Five decades after the landmark legislation that changed gay rights forever, how far has the LGBT community come and how far does it have left to go?
The Sexual Offences Act 1967 decriminalised private homosexual acts between two men over the age of 21. Whilst the act was a significant victory for the LGBT+ community, battles are still being fought across the country to bring true equality, whether it’s campaigning for same sex marriage and adoption or asking a bakery to make your wedding cake.
Our panel, featuring some of Britain’s most influential LGBT+ figures, Polari founder Paul Burston, activist Phyll Opoku-Gyimah and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, will celebrate some of their own LGBT heroes, discuss how much progress has been made over the past half-century, and assess what issues the community still has to tackle today.