Our collective change of attitude to homosexuality.

The whole atmosphere surrounding our collective attitude to homosexuality, has in my life time change beyond all recognition. Thankfully we in Britain, live in a now more enlightened political and moral world. Not so for many parts of the world like in Africa, and in many Islamic counties like Saudi Arabia, where I think the 'death penalty' can still be exercised for those caught practising homosexuality. The old Soviet Union erroneously claimed there were no homosexuals in that Socialist society, they only exist in the degenerate west. So I read with great pleasure the article today by Mathew Parris in The Times how he and a small group of like minded homosexuals, including the actor Sir Ian McKellen, in the late seventies campaigned for justice under the rule of law. The antediluvian attitude of the then Conservative government run by Mrs Thatcher - was very reactionary. Mathew Parris was very generous in his praise of the British public, for being ahead of the politicians in their more enlightened and less prejudiced attitude.