Another offering from UK Channel 4's 50 Shades of Gay season.
Britain’s shameful history of denigrating, oppressing and deceiving gay citizens is explored in a documentary marking half a century since the Sexual Offenses Act 1967. That was rightly hailed as a victory, but it only partly decriminalized homosexuality; this year’s "Turing's Law" promised atonement, but in practice only a tiny minority of those convicted have been pardoned. The film tells the story of four men whose lives have been blighted by State discrimination.
Although this is in many ways a profoundly sad documentary and a story which needed to be told in its shaming and indicting of the British State, it is also uplifting to see that some of these man got their lives back, not least 94 years old George Montague who continues to campaign tirelessly for his demand that the British Government apologize to him and all other men convicted for behavior no longer deemed to be criminal. For him, a Pardon is not good enough; only an Apology will be sufficient. He's 100% correct, too!
