BEFORE 1967
Many women had no choice but to get married: photo of unnamed couple from the LSE Library collection
PHOTO LSE LIBRARY COLLECTION [7VJH/5/5/14]
This year many cultural and academic institutions are marking the 50th anniversary of the partial repeal of the Sexual Offences Act in England and Wales, which made consensual sex between men illegal. While the anniversary is very important, too little attention is being paid to women’s lives and experiences while looking back at that repressive era before 1967. The exclusion renders lesbians, bi and trans women invisible and fails to acknowledge our involvement in the fight for equality and protection under the law that has shaped modern-day Britain.