I couldn’t agree more with your comments about education.

I remain unconvinced that we are actually a more tolerant society. I think we are angrier and intolerant about many things – just different ones that’s all. There was certainly more mutual respect and consideration then. Homophobia as we understand it didn’t really exist because homosexuality was a criminal offence, so few people were aware of it and those that were regarded “queers” as just that or “nancy boys” but I don’t think there was revulsion. The Wildeblood case brought everything to the public gaze for the first time and of course was the touch paper for the changing attitudes towards homosexuality over the following decades. And of course homosexuals were, thankfully, not “gay”, then. The effeminate music hall comedian, now called “camp” has been laughed at and loved for decades.