Social Developments: Homosexuality

Question 1

What did the Wolfenden report say about homosexual activities?

Answer 1

They should be allowed to have sex in the privacy of their home

Question 2

What organisation was created after the Wolfenden Report was published? (HLRS)

Answer 2

Homosexual Law Reform Society

Question 3

What did the Homosexual Law Reform society want?

Answer 3

Everything mentioned in the Wolfenden Report to be implemented

Question 4

What did opinion polls on Homosexuality show in 1964?

Answer 4

They did not try to understand homosexuals, and just pitied them

Question 5

Which Bishop approved of Homosexual Law Reform?

Answer 5

Bishop of Bristol

Question 6

What did Abse do to keep Conservatives on his side with the Homosexual reform?

Answer 6

He raised the age of consent to 21 for homosexuals

Question 7

What did Jenkins say about the Sexual Offences Bill

Answer 7

It would not have gone through if he was not Home Secretary

Question 8

What year did the Sexual Offences Act pass?

Answer 8

1967

Question 9

Where did the law initially only pass to?

Answer 9

England and Wales

Question 10

Why did the Sexual Offences Act not pass in Scotland or Northern Ireland?

Answer 10

They opposed it

Question 11

How did some parts of the UK regard the Sexual Offences Act of 2 people doing it in private mean?

Answer 11

They could only do it if they were the only people in a building