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 “Now that parliament has repealed those laws, has a duty to wipe away the terrible stas which they placed, que wrongly, on the reputatns of untls gay people over the centuri.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.

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.

NEW ZEALAND PASS LAW TO CLEAR HISTORIL GAY SEX NVICTNS

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.

"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.

"This bill sends a clear signal that discrimatn agast gay people is no longer acceptable, and that we are mted to puttg right wrongs om the past, " Ltle nvictns that n be erased relate to three offenc that were removed 1986 — sodomy, cency between mal and keepg a place of rort for homosexual acts, and two om 1908 volvg "unnatural offenc" mted wh another male. Applints would have to show that, on the balance of probabili, the sexual nduct they were nvicted of is no longer illegal, which will generally volve an asssment of whether the activy was nsensual and volved adults over the age of bill was first troduced unr the former Natnal-led ernment July 2017 by then-Jtice Mister Amy Adams, who apologized to New Zealand men who had been nvicted for homosexual Zealand passed laws banng discrimatn agast gay people 1993, and 2013 beme the first untry the Asia-Pacific regn to legalize same-sex new legislatn follows the footsteps of the Uned Kgdom, which last year enacted "Turg's Law, " providg a blanket posthumo pardon to some 50, 000 men who were nvicted unr old laws the U. Turg and renowned wrer Osr Wil are arguably the most famo people to be nvicted of homosexual acts the U.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

; Wil was imprisoned for two years and left jail poor health, dyg wh a few years of his Atralian stat of New South Wal, Victoria and South Atralia have also quashed historil nvictns for homosexual activy, and 2017, Germany erased the nvictns of 50, 000 gay men who were nvicted unr a Nazi-era law, and also offered fancial pensatn to some article origally appeared on Its ntent was created separately to USA TODAY.

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 nvictns for gay sex that were rerd before the crimalisatn of homosexualy the UK.

This week, the Victorian parliament passed the Sentencg Amendment (Historil Homosexual Convictns Expungement) Bill 2014, and MPs om both sis of polics acknowledged the role that article played raisg awarens of this issue and ultimately leadg to long-overdue law reform. The negative impact of nvictns for gay sex are beg felt today, more than ever. and untls other gay men.