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"Pretended" Family Relationships

This series was a response to the notorious "Clause 28", that was instituted during the Thatcher years within local government in the UK that forbid the representation of homosexual relationships as "pretended family relationships."

It had a far reaching effect as productions across many art forms depended upon venues and funding from local authorities. It also mobilised a vigorous response from the gay and lesbian community as it brought men and women together.

The form of the pieces was made up of a portrait of an unnamed couple, a poem by my then partner Stephen Dodd and section of an image shot at the various demonstrations against the Clause in London.
  • Home
  • Photography
    • Arrival
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part I
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part II
    • Helmut Lang Christopher Street
    • Sun City
    • The New Pre-Raphaelites
    • Love, Undetectable
    • Women in Love
    • Stockwell
    • Mr Malhotra's Party
    • Country: Portrait of an Indian Village
    • Imagining Childhood
    • Love and Light
    • Tales of a City: Delhi
    • Homelands
    • From Here to Eternity
    • Trespass 3
    • Trespass 2
    • Trespass 1
    • "Pretended" Family Relationships
    • Exiles
    • Lovers: Ten Years On
    • Reflections of the Black Experience
    • Asians in Bradford
    • London 1982
    • Christopher Street, New York 1976
    • Friends & Lovers: Coming Out in Montréal in the 1970s
    • Social Security
  • Books
    • London 1982
    • Lovers Ten Years On
    • Queer
    • Come Out
    • We Were Here : Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference
    • From Here To Eternity
    • Christopher Street
    • Delhi: Communities of Belonging
    • Pictures From Here
    • Disrupted Borders
    • Trespass 1
    • Wish You Were Here
    • An Economy of Signs
    • Sunil Gupta Monograph, Autograph,
    • Ecstatic Antibodies
  • Fundraiser For Book
  • Shop
    • Limited Edition Prints
    • Books For Sale
  • Video
  • Curating
    • Stevie Bezencenet
    • Joy Gregory
    • Same Difference
    • The New Republics
    • Simryn Gill
    • Divine Facades
    • Fernando Arias
  • Newsletters
    • 2025
    • 2024 Archive
    • 2023 Archive
  • Columns
    • A Return from Exile
    • Relative Values
    • The End of Marriage
    • A Laying on of Hands
    • City of Dreams
    • Oral History
    • Pride and Prejudice
  • Press
  • About
  • Contact