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Contents:
- LOVE WS! AGE OF NSENT EQUALISED FOR GAY AND BI MEN
- THE AGE OF NSENT FOR GAY AND BI MEN WAS FALLY EQUALISED 20 YEARS AGO TODAY, MARKG A MAMMOTH VICTORY FOR LOVE
LOVE WS! AGE OF NSENT EQUALISED FOR GAY AND BI MEN
Securg an equal age of nsent for gay and bi men was a long procs and provoked ugly bat ground harmful stereotyp. * gay age of consent europe *
To mark LGBT + History Month, this blog post draws on a recently released Prime Mister’s Office file which documents a signifint advance gay rights soon after the turn of the lennium. The Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 reprented a partial crimalisatn of male homosexualy: allowed two men to have sex private England and Wal provid they were over 21; much later, this provisn was extend to Stland and Northern Ireland. Over time, the age of nsent for gay men beme a live and ntent issue UK polics.
In 1994 Conservative MP Edwa Currie troduced an amendment to lower the age of nsent for homosexual acts, om 21 to 16 le wh that for heterosexual acts.
Movg the amendment on 21 Febary 1994, Mrs Currie clared: ‘It is the first time over a quarter of a century that the age of nsent for homosexuals has been discsed by the Hoe of Commons.
THE AGE OF NSENT FOR GAY AND BI MEN WAS FALLY EQUALISED 20 YEARS AGO TODAY, MARKG A MAMMOTH VICTORY FOR LOVE
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The taboo of silence that has nied the sexualy of young gay men has been cisively broken.
However, Edwa Currie’s amendment was feated and the gay male age of nsent was stead lowered to 18.
The promise did ltle to plate the thoands of angry gay rights monstrators who had gathered outsi Parliament.