Homosexuality decriminalised

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‘Skinhead Dickens’ diesJames Moffat, the Canadian ‘pulp’ author dubbed ‘the skinhead Dickens’, died on this day in 1993.

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