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Shake-Up in Gay Sex Laws

London Evening Standard, June 20, 2002
This Is London, 60 Charlotte Street, London W1P 2AX U.K. England
Email: letters@standard.co.uk

By Ben Leapman

A Victorian law stopping homosexual men picking up partners in public will be scrapped in a review of sex crime legislation.

Home Secretary David Blunkett will announce in the autumn that he wants to abolish the offences of gross indecency, buggery and soliciting by men, all outlawed under an Act of Parliament passed in 1888. He said they were "old, outdated laws".

At the same time, tougher laws will be introduced against rapists and paedophiles.


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