Abstract
Section 28 of the British government’s 1988 Local Government Act stated that:
-
(1)
A local authority shall not
-
a)
intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality;
-
b)
promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.
-
a)
-
(2)
Nothing in subsection (1) shall be taken to prohibit the doing of anything for the purpose of treating or preventing the spread of disease.1
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Jeffrey Weeks, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, rev. edn (London and New York: Quartet Books, 1990 ), p. 242.
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, trans. by Alan Sheridan (London: Penguin, 1977 ), pp. 195–203.
See Philip Osment, ed., Gay Sweatshop: Four Plays and a Company ( London: Methuen Drama, 1989 ).
Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power ( Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997 ), p. 99.
Simon Garfield, End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS ( London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994 ), p. 183.
Copyright information
© 2009 Helen Freshwater
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Freshwater, H. (2009). Section 28: Contagion, Control and Protest. In: Theatre Censorship in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230237018_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230237018_7
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-30874-3
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-23701-8
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts CollectionLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)