article_snippet.sent: The singer, who has a large gay fanbase, offended fans who reminded Margaret Thatcher that Margaret Thatcher enacted legislation that banned 'promoting' homosexuality in 1988.
article_snippet.sent: Conservative Thatcher, who led the country from 1979 until 1990, established Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 – a legislation that was considered anti-gay and later overturned in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: Section 28 was introduced against a backdrop of councils promoting gay relationships in schools and the rise of AIDS.
article_snippet.sent: Section 28 banned councils from using taxpayers' money to fund books, plays, leaflets, films or any other material showing gay relationships as normal and 'promoting the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'.
article_snippet.sent: Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was introduced under Thatcher’s rule and was a legislation that was considered anti-gay.
article_snippet.sent: It was brought in against a backdrop of councils promoting gay relationships in schools and the rise of AIDS.