When homosexuality was a crime

Witness History

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History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In July 1967, homosexuality was legalised in England and Wales for the first time. Before that gay men lived in fear of arrest, beatings and blackmail. Some even underwent so-called aversion therapy at psychiatric hospitals in an attempt to 'cure' themselves. Louise Hidalgo has been talking to Liverpool comedian and radio presenter, Peter Price, who still bears the psychological scars of what he was put through when he was 18.

Picture: Comedian Peter Price (copyright: private collection)

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0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello and welcome to
1:00.8	our history program witness with me Louis Adagelgo.
1:04.4	In July 1967 the Sexual Offenses Act in Britain decriminalised homosexual acts between
1:10.1	consenting men over the age of 21 for the first time in England and Wales.
1:15.0	Until then, gay men had lived in fear of imprisonment or discovery.
1:20.0	I've been talking to comedian and radio presenter Pete Price, who at the age of 18,
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