Things have thankfully changed a lot since Stonewall. We offer this small Commons Sketch as an example.

Dreadnoughts fall silent on gay sex
By Simon Hoggart, The Guardian, February 1999 

Something significant happened in the Commons yesterday: homosexuality curled up and died as a political issue.
        The House was debating the proposed reduction of the gay age of consent to 16. In the past a flotilla of the Tory Dreadnought class of MPs would have put to sea, thunderously denouncing perverts and sodomites.
        As recently as last year, Nicholas Winterton said: "If God had intended men to commit sodomy, their bodies would have been built differently" - the "skeleton key" theory which, it struck me at the time , would make incest all right.
        But yesterday, as Jack Straw rose to move the second reading of the bill, there were only a handful of Tory back-benchers even there to listen.
        The Rev. Ian Paisley was present, but he had already made his views known. He declared that homosexuality was "unseemly and worthy of death", but added that according to the Bible "all sins are worthy of death", which presumably includes fare dodging.
        Mr Straw was calm, assured and precise, even rather flat. He might have been discussing rates of duty on imported butane cylinders. He has developed an agreeably hesitant style. "We think," he said at one point, "we don't know, but we think...." It's hard to be outraged against someone who is so eager to admit his own uncertainty.
        One or two Tories made vain attempts to harrumph. Desmond Swayne, the cad of the New Forest (I always imagine - no doubt unfairly - that he thinks it is the act of a true gentleman to ask a comely wench her surname, afterwards) declared that it was nonsense to suggest homosexuals had no choice in their sexuality. "People do have the choice to maintain self-discipline!" he said
        Gerald Howarth (Aldershot) announced that the bill was at variance with the Government's public support for the family. "You cannot have it both ways," he said, the nearest anyone got to a double entendre. But no one was laughing. There is no steam left in this debate.
        The shadow home secretary, Sir Norman Fowler, said that he was opposed to 16, but added hastily: "I hope I can be acquitted of being hostile to the gay community." (It would be unjust to say that this means: "We've just cottoned on that gays have votes too," so I won't.)

Joe Ashton was the MP who invented the other main section of the bill, the one which is designed to prevent abuse of trust against young people by all sexual predators.
        MPs always find Mr Ashton's speeches rather alarming. He tends to quote real life at them - disconcerting for people who tend to be more interested in fake statistics and inflexible ideology.
        Schools and councils, he said, were hiding cases of child abuse because they didn't want the bad publicity and they especially didn't want the compensation cases.
And what about a 16-year-old Sheffield girl who had been fed drugs by a pimp, then put on the streets and murdered by one of her customers?
        Mr Ashton's description of the misery and squalor of real abuse contrasted with the People's Friend moralising of some Tories.
        Or rather, very few Tories. Sean Woodward (Witney) made a long and passionate demand for gay equality which, he implied, was a human right as basic as being free from racism or slavery. He began with a tribute to Oscar Wilde which, I thought might cause him to burst into tears at his own oratory.
        Andrew Robathan interrupted to announce something new to me: that Oscar Wilde had paid for sex with underage boys in North Africa. "We should not make too much of Oscar Wilde's virtues," he added, to universal indifference.
        This topic has expired. You might as well try to repeal legislation on child chimney sweeps.