Homosexuality decriminalised

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Teenage Hague lights up conferenceOn this day in 1977, at the age of 16, William Hague made his first speech at the Conservative Party Conference and achieved national notoriety as the archetypal ‘Tory Boy’.

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Blue PeterBlue Peter, the world’s longest-running children’s television programme, was first broadcast on this day in 1958.

Royal Assent was given to the Sexual Offences Act on this day in 1967, effectively decriminalising private homosexual acts between consenting adults over 21 years of age. Read on...

Dirk Bogarde (right) played a homosexual victim of blackmail