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Beyond The Law by Charles Upchurch – Gay Book Review

14/03/2023 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

This book was reviewed in the North Philly Notes in November 2021.  This review is comprehensive, as is the book, so I am reprinting the review to remind our readers of this history we have lived through, and why it is so important that we monitor government, both local and national, to ensure we do not loose all the gains we have made.

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This week in North Philly Notes, Charles Upchurch, author of “Beyond the Law,” writes about the first public debate in the Commons over the ethics of punishing sex between men.

Beyond The Law

The first sustained debate in the British Parliament (and likely in any parliament anywhere) over the ethics of punishing sex between men occurred 180 years ago and no one has remembered it—at least until now. That’s the premise of “Beyond the Law,” which explains how and why this happened. Most historians think this time frame is far too early for anything like this to have occurred, since it is too early for modern sexual identities to have formed, let alone for there to have been a political effort organized around them. But a modern homosexual identity is not needed to have an ethical objection to the execution of individuals for a private consensual act, which is what sodomy was in some cases. In the first decades of the nineteenth century, the law allowed for such executions. While many upper- and middle-class men did publicly rail against sodomy as “the worst of crimes” and supported the executions, others, drawing on enlightenment philosophy or more latitudinarian religious ideas, thought such executions were more immoral, perhaps far more immoral, than the acts themselves. These men included Lord John Russell, leader of the Whig majority in the House of Commons, who eventually argued against executions for sodomy in 1841, even as he kept the government at a distance from the private member’s bill that was the focus of the reform effort.

Russell, like almost every other politician of his era, did not want to publicly speak about sex between men, but broader events were forcing him and the government to do so. That was because the death penalty was being eliminated for hundreds of crimes. Up to the start of the nineteenth century, it was the terror of the gallows that was to scare individuals away from committing crime. Theft of even small amounts might be punished with death, since there had previously been only minimal systems for policing or imprisonment. But that policing and incarceration infrastructure was created in the early nineteenth century, and the number of capital crimes tumbled, so that by the end of the 1830s there were only slightly more than a dozen. Those capital crimes included murder, attempted murder, treason, piracy, rape, a few minor crimes that were missed by previous reform legislation, and sodomy, which could be a private consensual act. With the death penalty now gone for almost everything else, the anomaly of retaining it for sodomy was glaring for many. But almost no man wanted to be the person who stood up on the floor of the House of Commons to argue for the lessening of the penalties for sex between men, knowing that some of the most evangelical members of that body would likely denounce them for defending immorality (as did eventually happen).

The reform effort did happen, though, and two exceptional men stepped forward to shepherd the bill through the Commons in a process that played out over the better part of a year. They had the prestige of Jeremy Bentham behind them since, contrary to what has been written by other scholars, Bentham published some of his arguments against the punishment of sex between men in his lifetime. He did so in a way that would likely only be understood by legal experts, but those were exactly the people who were drafting the recommendations to parliament on which laws to amend, and which ones to retain without alterations. Bentham’s ideas of legal reform were shaping the entire process of eliminating the death penalty within the English criminal law, and his arguments against punishing sex between men in general, let alone executing men for a private consensual act, were known to the men shaping the reform.

Reasoned arguments were not enough to motivate a man to sponsor such a bill, to risk his reputation, and to speak publicly against such an injustice. It can be proven that both Jeremy Bentham and Lord John Russell agreed with this reform, but neither man would publicly champion it. A judge at the time privately told Russell that he was “convinced that the only reason why the punishment of death has been retained in this case is the difficulty of finding any one hardy enough to undertake what might be represented as the defense of such a crime.” And that brings us to the most remarkable discovery in ‘Beyond the Law’, because the two men who were brave enough to do this were inspired to act not primarily through reasoned arguments, but through the emotional and affective bonds of family. Fitzroy Kelly, a newly elected Tory MP, grew up in economic hardship, only saved from poverty through the work of his mother, the novelist Isabella Kelly. The Kelly family was helped repeatedly by the gothic novelist Matthew Gregory Lewis, whose sexual interest in men was remarked on at the time. Moreover, William Kelly, Isabella’s son and Fitzroy’s brother, has been identified by scholars at least since the 1930s as Matthew’s strongest emotional attachment. Matthew’s sister was also married to the brother of the other co-sponsor of the 1840 and 1841 legislation, the lawyer and abolitionist Steven Lushington. It was Lushington, also, more than a decade before, who had worked with Lady Byron during her separation from Lord Byron, and it was Lushington who had raised the threat of accusing Byron of committing sodomy within his marriage as leverage in the separation proceedings. This web of family connections, cemented by love more than sex, is dense, convoluted, and still in significant parts obscure and unrecoverable. Nevertheless, ‘Beyond the Law’ recounts much of it, and tells a story wholly different from anything previously recovered for the early nineteenth century. It pieces together many public and private aspects of the first debates in the nineteenth century over the ethics of punishing sex between men.

