Queer Profits

Profit (f)or the Public Good?

“…But, in fact, the origins of these demands, and indeed initial Cabinet discussions, cohere around concerns with widespread press exploitation and sensationalization of homosexual scandal. 81 Nonetheless, by August, Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe appointed the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution to undertake a comprehensive review of 'the law and practice relating to homosexual offences and the treatment of persons convicted of such offences by the courts' as well as a similar examination of prostitution.…”