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Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences  / Justin Bengry.

Notches 04-08-2015
source: Notches 04-08-2015
resume: UK Labour Party leadership contender Andy Burnham recently proposed automatic pardons for all men convicted of historical homosexual offences that are no longer crimes. This has been an ongoing conversation in the UK, which in 2013 granted WWII Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing a posthumous royal pardon. The issue reappeared in the lead up to this year's May 7 general election, when Labour's then-leader Ed Miliband came out in favour of case-by-case pardons for living individuals and also posthumous cases. David Cameron and the Conservatives soon followed suit, likewise promising that if were they to form the next government, men convicted of historical offences would be pardoned. Burnham's announcement has reinvigorated this question of whether all men should have similar convictions deemed spent, pardoned or erased. A well-publicised petition supported by Turing's family, activists like Peter Tatchell, and celebrities like Benedict Cumberbatch and Stephen Fry demands that a royal pardon be extended to all men convicted under 'anti-gay' laws. More than 600,000 people have signed the petition demanding the state 'Pardon all of the estimated 49,000 men who, like Alan Turing, were convicted of consenting same-sex relations under the British 'gross indecency' law (only repealed in 2003), and also all the other men convicted under other UK anti-gay laws'. As a historian of Britain's LGBTQ past I cannot sign this petition nor support anything more than pardons for living individuals.
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Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences
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Pride of Place : A Guide to Understanding and Protecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Heritage  / text by Robert Bevan, Justin Bengry and Richard Morrice.

[Swindon]: Historic England, 2016 - 17 p.: ill.
edition: [Swindon] : Historic England, 2016 - 17 p.: ill.
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resume: This guide has been published to make sure LGBTQ-related buildings, gardens, areas, monuments and other heritage assets are identified and the most important of these recognised in planning decisions and through the formal heritage protection system.
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Pride of Place : A Guide to Understanding and Protecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Heritage
cat. (bevan/ben) dgb grijs
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Films and Filming : The making of a queer marketplace in pre-decriminalisation Britain  / Justin Bengry.

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resume: Looking at the international film magazine Films and Filming, which ran from 1954 until 1990, I uncovered a deliberate and strategic policy of identifying and cultivating queer consumers long before the 1967 Sexual Offences Act decriminalised homosexual acts between men in Britain. Published and edited by homosexual men and assembled by a largely queer staff, Films and Filming's producers deliberately coded the magazine for men like themselves, with little or no interest in lesbians. Throughout its life, Films and Filming's articles on censorship of homosexual themes in film, references to sexually ambiguous male actors like Rock Hudson and Dirk Bogarde, humour, sexual innuendo and homoerotic photo spreads all reinforced for many that Films and Filming was queer. From its initial issues in 1954, Films and Filming sought what we would today call the 'pink pound', or Britain's queer market segment. Commercial advertisements promoted queer-friendly and queer-owned businesses; the first issues included ads for Vince Man's Shop, the notorious Soho men's boutique. Discreet 'bachelor' ads from men looking for same-sex partners began appearing in the mid 1950s. These were soon a key feature of the publication's pre-decriminalisation years, later becoming more explicit adverts for sexual partners and queer prostitutes. By the 1960s, some readers were so sure of the magazine's queer audience, they even sought to buy or sell homoerotic magazines and films through its classified ads. Advertisers and readers both recognised that the tone and focus of much of the magazine's visual, editorial and feature content spoke directly to queer men as one of the magazine's intended audiences. Readers, too, actively participated in the magazine's queer project, submitting and responding to personal contact ads that confirmed their place among Films and Filming's growing and lucrative readership.
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Films and Filming : The making of a queer marketplace in pre-decriminalisation Britain
dgb artikelen (bengr/fil)
Justin Bengry.
In: British Queer History : New Approaches and Perspectives / ed. Brian Lewis. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013. - p. 244-266.
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Queer Profits : Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain  / Justin Bengry.

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resume: Newspapers are consumer goods, and their producers actively seek methods to increase circulation and revenue. For some, relaying the scandal and titillation at the intersection of sexual aberration and criminal offence promised significant returns. Audiences followed the Sunday papers for this kind of respectable pornography, which provided lurid details of sexual abnormality decontaminated for their consumption through the inclusion of details of legal process and punishment. Press commodification of queer scandal grew so lucrative, in fact, that it contributed to the creation of homosexuality as a public issue attracting government concern and ultimately requiring state intervention. Criminalised in Britain until 1967, male homosexual acts entered public discourse in the early 1950s as never before. But the government was not solely interested in homosexual legal reform. Its initial interest was in commercial exploitation. Paradoxically, then, the profit motivations of the scandal press that both vilified but also publicised homosexual desire must be considered part of the history of legal reform in Britain that led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
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signature: dgb artikelen (bengr/que)
Queer Profits : Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain
dgb artikelen (bengr/que)
Justin Bengry.
In: Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years / eds. Matt Cook and Heike Bauer. - Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - p. 167-182.
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