Rosy McEwen as Jean, a gay PE teacher forced to live a double life.
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It’s a sort of shameful secret that people don’t really like talking about,” says Georgia Oakley, referring to Section 28, the British-made legislation that forms the backdrop of her feature debut Blue Jean. Enacted a year after then-PM Margaret Thatcher’s 1987 re-election campaign, when she stated that “children are being taught they have an inalienable right to be gay”, this anti-LGBTQ+ ruling sought to prohibit the “promotion of homosexuality”, particularly when it came to schools.