the six o'clock news from the bbc, with sue lawley and nicholas witchell. it's six o'clock.tudio. stop section 28! we are protesting about rights for lesbian and gay people. in general, britain was quite a hostile environment in the 1980s for the lgbt community. about 75% of people, when surveyed, said that it was mostly or always wrong to be gay. simply by walking down the street, if somebody identified you as lesbian or gay, you could get abuse and you could be violently attacked, just for being. i obviously don't want children taught that the gay and lesbian lifestyle is natural or normal. it is not, it never has been, and it never will be. yes, my overriding concern is with the promotion of positive images of homosexuality in schools, from primary school right through, and that is what is causing many parents real concern and offence. there was this sort of catalyst moment where a book was published, called jenny lives with eric and martin, about a girl who lives with her two dads. and it sort of kicked off a moral panic in parliament. what we were told we were doing was

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she was viole ntly subdued by behind the news desk, where she was violently subdued by nicholas witchell. they carried on trying to read the news. i apologise if you are hearing quite a lot of news in the studio at the moment. i am afraid we have rather been invaded. in the four digit has all got rather muffled. you can hear muffled shouts of "top section 28". eventually we were all arrested. it did get huge media cove rage. arrested. it did get huge media coverage. the headlines were all about loonie lesbians, but over time, and beyond that, i have heard from quite a lot of people what it meant to them as young lgbt people in theirown home, meant to them as young lgbt people in their own home, knowing that they we re in their own home, knowing that they were gay but maybe not out, just feeling empowered by it. section 28 was repealed in 2003 in the uk. remember, you can watch this every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all of our realms, along with more than a thousand radio programmes in our online archive. —— watch witness. just go to the bbc news website. now we

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