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00:42In January 1981, a fire in a South London house would take the lives of 13 children.
00:49The fire, the great, it's one of the great focal points of black history in Great Britain.
01:06The tragedy would spark a wave of protest and it would be a turning point in the story which began
01:13with the arrival of the Empire Windrush back in 1948.
01:30I've heard this has something to do with the National Front.
01:33Hey, listen now, this is against blacks, isn't it?
01:35Well, you can have my name.
01:38Yeah, right.
01:38Philip, your friends are black.
01:42National Front, shitter.
01:45We know about unemployment all right. In fact, we are fed up with hearing how depressed we all are.
01:50When you got married, were you consciously aware of the fact that you were marrying somebody with homosexuals?
01:56No. I was marrying somebody I loved and that was it.
02:00There was no question of somebody being different because they're homosexual.
02:06I mean, a homosexual man is the same as any other man, except this one particular thing is slightly different.
02:15I think that was one of the things that surprised me so much about other people's attitudes to it after
02:23the court case.
02:25But it was something they simply could not understand, that somebody could be gifted, talented, charming, lovable, and at the
02:34same time a homosexual.
02:35I think that most lesbians would prefer to conceal the fact that they are lesbians because of their jobs.
02:41Yes, because they're not accepted.
02:44I think that if more people did have the courage to, I mean, don't go about with a great big
02:51placard on, I am a lesbian.
02:54But if any friend asked them, or if they heard a discussion and lesbians were in one firm I worked
03:04for, there was a discussion.
03:06And I got hot and bothered because of things that were said and flared up in defence.
03:12And they said, oh, wait, what do you think you were a lesbian yourself?
03:16And I said, well, I am. What are you going to do about it?
03:19Men who choose to love other men are treated not only with intolerance and contempt, but prosecuted and jailed.
03:26As a result, they become vulnerable to violence, blackmail, and persecution.
03:31The parliament has been asked to consider a private member's bill to remove that constant threat by legalising homosexual acts
03:37between consenting adults and private.
03:40But a change in the law doesn't guarantee a change in attitude by the rest of us.
03:44For many of us this is revolting, men dancing with men.
03:49Homosexuals in this country today break the law.
04:21Homosexuals is destroyed.
04:21Hom JOSHI
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