2026-04-20
30 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today, a year after the Supreme Court judgment on trans rights, does Stonewall have a future?
If you know anything about the fight for gay rights in the UK, you will have heard of Stonewall.
From its founding in 1988, it had one clear purpose,
to overturn Margaret Thatcher's ban on teaching children about homosexuality.
Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught
that they have an inalienable right to be gay.
Of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life.
Yes, cheated.
Section 28 banned teachers from promoting the idea that it was OK to be gay,
or what the law called pretend family relationships.
After 12 years of relentless campaigning by Stonewall,
the legislation was repealed in Scotland in the year 2000, followed by England and Wales two years later.
And that's not all Stonewall has achieved.
MPs will vote at around 10 o'clock tonight on whether to lower the gay age of consent.
It pushed to equalise the age of consent, to lift the ban on gay people in the military.
And to give gay and lesbian people the right to get married.
Britain's lower house of parliament has voted to back a law legalising same-sex marriage.
Without equal marriage, it was still looked at in some way as different, as less valid or less important.
And that simply doesn't reflect life in this country anymore.