Expungg nvictns for gay sex: an old wrong is fally righted

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

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. “Now that parliament has repealed those laws, has a duty to wipe away the terrible stas which they placed, que wrongly, on the reputatns of untls gay people over the centuri. Many gay people who were the victims of past jtice are exclud om them.

NEW ZEALAND PASS LAW TO CLEAR HISTORIL GAY SEX NVICTNS

In a matter of weeks, legislatn will be place to enable thoands of gay people to whom grave harm was done to wipe their rerds clean. “We are lighted that our long mpaign will at last brg many gay people, both livg and ceased, the rtutn they serve.

The New Zealand parliament on Tuday night unanimoly passed a bill that is expected to allow about 1, 000 men to apply to have past nvictns for homosexual activy removed om their crimal rerds. Homosexualy was crimalized New Zealand 1986, but men who were nvicted before that date still have the nvictns on their the new law, fay members will also be able to apply to have the crimal rerds of a ceased relative cleared.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

"I would like to apologize aga to all the men and members of the rabow muny who have been affected by the prejudice, stigma and other negative effects ed by nvictns for historil homosexual offenc, " Jtice Mister Andrew Ltle said.