Lgbtq+ civil rights The progression of the UKx27;s LGBTQx2B; civil rights movementCivil rights movements tend to move at a snails pace, however the speed of change and overall changes of public opinion of LGBTQ issues has come on leaps and bounds. The pendulum has swung from homosexuality being essentially illegal in the early twentieth century, to the UK having one of the most queer governments in the world and close-to equal rights between queer and hetero people.