 

Links:

 

  • Amazon UK:  Beyond The Law
  • The Truth About Alex by Anne Snyder – a gay book review and a movie

 

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: 180 years in court, Beyond the Law, British Parliament, Charles Upchurch, gay men

CAL [1984] – a move review

01/01/2023 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

Cal is a young man on the fringes of the I.R.A., but he falls in love with a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, has been killed a year earlier by the I.R.A.

Cal (John Lynch), as I have said, loves Marcella (Dame Helen Mirren) and put together such a wonderful performance that Mirren won the award of Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.

Two quotes covering this were:

  • Dirk Bogarde was President of the Jury that year and wrote to his friend Kathleen Tynan to say that while he’d seen some ‘pretty crummy movies’, he had also watched ‘a modest, excellent little film about the Irish Business for which, to my delight (and astonishment) Helen Mirren won Best Actress’.
  • Nigel Andrews of the Financial Times stated that ‘Cal is the most moving and convincing portrait of life in Northern Ireland the cinema has yet given us’.

John Lynch – Cal – 1984 | Regis Autographs

JOHN LYNCH, CAL, 1984 Stock Photo - Alamy

Links:

  • IMDB – Cal
  • YouTube – ‘Irish Movie’ [Cal]
  • Breathe – a gay movie review

 

Filed Under: Editor to ACOMSDave

Lost Photos of Nude Men on the Beach from the 1930s

15/11/2022 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

Keith Vaughan is an artist who is often overlooked, but when you view his work, and in particular ‘Nude Men on the Beach’ you will be hooked.

Nude Men on the BeachMuch is known about the British painter Keith Vaughan thanks to his extensive journals, written between 1939 and his death in 1977, and described as some of “the greatest confessional writing of the 20th-century”. They document the trials he faced as a gay artist whose principal focus was the male nude, rendered first in an erotic, Neo-Romantic style, and later an increasingly abstracted one.

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Keith Vaughan

Now further light has been shed on Vaughan’s oeuvre thanks to the rediscovery of a collection of lost photographs from Nude Men on the Beach, taken by the self-taught artist during covert visits to Pagham Beach in West Sussex in the 1930s, with a coterie of male friends. “When Vaughan decided to become a fine artist in 1938, he began to distil a visual language through photography, based on the male figure,” explains David Archer, curator of a new exhibition of the images in London. “After the war, he used the photographs to develop his unique drawing style, with compositional elements recurring in his gouaches and oil paintings until the mid-50s.”

The pictures depict Vaughan’s lithe pals cavorting on the beach, nude or semi-nude, performing handstands and drinking from shells. They brilliantly capture the abundant joy of their protagonists, temporarily freed from the shackles of societal prejudice, while their technical skill aligns Vaughan with the likes of Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy. “It’s as if he could disappear from his subjects’ presence; he was an observer but never a ringleader,” notes Archer. “Like all true works of art, these images transcend time.”

Keith Vaughan: On Pagham Beach is at Austin Desmond Gallery until 8 December, 2017.

