LGBTQ+ persecutions

Scope and Contents

Articles and publications relating to policing and the legal rights of the LGBT community.

Records include: extracts from the Sexual Offences Act 1967, The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 1976, The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 and the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982; and journal articles on counselling, and the legal rights of the LGBT community.

Scope and Contents Front cover shows Peter Tatchell and Sharley McLean campaigning to lay wreaths in memory of LGBT victims of Nazi facism. This issues covers: an announcement of a general forum arranged to discuss the proposal of a new management committee for the Gay Centre at Broughton Street; the funding for the London Lesbian and Gay Centre being withheld by the Government as they believed the users of the Centre were not from an economically deprived group; support for lowering the age of consent from...

Scope and Contents Articles, leaflets, and other information on policing and legal rights for the lesbian and gay community collected to help provide legal advice to callers.Records include information on: the campaign to stop the Scottish Criminal Justice Bill and the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill; what to do if you are questioned or arrested by the police; making a complaint against the police; London Switchboard’s advice on how to handle visits from the police; a police questioning fact...