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If you were gay there was nowhere to go and no one to talk to, there was no other gay person as far as I knew. “So to come back to school for the first time in 50 years and see this is heartening, to see that as a nation we have so rapidly grown up. “When I was 29 it was illegal for me to make love, I had a boyfriend and we slept together but the law said that we should be in prison. “It was very hard to walk out in the street and say to him don’t touch me or brush your hand against mine, there may be a police man around the corner.