World Context Events
Housing Act defines overcrowding
1985 – New act provides legal definition of overcrowding
Read MoreFirst out MP
1984 – Chris Smith comes out
Read MoreGays The Word raided
1984 – Charged with obscenity
Read MoreBermondsey by-election
1983 – Peter Tatchell ran for parliament, and struggled against open homophobia in the campaign against him.
Read MoreHomosexuality legalised in Northern Ireland
1982 – legalised in line with the rest of UK
Read MoreTerry Higgins dies
1982 – Terry Higgins died of AIDS, and the THT was formed is his memory.
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