A closeted teacher navigates Thatcher's Britain in big-hearted debut Blue Jean

★★★★★ A closeted teacher navigates Thatcher's Britain in big-hearted debut Blue Jean 🖋️ francescasteele

It’s 1988 and Bad Boys Blue is belting out on the radio, as is growing agitation over proposed– legislation under Margaret Thatcher’s government that would prohibit the promotion of homosexuality in schools.

However, at work, she keeps her new life hidden. “You don’t know what it’s like for me,” she tells butch Viv, who wears her sexuality loud and proud and is impatient with Jean’s seeming refusal to do the same.

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