Off the banner and onto the agenda: the emergence of a new municipal lesbian and gay politics, 1979-86

1 January 1993

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Critical Social Policy

Vol. 12 (36) , 20-39
https://doi.org/10.1177/026101839301203602

Abstract

Drawing on original research, this paper examines the rise of lesbian and gay politics within the urban arena. It explores the process by which homosexuality made a new place for itself on the British municipal left's agenda. Over a period of 10 years, from the mid-1970s to the mid-1 980s, the construction of the homosexual problem' shifted so that minority group discrimination rather than undesirable sexual practices became Me policy-makers' target.

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