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Gay rights: Life under Section 28
30 years ago Section 28 was introduced. It was a clause of a local government act to stop the "promotion" of homosexuality. No one was successfully prosecuted under the act.
The gay writer and journalist Matthew Todd, who was editor at Attitude magazine for many years, was at school in those days and looks back at the effect it had.
(Image: Silhouette of schoolboy, Credit: ´óÏó´«Ã½)
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