A COUPLE OF YEARS ago, a 15-minute YouTube video started doing the rounds. It captured amazing footage from the 1988 No Clause 28 demonstration through Manchester, the largest public rally ever staged in the city.
Given that I was born and bred in Manchester, it pricked particular memories for me. I remembered being in Albert Square and watching the whole thing in real time, trying to dodge Granada Reports’ TV cameras in case my mum saw me on the news, put two and two together and made a very reasonable four. I recalled the sheer impact of watching 20,000 gay people and supporters fighting to change attitudes first in the city, then the country.
By the time I’d finished watching the video, I found an unexpected tear trickling down my cheek. The city, the march, the speeches all spoke to me as a valiant innocence. By chance, that highlighted something of the connection and differences between the teen I once was and the man I am now. It made me think long and hard about how perceptions of gay men in Britain have changed in the intervening three decades. I remembered what it felt like to assume you’d be hated. An old friend who attended the rally too messaged me and said, “You need to write about this.” I thought about the request for a couple of weeks and decided to do something about it.
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