It is easy to love the arts and culture of the ’60s, but infinitely more difficult to square that love with the politics and the mores of the era. Those, like Last Night in Soho’s protagonist, who sigh that they were “born in the wrong decade” often forget that today, in the UK at least, homosexuality is no longer criminalised, it is no longer seen as harmless fun to harass women in the workplace, and no longer permissible to use racial slurs on television.
Source: Swinging London’s sexist and sinister side explored in BFI film season | Financial Times