Someone posted this on YouTube today.
It's the bit from Margaret Thatcher's speech to the 1987 Conservative Party Conference speech where she talks about "children... being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay" - with appropriate comments.
Warning: Might leave you speechless.
The whole speech, delivered when she was at the height of her pomp and evil powers, is but of course equally awful - the full transcript is here.
Here's a little history of Section 28 and Tory homophobia during the Thatcher years by some fellow called Richard Smith.
And here is another anti-revisionist gay take on Thatcher from Paul Canning, in part remembering Lesbians And Gay Men Support The Miners.
Update: Fears for the future of irony as Brighton 'Maggie Death Party' organiser gets death threats (via the Argus).
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I am a blogger who was referred your way when I wondered 'who really was Mrs. Thatcher?" I thank you for posting this - and your blog is indeed worthwhile to revisit.
ReplyDeleteCheers Richard.
ReplyDeleteI think Huffpost reads you btw, they picked the video up. I just noticed via Towleroad.
I wonder how someone like Matthew Parris, who I quite like, can talk about Thatcher putting her hand on his knee and saying "There, there, that can't have been very difficult to say" when he spoke to her about the Tory party's anti-gay stance, as being a sign of her good nature, when she stood up and said shit like that at Conference.
ReplyDeleteShe was either completely two-faced or they're trying to mold her into someone she clearly wasn't.
See the Chris Bryant piece above...
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DeleteSuit yourself.
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