The United Kingdom’s LGBT Movement and Interest Groups

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl Leeworthy
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Trans People ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Lgbt Movement

The LGBT movement in the United Kingdom has had considerable success in its campaign for equal rights and legal protection, in common with LGBT movements across the world. Early organization took place in secret in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before the heyday of LGBT political campaigning in the 1960s and 1970s. Key organizations in the United Kingdom included the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, the Gay Liberation Front, the Scottish Minorities Group, the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association, and the lesbian groups Kenric and Sappho. In the 1980s, the LGBT movement responded to the twin threats of HIV/AIDS and the Section 28 (or 2A in Scotland) legislation through a renewed campaigning vigor. The 21st century ushered in a period of celebration and commemoration through the advent of Pride and the establishment of heritage projects and academic research, although significant political and policy challenges remain, particularly for trans* people and for immigrants and asylum seekers.

On the Banning of a Film

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Khoo
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Island State ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter details the circumstances surrounding the banning of Tan Pin Pin’s documentary To Singapore, with Love. Shot in Thailand, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, the film is an intimate portrait of nine political exiles who left Singapore during the 1960s and 1970s due to their involvement in alleged Communist struggles. The government’s decision to ban the film reveals what is at stake in this specific act of censorship. The chapter also touches on the broader issue of censorship in relation to Singapore’s promotion of itself as a global creative city. While the island state promotes and encourages creative freedom, particularly when it involves international collaboration, it also seeks to considerably restrict freedom, especially among its own citizens.

Anita Bryant Leads a Moral Crusade

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-67
Author(s):  
Emily Suzanne Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Orange Juice ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
National Brands ◽  
Political Roles ◽  
The Face ◽  
Evangelical Women ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

During the 1960s and 1970s, Anita Bryant made a name for herself as a former beauty queen, a pop star, and a spokeswoman for national brands including Coca-Cola, Tupperware, and Florida Orange Juice. She was especially beloved among evangelical audiences, who also knew her for her frequent publication of small volumes of personal memoir and spiritual advice. In 1976, her public image shifted dramatically when she became the face of a backlash against the emerging gay liberation movement, first in Miami and then nationally. Her story demonstrates how some prominent evangelical women transformed their celebrity into a political platform during the rise of the New Christian Right in the 1970s. It also highlights the strategies that these women used to understand and justify their political roles in light of their sincere commitment to conservative gender and family norms.

scholarly journals Union citizens’ rights against their own Member State after Brexit

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-324
Author(s):  
Nicolas Bernard
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Member State ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Member States ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact

The treatment by the United Kingdom of Union citizens remaining on its territory after Brexit and conversely that of UK nationals by EU27 Member States on theirs has given rise to much discussion and analysis. By contrast, there has been comparatively little systematic and detailed exploration of the question of the impact of Brexit on the exercise of Union citizens’ rights against their own Member State. It is an issue which is for the most part ignored in the current Withdrawal Agreement. The purpose of this article is to show that this blind spot opens up a potential gap in legal protection of the rights of Union citizens, which is likely to remain regardless of the outcome of the Brexit negotiations and whether a withdrawal agreement is concluded or not. The paper discusses the extent to which the adversarial nature of the withdrawal process has contributed to this failure to address this issue and the ways in which courts could step in to provide the legal protection that political processes were unable to deliver.

Us Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: The Helms-burton and D'Amato Acts

1997 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughan Lowe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Competition Laws ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction ◽  
National Governments

The history of clashes over extraterritorial jurisdiction between the United States of America and other States in the Americas, Europe and elsewhere is a long one. That history is commonly traced back to the antitrust claims arising from the Alcoa case in 1945, in which the “effects” doctrine was advanced in the peculiar and objectionable form in which it is applied, not simply to acts which constitute elements of a single offence but which occur in different jurisdictions but, rather, to the economic repercussions of acts in one State which are felt in another. The conflict persisted into the 1950s, with the clashes over US regulation of the international shipping and paper industries. In the 1960s and 1970s there were further clashes in relation to the extraterritorial application of US competition laws, notably in disputes over shipping regulation and the notorious Uranium Antitrust litigation, in which US laws were applied to penalise the extraterritorial conduct of non-US companies, conducted with the approval of their national governments, at a time when those companies were barred by US law from trading in the United States. It was that litigation which was in large measure responsible for the adoption in the United Kingdom of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980, which significantly extended the powers which the British government had asserted in the 1952 Shipping Contracts and Commercial Documents Act to defend British interests against US extraterritorial claims.

A Forecasting Model for the United Kingdom Invisible Account

1974 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 58-76
Author(s):  
P. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Freight Rates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Invisible

The National Institute has for some time prepared and published regular forecasts for periods up to 18 months ahead of the United Kingdom's balance of payments on the invisible items in the current account as well as visible trade. The results for the invisible items have compared fairly well with those for visible trade, perhaps because the latter have until recently been the more irregular and difficult to predict. Moreover the very stability of the invisible balance during the 1960s suggests that either many of the items involved are comparatively insensitive to changes in the general economic climate or the effects of such changes were largely offsetting. In neither case could regression analysis be expected to give wholly satisfactory results, particularly in view of the poor quality of some of the data. Nevertheless it seemed worth while to see whether some of the invisible items could with advantage be predicted by formal methods rather than, as in the past, by assessing current trends and making purely ad hoc allowances for such factors as the likely course of shipping freight rates, oil prices and the level of economic activity in the United Kingdom and overseas.

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