Criminalistion of LGBTs

Thursday 27 July is 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act

Anti-gay laws remained on the statute book, arrests rocketed

But pardon has connotations of forgiveness for a wrong done

MP John Nicolson’s Sexual Offences (Pardons etc) Bill to be debated on Friday

Overturn convictions under all anti-gay laws, not just gross indecency

Call for full inquiry into the scientist’s death

Chief Constables urged to review samples already taken

Men convicted of repealed offences threatened with arrest