  • Wikipedia – Keith Vaughan
  • Artnet – Keith
  • The Art of Persuasion

Filed Under: Community Journalist Tagged With: 1930s, artist, Beach, exhibition, Keith Vaughan, men, Nude., Pagham Beach, West Susses

10/11/2022 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

 

DWP confirm five changes that anyone on benefits need to be aware of before Christmas

We all need to take time out and review our finances.  It is tough out there, and if you can’t do this yourself then ask for help from family or from the local Citizens Advice Office, or if you are of that older generation (and that includes me) then check in with AGE NI 

 

https://acomsdave.com/10481-2/

Filed Under: Editor to ACOMSDave

George Lewis – Minds in Flux – Music Review

18/09/2022 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

George Lewis - Minds in Flux I was asked to listen to and possibly review George Lewis and his work  ‘Minds in Flux’.  I decided to listen to some of his other works:

  • “Interactive Trio “for Trombone, Two Pianos, and Interactive Music System, 2011
  • George Lewis: Voyager

George Lewis was born on the 14th July, 1952in Chicago, Illinois, USA.  He is an American composer, performer, and scholar of ‘experimental music’.

As a writer and listener, I have not heard George Lewis before, I do love listening to a wide variety of music, from Choral singing to Wagner, to Dave Brubeck, Bach, Beethoven, Morricone, John Williams to name a few, indeed I have also listened to an interpretation of 2000AD-year-old Greek music.

I would say that the overriding quality I feel for music is melodiousness; it needs to create a feeling of encompassing joy. And unfortunately, I do not find that George’s music does this for me.  At the beginning of the 20th century, classical music took a turn (for me) for the worse.   Composers like Schoenberg sought to free the dissonance completely so that dissonant intervals and chords are equal to those of consonant ones. (Dissonance on the rise! – https://alevelmusic.com/alevelcompositionhelp/3-composition-into-the-c20/dissonance-on-the-rise/ )

As I have mentioned, I listen widely to music, and this includes other cultures, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, Indian – they all have remarkable music, and often to our Western ear their tones and spacing do not seem quite right – here I beg to differ, for often the music is sublime.

I find George’s music to well crafted, but, I do not find it encompassing, it sets my nerves on edge, and it does not wrap me in comfort.  Minds in Flux is 27 mins and 25 seconds long and Lewis says about his piece, “Digitally mediated entities emerge from the orchestra, to mutate into recombinant doppelgangers that follow diverse spatial trajectories around the hall”. 

It is well-crafted piece of music as I have already said, and brilliantly played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sounds Intermedia, Donald Runnicles (conductor) and Ilan Volkov (conductor), but compared to the other two pieces on the disc:

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music

and

  • Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll

I am left cold and without joy

 

Links:

  • George Lewis on Composing Behaviors – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvzq2ffdMMM
  • George Lewis “Interactive Trio” for Trombone, Two Pianos, and Interactive Music System, 2011 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec88U5R7cJ0
  • George E Lewis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Lewis )
  • GEORGE E. LEWIS – Recharging Unyazi 2005
  • X-Men star opens up about first on-screen gay kiss in music video
  • YouTube Star Joey Graceffa Comes Out As Gay In Magical Music Video
  • SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS ON A GRUMPY THEME

Filed Under: Music Reviews Tagged With: Beethoven, Dave Brubeck, experimental music, George Lewis, John Williams, Minds in Flux, Voyager, Wagner

LGBT+ Theatre in Northern Ireland

22/08/2022 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

Last week we lost the  Above the Stag Theatre, 72 Albert Embankment, Inner London, SE1 7TP. It is not the first time that a theatre has closed, currently, Theatres at Risk Register 2022 shows 41 theatres in the UK at risk of being closed or moved into different usage, and there is no dedicated LGBT+ theatre in Northern Ireland.

But what was special about Above the Stag was that it was a charity and the UK’s only exclusively LGBT+ Theatre.  This is a massive loss to our community; writers of plays and musicals for our community no longer have a specific outlet.  They now will need to compete against mainstream theatre items whose (rightly) focus will be on generating revenue and keeping their premises open – and the way to do that is to put on items that will be of interest to the mainstream of society.

