Feb 28 Sexual Offences Act 1967

Feb 28 Sexual Offences Act 1967. The decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK was a gradual and uneven process shaped by law, scandal, activism and social change. Male homosexual acts had been criminalised in England since the Buggery Act of 1533. The 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act widened the net through the offence of “gross […]