26 years ago today, homosexuality was officially decriminalised in Ireland
26 years ago today, Ireland decriminalised homosexuality. June 24 1993 marked the decriminalisation of same-sex sexual activity after a law from 1861 had made male homosexual acts punishable by penal servitude. The new law, the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill, was proposed by then Minister for Justice Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. She said that decriminalisation would allow […]
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