Wolfenden

This March, Uganda passed tough new laws against homosexuality, while Greece has been kicking out illegal immigrants. These disparate acts have been condemned by the usual suspects, but both countries are doubling down. This is to be welcomed, although it must be admitted that the Ugandan Government has gone a tad too far. Both Greece […]

Throughout history, male homosexuality has been suppressed by social taboo and often by law. During the reign of Henry VIII, An Acte for the punishment of the vice of Buggerie was passed, and although prosecutions were not that common or even vigorous, two men were executed for consensual buggery as recently as 1835. In Britain, […]