The Scottish Minorities Group: Glad to Be Gay?
The public access TV programme opens its doors to the Scottish Minorities Group, which works for the rights and welfare of gay men and women. (1976)
The public access TV programme opens its doors to the Scottish Minorities Group, which works for the rights and welfare of gay men and women. Members of the organisation discuss the advice and facilities available to gay men and lesbians in Edinburgh and explain what it means for them to have access to like-minded people who can understand their problems. The group has won support from politicians Robin Cook and Malcolm Rifkind in their campaign to change the law in Scotland, which still treats male homosexuality as a criminal offence. (1976)
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Although homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967, this did not happen in Scotland until 1980. In Northern Ireland, the law was changed in 1982, while this took a further decade on the Isle of Man. The age of consent for male homosexuals in Scotland was lowered to 18 in 1995.
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This came a year after it was reduced to 18 in England and Wales as a compromise over a failed attempt to set a uniform age of consent at 16 (the existing age for heterosexuals). Although further efforts to create an equal age of consent were overruled by the House of Lords, this was eventually achieved across the UK in 2000.
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