Yes, we are lucky in the UK to have various festivals, like the Edinburgh Fringe, which allow things to be produced of such a varied and wide nature.  Indeed the playwright Patrick Wilde had the play put on, and I have been trying to find a company in Northern Ireland (without success) to have Couldn’t Make it Up (by Patrick) or James Martin Charlton’s play ‘Desire of Frankenstein’ put on in Northern Ireland.

We are lucky that the Lyric and the MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre) do put on LGBTQ+ plays etc, as indeed does the QFT (Queen’s Film Theatre), but it would be so tremendous to have a theatre and a theatre company dedicated to our community.

The loss of Above the Stag Theatre is felt deeply in our community; I hope that is able to be re-established in a new location but to expand that would be wonderful, and wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could get 5-6 regional theatres that expressly produce LGBTQ+ material for our community

Above The Stag Theatre   

Links:

  • Above the Stag
  • Broadway World – Above The Stag Theatre Announces Closure
  • Tommy at Greenwich Theatre
  • Miss Saigon (School Edition)

 

 

Filed Under: Community Journalist, Theatre Reviews Tagged With: Above the Stag Theatre, Desires of Frankenstein, James Martin Charllton, Patrick Wilde, The Lyric, The MAC, The QFT, theatre closures in the UK, You Couldn't Make it UP

Breathe – a gay movie review

20/07/2022 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

BreatheBreathe is about a young boy (played by Lee O’Donoghue as Francie) in a ‘Traveller’ family whose father believes him to be to effeminate, and who then decides to make him toughen up through the manly art of ‘boxing’ (and in traveller form, this leads to bare-knuckle fighting).

In March 2001 I published the National LGBT+ Traveller & Roma Action Group’s first ever LGBT+ Traveller & Roma Calendar, so click the link and go off and read about them.

 

 

 

 

 

But back to the film Breathe, because it started me off on a personal journey; suddenly into my mind came the picture of my Mum (now deceased) and of her describing riding on a traveller caravan

Traveller Caravan

as one of her ‘uncles’ belonged to the traveller community.  She remembered it with a laugh and said she really enjoyed the short trip.  The story ended with an aside that he left for Canada, and nothing more was heard.

I did not know anything about the traveller community other than various documentaries (few and hard to find) and the occasional article in papers or on the news (usually not very complimentary).

But they like any community not part of the ‘norm’ are looked on with suspicion, and unfortunately, a few have given the whole a bad reputation.

 

 

But Back to the Film

In the film ‘Breathe’, John Connor plays the father.  His portrait is of the old image of a father worried about his heritage and of how people will look at the whole family if he has a gay son – will he and the family lose respect?

John is from the old school, hard as nails, and he expects his son to be the same.  There are elements in the movie that a lot of people will reject; especially for the traveller community, but as John Connor comes from that community he can and has testified to the reality of the story.

I do not want to give away more of the story as Breathe is a short movie, however at the end, we are left with a message – ‘love does win’ – what happens in the future, who knows, but then that is another story.

Director:   James Doherty
Writer:   Theo James Krekis
Stars:   John Connors, Lee O’Donoghue, Lynn Rafferty

Links:

  • YouTube – Breathe
  • IMDB – Breathe

Breathe has won numerous awards, 

Belfast Film Festival 2016

Winner
Jury Special Mention
Short Film
James Doherty (director)
Peter Brennan (producer)
Theo James Krekis (writer)
Greeble Film (production company)

 

PAGE International Screenwriting Awards 2015

Winner
Silver Prize
Best Short Film Script
Theo James Krekis (writer)

Shocking and Frustrating

But what is so shocking, is that a film of this calibre ended up having to be crowdfunded to get made; what a gem we would have missed if some people had not decided to back the team!

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: Belfast Film Festival, Breathe, John Connors, Lee O'Donoghue, Lynn Rafferty, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

What is a journalist?

29/05/2022 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

What is a journalist? To my mind, a journalist is someone interested in finding out about a story.  A person who collects, gathers and sifts through the information and then formulates it into an article either for print, TV or radio – or these days social media channels. 

So what started me down this rabbit hole?  Over the last number of years, I have undertaken courses in journalism, and they were all good at teaching you the theory of journalism, and the law, but what was missing was talk about that spark that draws a journalist to put his or her life at risk for a story or fact.

