Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 15th April 2027

Time: 7.30

Venue: University Library, Hull University, Cottingham Rd, Hull HU6 7RX

Description: Laws, and social attitudes, forbidding sexual relations between men brought deep suffering, Victims such as Oscar Wilde, who was imprisoned, and Alan Turing, who who suffered chemical castration, show how both the law and social attitudes persecuted gay men. What was the significance of the 1967 reform act?

How to book: Not applicable

Price: Visitors £3. University staff and all students, unwaged,- free

Tel: 01482 448065

Fax: Not available

Email: usher@usher.karoo.co.uk

Organiser: Sylvia Usher

Lecturer: Dr, Chiarro Beccalossi, Lincoln University

Comments: Information will be sent to local history societies, Civic Societies, organisers of Pride, social society

Region: Yorkshire and Humber

Branch: Hull and East Riding