent of people were saying gay men should be unable to adopt children. In short, it was a time of monolithic homophobia, and it's very hard to believe it was only all of thirty years ago.