Two separate articles, both from the Belfast Telegraph have made me take a step back and review what I have been doing.

The first was TV presenter Gavin Esker:  “Botched Brexit has shattered the idea of a ‘United Kingdom'” and the second, “There’s an easy way for BBC NI to defend its broadcaster against toxic sectarian slurs”.

 

What is a journalist?

Northern Ireland adrift

Gavin rightly highlights what is a common thread for so many in Unionism, that yet again Unionists in N Ireland have been treated as not even 2nd class citizens in the United Kingdom.  Yes, Boris (Johnson) and his like had a mandate to negotiate for the United Kingdon, but not to the extent of putting Northern Ireland under the ‘gravy train’.

…’ Unionists feel abandoned…NI came nowhere in Boris’s priorities.  He just wanted to say that he could get Brexit done’…

 

 

 

What is a journalist?

Has the BBC got lost down the rabbit hole?

 

In the second article, Gail Walker writes about journalists having their reputations being maligned by 30-seconds of the tap-tap-tap keyboard.  The article speaks about how the BBC is one of the great platforms for truth and justice, with exceptional journalists and reporters; however, it then leads to how the BBC needs to be more clear about how it chooses interviewees or topics.  What is their bias, and as she says

…are shows biased, are they balanced, are sections of the community under-respected…

But though some would say we should make more demands of the BBC as we are paying for it with our licence fee, the question has to be asked, can you just leave it at the BBC’s doorstep;   shou

ldn’t we be equally clear that all media including the ITV Hub, private radio stations, and social media have a duty of care as to be balanced with their reporting?

 

Links:

  • Belfast Telegraph – There’s an easy way for BBC NI to defend its broadcasters against toxic sectarian slurs – Gail Walker – Apr 2, 2022
  • Belfast Telegraph – TV presenter Gavin Esler: botched Brexit has shattered the idea of a ‘United’ Kingdom – Feb 19, 2022
  • 100 years of Northern Ireland: how has it gone?

 

 

Filed Under: Community Journalist Tagged With: BBC, bias, Brexit, journalism, reporting

Where Have All The Lesbians Gone

19/05/2022 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

Where Have All the Lesbians Gone is this excellent documentary is still on More 4 from its broadcast date and time (Thu 28 Apr, 10.30 pm).  It is an in-your-face documentary, exploring what a lesbian is, is the term ‘lesbian’ is right for today and is it an old dated term that carries connotations from the past.  As a documentary, it shows a wide range of wonderful women who are not frightened talking about themselves, their love and sex life, and the expectations of society – inclusive of which is how the media treats lesbians in movies, and soap operas, books etc.

The documentary explores the opportunities of lesbians to have children, indeed have and live a wonderfully fulfilling life.  Where Have All The Lesbians Gone premiered in the middle of ‘Lesbian Visibility Week’, and it brought to the screen with sometimes hilarious anecdotes about the real lives of lesbians. It didn’t shy from using swear words when appropriate to a story; it wasn’t done with gratification, it was done in normal speech.

Links:

  • Channel 4 – Where Have All The Lesbians Gone
  • Where have all the Lesbians gone? (2000) from Vancouver dykes
  • Where Have All the Lesbians Gone? Part 1 (The Eight Square’s Corner) – a dramatic reading of an article by Katie Herzog
  • The same-sex marriage referendum has transformed Ireland before it’s even begun
  • Book Review: Serious Pleasure
  • Homotopia presents… 1967: Where are all the Lesbians?

 

 

Where Have All the Lesbians Gone Where Have All the Lesbians Gone

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Reviews, TV programme reviews Tagged With: gay women, history, Lesbians, love lesbians, marginalised, powerful

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022

19/05/2022 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022    This article was published in Openly, Reuters:

OPINION: Time to wipe the slate clean: New UK government measures address historical convictions under homophobic laws 

by Paul Johnson, Michael Cashman and Alistair Lexden
Thursday, 28 April 2022 12:30 GMT

The passing of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 means that disregards and pardons are available to any person who was convicted of sexual activity between persons of the same sex, subject to certain conditions

Professor Paul Johnson is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leeds; Michael Cashman is a former Labour MEP and currently a Labour peer of the House of Lords; Alistair Lexden is a Conservative peer and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Martin Luther King Jr said, “We are not makers of history; we are made by history.”  

