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The Homosexual Law Reform Society was an organisation that campaigned in the United Kingdom for changes in the laws that criminalised homosexual relations between men.
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In 1958 he was, along with Bertrand Russell, one of a group of notables to establish the Homosexual Law Reform Society.
* 1986 – The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
For many years Robinson also worked as legal advisor for the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform with future Trinity College senator David Norris.
Coincidentally, just as Mary McAleese replaced Mary Robinson as Reid Professor of Law in Trinity, and would succeed her to the Irish presidency, so Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.
* The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform succeeds in having the Irish sodomy law reformed.
Other fourth Labour government innovations included greater recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi through the Waitangi Tribunal, Homosexual Law Reform, the Constitution Act 1986 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights.
Before the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986, the Salvation Army was active throughout the country gathering signatures for a petition seeking to prevent the bill's passing.
Intertwining his religious and political views, " Save Ulster from Sodomy " was a campaign launched by Paisley in 1977, in opposition to the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform ( Northern Ireland ), established in 1974.
* Homosexual Law Reform Society
During the same decade she was legal advisor to and a founding member of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.
Founder of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, he is also a prominent member of the Church of Ireland.
The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was an organisation set up to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
It was short-lived, but two of the splinter organizations formed on campus were the Dublin University Gay Society, the first long-term LGBT rights organization in Ireland, and a group of law students known as the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.
* Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 – legalised homosexual relations
Homophile organizations elsewhere include Arcadie ( 1954 ) in France and the British Homosexual Law Reform Society ( founded 1958 ).
* Homosexual Law Reform Society ( 1958 – 1970 when it was renamed as the Sexual Law Reform Society ).
* The Homosexual Law Reform Society ( 1965 – 1969 )
Liberalisation has been championed by figures like Mary Robinson, a radical feminist senator who became President of Ireland, and David Norris, who led the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.
* Against the Law: The Classic Account of a Homosexual in 1950s Britain Peter Wildeblood, Matthew Parris ( introduction ) ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999 ) ISBN 0-297-64382-7
* In New Zealand, the Homosexual Law Reform Act equalizes the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16, the legal age for heterosexual acts.
Young retired from parliament at the 1990 election, although not before another homosexual law reform bill ( promoted by Labour's Fran Wilde ), the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986, was successfully passed.
In December 2004 Independent Senator David Norris, who had been central to the 1970s and 1980s Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform tabled a Private Member's Bill on Civil Partnerships in the Seanad.
Sir Peter L. Tait ( 5 September 1915 – 1996 ) was a New Zealand National Party Member of Parliament, Napier mayor, small businessman and opponent of New Zealand's Homosexual Law Reform Act.
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Ultimately, though, the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed its final reading.
The church also became involved heavily in social conservative political activism against the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1984, the establishment of Lyndhurst Hospital ( a free-standing abortion clinic ) in Christchurch, and passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986.
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" In 1961, Donald Webster Cory published his landmark The Homosexual in America, exclaiming, " Society has handed me a mask to wear ... Everywhere I go, at all times and before all sections of society, I pretend.
The DOB advertised itself as " A Woman's Organization for the purpose of Promoting the Integration of the Homosexual into Society.
* The Mattachine Society ( 1950 – 1987 ) and the Mattachine Review ( 1955 – 1966 ); Homosexual Citizen, ( published by the Washington chapter, 1966 –?
The Homosexual and His Society: A View from Within.
In July 1967 he wrote to Antony Grey, who was secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society ( HLRS ) in London.
CHE grew out of the North Western branch of the Homosexual Law Reform Society ( HLRS ), the North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee ( NWHLRC ).
After the Sexual Offences Act 1967 came into force, the London-based Homosexual Law Reform Society was thought by many to have achieved its aims.
The correspondence that this letter generated helped bring together supporters of the Wolfenden Report and this led to the Homosexual Law Reform Society being founded on 12 May 1958 with members including Victor Gollancz, Stephen Spender, and MP Kenneth Younger.
Advertisements inviting people who supported the Wolfenden Report to contact the Homosexual Law Reform Society resulted in Tony Dyson being joined by Antony Grey, businessman Nigel Bryant and architect Duncan Wright.
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The Albany Trust was founded in the United Kingdom as a registered charity in May 1958 to complement the Homosexual Law Reform Society ( HLRS ).
Amongst Gay News's early " Special Friends " were Graham Chapman of Monty Python's Flying Circus, his partner David Sherlock, and Antony Grey, secretary of the UK Homosexual Law Reform Society from 1962 to 1970.
On March 28, 1969 in San Francisco, Leo Laurence ( the editor of Vector, magazine of the United States ' largest homophile organization, the Society for Individual Rights ) called for " the Homosexual Revolution of 1969 ," exhorting gay men and lesbians to Join the Black Panthers and other left-wing groups and to " come out " en masse.
Noel Annan was also a signatory to the famous letter published in The Times in 1958 which saw the establishment of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, a group who fought for homosexual law reform.
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On July 22, 2010, a " Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews with a Homosexual Orientation in Our Community " was released.
Evelyn Hooker in 1957 published “ The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual ”, which found that " homosexuals were not inherently abnormal and that there was no difference between homosexual and heterosexual men in terms of pathology.
Charles Socarides ’ s first book, The Overt Homosexual, was published in 1968.
Homosexual behaviour was also documented among soldiers at the front.
Donald Webster Cory writes in The Homosexual in America ( 1951 ) that " Psychoanalysts have informed me that their homosexual patients were calling themselves gay in the nineteen-twenties, and certainly by the nineteen-thirties it was the most common word in use by homosexuals themselves.
The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution ( better known as the Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee ) was published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu, Michael Pitt-Rivers and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.
ILGA was founded as the International Gay Association ( IGA ) on 8 August 1978 during the conference of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality in Coventry, England, at a meeting attended by 30 men representing 17 organisations from 14 countries.
Homosexual sex was decriminalised by an act of parliament in 1993.
He was told that Texas's anti-sodomy statute, the " Homosexual Conduct " law, made it a Class C misdemeanor if someone " engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex ".
" Because his statements characterized homosexual acts as " impure and unnatural " and implied that individuals can choose not to engage in Homosexual behaviors, a petition was submitted to LDS Church headquarters on October 12, 2010 by the gay activist organization, Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ).
Evelyn Hooker ( September 2, 1907 – November 18, 1996 ) was an American psychologist most notable for her 1957 paper " The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual " in which she administered several psychological tests to groups of self-identified homosexuals and heterosexuals and asked experts to identify the homosexuals.
When he learned that the Out article was to be published, Terry pre-empted Jamiel by writing an essay, My Prodigal Son, the Homosexual, in which he writes of pain and disappointment, blames Jamiel's homosexuality and other troubles on his childhood experiences, and contends that much of the Out Magazine article is false and was written by other people.
In 1964, a New Year's Eve benefit event was held for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
On other issues he was more moderate, being a member of the Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality for a time ( he resigned over a controversial article which suggested that Prince Charles should embrace Prince Edward in order to advance their campaign ).
Headlining the campaign was the slogan, " Corporate America is Being BLACKMAILED by the Radical Homosexual Agenda ".
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