How Much Do People Know About LGBT History?

How much do people know about LGBT History in the UK? I took to the streets to find out as I had strangers try to guess the dates on an LGBT timeline!

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1. What year were the Stonewall Riots?

2. When was homosexuality decriminalised in the UK?

3. When did it become illegal to discriminate in UK workplaces on the basis of sexuality?

4. When did it become illegal to discriminate in UK workplaces on the basis of being transgender?

5. When was the age of consent equalised to 16 for all sexualities in the UK?

6. When did Equal marriage become legal in the UK?

7. What year were gay and bisexual men freely allowed to donate blood in the UK?

8. What year did the UK Government lift the ban on lesbians and gay men serving in the Armed Forces?

9. Section 28 was a clause put into place that prohibited the "promotion of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship" - essentially preventing it from being discussed in UK schools. What year was Section 28 repealed?

10. What year did the World Health Organisation declassify being gay as a mental or behavioural illness?

11. What year did the World Health Organisation declassify being trans as a mental or behavioural illness?

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what are your guesses before watching?

1. What year were the Stonewall Riots?


2. When was homosexuality decriminalised in the UK?


3. When did it become illegal to discriminate in UK workplaces on the basis of sexuality?


4. When did it become illegal to discriminate in UK workplaces on the basis of being transgender?


5. When was the age of consent equalised to 16 for all sexualities in the UK?


6. When did Equal marriage become legal in the UK?


7. What year were gay and bisexual men freely allowed to donate blood in the UK?


8. What year did the UK Government lift the ban on lesbians and gay men serving in the Armed Forces?


9. Section 28 was a clause put into place that prohibited the "promotion of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship" - essentially preventing it from being discussed in UK schools. What year was Section 28 repealed?


10. What year did the World Health Organisation declassify being gay as a mental or behavioural illness?


11. What year did the World Health Organisation declassify being trans as a mental or behavioural illness?

[redmadhatter]

That one gay who knew that it's been 50 years since stonewall but still getting the wrong answer because they can't do maths is a mood

[nerdicorntheshipper]

"when was it made illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation?"
me: *cries in texan*

[grimmjowvsjaggerjack]

I immediately had all my money on The Son of Spice.

[hannahbevan]

I’m really glad for that man from Northern Ireland pointing out how slow NI has been in the promotion of equal rights for LGBT+ people. People often forget about NI and their draconian laws slip under the radar.

Hopefully the situation will change soon, as I believe equal marriage will be passed unless the NI government comes together again to stop it. Seeing as the NI government hasn’t been a thing for hundreds of days now, I don’t think that’ll happen.

[citruslatafolia]

How recent all of these were is shocking

[victoriavanderspek]

When a quiz on LGBT rights becomes a game of "Does this English person remember the North of Ireland"

[hannavignolo]

I generally am updated about trans issues but now I feel like a bad ally for not knowing that transness is not considered an illness anymore. But as an old lesbian, I got a lot of the other dates right, at least. Now, I need to study more!

[kohhna]

I love that theres a Northern Irish guy in the video going "well, actually if you count us all the dates need to be pushed forwards by a good bit, in fact we're still waiting for some of this stuff."

[satansenpai]

Wow, you know the US is behind when most of your answers for these in your country is "it wasn't"

[MatoWako]

Thanks for this, super informative. Here in Canada men who have sex with men are also forbidden from donating blood for three months after having sex with a man. This ban was indefinite until 2013, was five years until 2016 and then one year until a change earlier this year. Trans women who have not undergone a lower gender affirming surgery count are viewed as men by Canadian Blood Services (CBS) for the purposes of the bans. All of this is made even more disgusting because of how much of their budget CBS puts towards advertising the need for blood, while simultaneously rejecting and mistreating willing donors for bigoted reasons

[geekwithglasses]

I’m using this video when I create my LGBTQ+ club at school

[elenadesentis]

"i can't do maths" that's so gay of them

[eiqhties]

so glad that there’s a northern irish man on this, so sick of people yelling abt how progressive the uk is when northern ireland still doesnt have gay marriage (or abortion). moving to eng has really opened my eyes abt how oblivious and ill informed people really are on these things

[siginotmylastname]

I just realised something I'd like to add. The UK has also backtracked on any consideration of legally recognising non binary people, which affects our legal rights. It's hard to think you're protected from discrimination when the reason for that discrimination isn't recognised in law at all. This also means we can't get married as our actual genders. Although I think civil partnerships don't do this. And for trans people in general, in order to get married as your actual gender requires getting a gender recognition certificate, which I kid you not requires a panel of probably cis people to decide if you're trans enough and you to have had surgery(also a large fee) . This is why the vast majority of trans people don't apply for GRC's, and so can't get married as their actual genders.

[bills-beard]

This was such a well-structured, well presented and well-researched video. The Format was especially enjoyable, considering the tonal implications of the subject matter. Definitely sharing

[nadiar.]

I've been diving into a lot of videos from people of the LGBTQ+ community the last week. It has shown me so much about how we need to change our schools (I teach biology in the Netherlands). I always thought I was pretty open about LGBTQ+ during my classes, but turns out I missed so many seemingly simple things that should obviously be taught in school. But it just never crossed my mind. So I am definity going to discuss this in our biology group and I will probably use this timeline concept in my classes ❤

[miaththered]

So 1969 (Stonewall), 1992 (WHO) and literally this year (WHO again). Only ones I knew.

[bcheeseey]

christel dee! It's christel dee! From the Doctor Who fan show! Christel dee! :DD

[bunnyfeng]

"I feel like a really bad gay" (15:56) is a mood.