LGBT Rights Northern Ireland, Uned Kgdom: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
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NORTHERN IRELAND GAY RIGHTS ASSOCIATN
Northern Ireland was left out of the Sexual Offenc Act 1967 and sex between men remaed illegal until the Homosexual Offenc (Northern Ireland) Orr 1982 which set an age of nsent of 21, the same as the rt of the UK at that time.
There had been a prev attempt at crimalisatn, via the draft Homosexual Offenc (Northern Ireland) Orr 1978, but this had failed bee "a substantial body of opn" the provce was opposed to . The change was a rult of the judgement the European Court of Human Rights se of Dudgeon v Uned Kgdom (1981) which the ECtHR held that a prohibn on homosexual acts was a breach of Article 8 of the Conventn. The age of nsent for gay male sexual nduct was lowered to 18 unr the Crimal Jtice and Public Orr Act 1994 so as to be le wh England and Wal).
The age of nsent was lowered aga to 17 for gay male sexual nduct to be le wh heterosexual and lbian sexual nduct, by the Sexual Offenc (Amendment) Act 2000, Sectn 1.