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In August 1971 young members of the Gay Liberation Front organised a public rally in London to protest at the age of consent for gay men. [15] In April 1972, the Society of Friends Social Responsibility Council (a Quaker conference), passed a resolution in favour of lowering the age of consent in Britain from 16 to 14.
The age of consent in Slovenia is 15, as specified by the Slovenian Penal Code, Article 173, Section 1, which reads: "(1) Whoever has sexual intercourse or performs any lewd act with a person of the same or opposite sex under the age of fifteen (15) years where there is a marked discrepancy between the maturity of the perpetrator and that of ...
The Sexual Offences Act 2003 lowered the age of consent for certain sexual activities from 18 to 16 in England and Wales. Section 45 defines a "child" for the purposes of the Protection of Children Act 1978 as a person under 18 years, rather than under 16 years, of age.
Stonewall continued to challenge the unequal age of consent for homosexual and bisexual men until the equal age of consent of 16-years-old was finally secured in 2001. [274] Stonewall continues to fight for LGBT equality, particularly in sport, education and the workplace. [275] The Gay Black Group were founded in 1981 in London.
1994 – The Conservative Member of Parliament Edwina Currie introduced an amendment to lower the age of consent for homosexual acts, from 21 to 16 in line with that for heterosexual acts. [120] The vote was defeated and the gay male age of consent was instead lowered to 18. The lesbian age of consent was not set.
No subsequent reconsideration of the issue of male homosexuality in statutory law took place in England and Wales until the late 1970s. In 1979, the Home Office Policy Advisory Committee's Working Party report Age of Consent in relation to Sexual Offences recommended that the age of consent for homosexual acts should be 18. This was rejected at ...
Age of consent for MSM becomes 18: 1997: Angela Eagle becomes first openly lesbian MP: 1998: Bolton 7 found guilty: 1998: Lord Alli becomes first openly gay Lord: 1999: Admiral Duncan bombing: 2000: Gay men allowed in HM Armed Forces: 2001: Age of consent equalised to 16: 2001: MSM activity involving multiple men legal: 2002: Same sex couples ...
The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts and is thus the minimum age of a person with whom another person is legally permitted to engage in sexual activity. The distinguishing aspect of the age of consent laws is that the person below the minimum age is regarded as the ...