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Encyclopedia > Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform

The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was an organisation set up to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland in the 1970s. Its most prominent leader was David Norris, an English language lecturer in Trinity College Dublin, Joycean scholar and from the 1980s to the present a member of Seanad Éireann, the Irish Senate.


Its first legal advisor was Mary McAleese, Reid Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin, who also later acted as a media advisor to the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops. She is currrently President of Ireland, having been elected in 1997. After she left the campaign to become a journalist with Radio Telefís Éireann, Ireland's national media broadcaster, she was succeeded by Mary Robinson, a former Reid Professor of Law and member of Seanad Éireann, who was elected President of Ireland in 1990.


Homosexuality was finally decriminalised in 1993 by the Fianna Fáil/Labour government under then Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds. An equal age of consent was provided for homosexuals and heterosexuals alike.


See also: gay rights movement




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Homosexual acts were decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967 under the Sexual Offences Act 1967.
In 1974 the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform (Northern Ireland) was established to campaign to have the act extended to Northern Ireland.
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He was working on restoring his new house on North Great George's street, on a campaign to save the street and maintain it to its original glory, on the case for Homosexual law reform, on the Hirschfield Centre and on his work as an English lecturer.
Although he had an organising role in many committees and campaigns by the mid 1980's, it wasn't until his friend Mary Robinson asked for his assistance in her campaign to run for the Seanad that David became aware of the existence of the Trinity seats.
His second campaign in 1982 was almost abandoned because Norris disappeared in the middle of it on a mission that concerned one of his great passions in life, James Joyce.
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