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Graham pairs their reflections with extracts from Hansard debates ahead of the adoption of Section 28.
Those extracts are horrid, they feel like they come from a different era, expect that the dodgy arguments that justified Section 28 have been refreshed and are being redeployed in the current attacks on Trans rights – it feels depressingly all to contemporary.
The links between Section 28 and the baggage of shame that so many Gay men of my age carry is not really a new revelation – but it is cathartic to have it articulated powerfully, and in that powerful explanation some of the shame’s toxic power is reduced – knowing the mind-games that were played on you creates the possibility of moving beyond them.
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