Almost two years ago, The Conversatn published an article, “Wipg the slate clean: historic nvictns for gay sex mt be expunged”. The article discsed the Brish ernment’s mov to remove…
Contents:
- DISREGARDS AND PARDONS FOR HISTORIL GAY SEX NVICTNS
- NEW ZEALAND PASS LAW TO CLEAR HISTORIL GAY SEX NVICTNS
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
DISREGARDS AND PARDONS FOR HISTORIL GAY SEX NVICTNS
* historical gay convictions *
Any nvictn that was imposed on someone purely due to nsensual homosexual activy unr now-abolished laws will be clud a scheme aimed at “rightg the wrongs of the past”, the UK home secretary is set to Patel said more people would have nvictns for same-sex sexual activy wiped om their rerds, as she sought to expand the ernment’s disregards and pardons scheme om a narrow set of laws. ”She thanked Lord Cashman and Lord Lexn for raisg the Lexn, a Conservative peer, said earlier this year was “an afont to gay people” that the scheme had not been non-affiliated peer Cashman said November: “The disregard and pardon schem England and Wal are signifintly flawed bee they enpass only a small actn of the laws that, over the s and centuri, have immiserated the liv of gay and bisexual people” the time, he highlighted how “the offence of solicatn by men, which was ed to entrap gay and bisexual men, sometim for dog nothg more than chattg up another adult man” would not have been clud the origal a statement, the peers and Prof Pl Johnson – who had also worked on the mpaign – weled the said: “For five years, the three of have been workg together on behalf of gay people the armed forc and civilian life, who suffered grave jtice bee of cel laws which discrimated agast them the past.
NEW ZEALAND PASS LAW TO CLEAR HISTORIL GAY SEX NVICTNS
“Now that parliament has repealed those laws, has a duty to wipe away the terrible stas which they placed, que wrongly, on the reputatns of untls gay people over the centuri.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
Many gay people who were the victims of past jtice are exclud om them.