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‘Blue Jean’: Don’t say gay in Thatcher-era English drama

Por: The Boston Globe Entertainment June 22, 2023

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Though it takes place in 1988, “Blue Jean” couldn’t be more timely. Writer-director Georgia Oakley places her semi-closeted lesbian schoolteacher protagonist, Jean (Rosy McEwen), in the era of Section 28, passed by the government of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The law, in effect from 1988 to 2003, prohibited “the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities” and in schools.Section 28 was organized homophobia presented... + full article



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