
Wolfenden Report, ‘Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Great Britain’
A landmark report published in 1957 paving the way for decriminalisation of same-sex activity in England and Wales in 1967.
This report, the second edition to an original published in 2016, considers the history, extent and nature of laws criminalising consensual sexual intimacy between women, and the anti-LGBT criminal laws of all varieties that foster and perpetuate homophobia against lesbian and bisexual women as a particular group.
A landmark report published in 1957 paving the way for decriminalisation of same-sex activity in England and Wales in 1967.
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