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The Gay Decade

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Gay sex was decriminalised in 1967 but how much did that change the public's perception of homosexuals and their lives? Philip Hensher looks back to the sixties and asks whether this really was the decade when homosexuality came out of the national closet. Contributors include dancer Wayne Sleep, writers Maureen Duffy and Paul Bailey, and artist Maggi Hambling.