‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay men

Northern Ireland carved a grim reputation for homophobia for over half a century, a record of intolerance and bigotry so baroque it was turned into an opera. In the 1970s, Ian Paisley, the leader of the Democratic Unionist party () and Free Presbyterian church, led a “save Ulster from sodomy” crusa...

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