EastEnders star claims BBC cut the soap’s first gay romance because of the government’s anti-LGBT+ Section 28

A former EastEnders actor has said that a planned gay storyline in the 1980s was scrapped due to the anti-LGBT+ Section 28 law. The discriminatory Section 28 prohibited local authorities from promoting homosexuality in England, Scotland and Wales, and was enacted in 1988. While the legislation only directly related to...