jide is someone who's turned his life around.so carry. so, protect yourself. by the �*80s, the outbreak of hiv and aids, which killed millions worldwide, saw gay people stigmatised. you must wear a condom. some politicians even called for making gay sex illegal again. we've rolled forward since 1957 and today is very different. we've got aids, which is a menace to health. and the schoolbook the education secretary wants to ban. in 1988, a law was brought in to stop schools from doing what they said was promoting homosexuality. there's some very good material on sex education, but this is propaganda. it was called section 28. ..are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay. in 1990, justin fashanu became the world's first top—level footballer to come out as gay. his professional career ended soon after. no, i'd do the same again because the bottom line is be true to yourself — the bottom line. he took his own life eight years later, aged 37. by 1994, the government lowered the age of consent for gay men from 21 to