When Love Was A Crime...
TV Times|July 22,2017

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When Love Was A Crime...

Few people will recognise the name Peter Wildeblood these days, but 60 years ago, he was instrumental in changing the lives of every gay man in the country.

In the 1950s, journalist Peter was the only openly gay man to give evidence to a government committee chaired by Lord Wolfenden, and its findings led to the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, which decriminalised homosexual acts in private between men over 21 in England and Wales.

This story is from the July 22,2017 edition of TV Times.

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