Dr King’s words have particular resonance for LGBTQ+ people in the UK who lived through the final years of a very long history of homophobic laws that damaged and, in many cases, destroyed lives.

Although the laws that for centuries prevented gay people living full and happy lives have been progressively repealed, such laws continue to have consequences for some people today.

Among the significant consequences are the official records that endure for those convicted of, or cautioned for, offences involving same-sex sexual conduct that would today be entirely lawful. Such records have continued to harm the lives of people who are still living today and are an insult to the memory of those who have died.

Since 2012, the legislatures of the UK have taken action to address the painful history of the persecution of gay people and have introduced “disregard” and “pardon” schemes.

Although there are some differences in the schemes operating in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland their overall effect is to provide a mechanism for those living with a caution or conviction, for same-sex sexual conduct that would today be lawful, to have a caution or conviction disregarded and to be pardoned. In addition, posthumous pardons have been granted to those cautioned or convicted under laws extending back to the 16th century.  

Having a caution or conviction disregarded can be life changing. It means, for example, that a person will be treated for all purposes in law as if that person has not committed the offence. Moreover, the granting of pardons, aside from their legal status, is a strong, symbolic apology to each and every person who has been wronged.

The disregard and pardon schemes are therefore very important. They address individual suffering, and they also send a clear message to people in the UK, and in the wider world, that we have confronted our shameful history and said “never again”. This is particularly important at a time when, around the world, fanatical legislation is being proposed by those who wish to harm LGBTQ+ people.

However, until the passage of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, the disregard and pardon schemes in England and Wales were significantly flawed because they encompassed only a small fraction of the offences that, over the decades and centuries, ruined the lives of gay people. Crucially, the schemes did not include the wide range of service discipline offences that allowed members of the UK armed forces to be convicted for same-sex sexual acts long after such acts became legal for civilians – offences that often ruined the careers and lives of service personnel.

For the past six years, the three of us have worked together, with supportive government ministers – particularly Baroness Goldie and Baroness Williams of Trafford – as well as dedicated civil servants, to address the limitations of the disregard and pardon schemes and bring justice to all those who need and deserve it.

We were responsible, for instance, for ensuring that posthumous pardons for Royal Navy personnel were appropriately provided for in the Policing and Crime Act 2017, and we were responsible for provisions in the Armed Forces Act 2021 that extended posthumous pardons to Army and Royal Marines personnel.

Most recently, we worked with the UK government to include provisions in the 2022 Act that change the disregard and pardon schemes in England and Wales to encompass the wide range of repealed criminal and service discipline offences that once regulated same-sex sexual activity that would be lawful today.

The changes made by the 2022 Act to the schemes in England and Wales mean that disregards and pardons are available to any person who was convicted of, or cautioned for, an offence in circumstances where the conduct constituting the offence was sexual activity between persons of the same sex, subject to certain conditions. The key conditions are that: any other person involved in the sexual activity was aged 16 or over; the offence has been repealed or abolished; and the sexual activity would not, if occurring in the same circumstances now, constitute an offence.

To return to Dr King’s wise words, it is the history of generations past that made us want to work to bring about justice for all those mistreated by English law solely because of their sexual orientation. The provisions in the 2022 Act wipe away a terrible stain from our history and, crucially, tender a deep and profound symbolic apology to those who have suffered.

We continue to work towards ensuring that the disregard and pardon schemes in Northern Ireland encompass all the offences that once criminalised same-sex sexual conduct that is lawful today.

Openly is an initiative of the Thomson Reuters Foundation dedicated to impartial coverage of LGBT+ issues from around the world.

 

Links:

 

  • Porn Laws by Tim Clarke

Filed Under: Editor to ACOMSDave Tagged With: Freedom, government, law

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