Section 28
Clause 28 (including Section 28) was a legislative extension of the Local Government Act 1986 of the United Kingdom during the period of conservative parliamentary majority under Margaret Thatcher, which was adopted in parliament on 24 May 1988.
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The law was introduced by David Wilshire and received vehement support of Jill Knight. It forbade municipalities, schools and local authorities the " promotion of homosexuality ", which had as a consequence that in all areas of public life only allowed to be reported negatively about homosexuality. This led to a mobilization of the lesbian and gay movement in the UK, which saw a censorship measure in the law. Due to the extensive powers of the British local authorities feared it influences on the social security, the housing office, the local health service, school, colleges, libraries and youth groups, financing advisory and assistance projects, funding numerous theaters, cinemas and art galleries, licensing and leases for cafes, Local and clubs, making available of meeting rooms for festivals and rallies, exclusion from seeking advice on lesbian gay counseling and self-help institutions. Rules for equality and against discrimination were also no longer possible. Self-censorship in schools, lack of action against discrimination and the suppression of the possibility that homosexuality could be advertised as a way of life in order understanding, were feared. The Labour government under Tony Blair undertook from 2000 attempts to abolish the law, which ultimately did not happen until the Local Government Act 2003, which gained legal force on 18 September 2003 and entered into force on 18 November 2003.
The Bavarian Interior Ministry State Secretary Peter Gauweiler called in 1988 in connection with AIDS a "program against national decadence, as Margaret Thatcher has formulated. "