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See also theInternational Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)country-by-country analysis of lesbian and gay rightsweb site:http://www.ilga.org

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  • Constantly updated age of consent web site:http://www.ageofconsent.com

  • Freelawyer.co.ukhttp://www.freelawyer.co.uk

    "e;Freelawyer is very relevant to thegay community."e;

    "e;Freelawyer is the world's first fully interactive legal website. It aims to reform access to justice and provide value for money by offering tailor-made legal information on literally thousands of legal scenarios,free of charge. The user chooses the relevant area of law and responds to a series of questions posed by a 'virtualawyer'. He or she is then provided with a tailored Legal Information Sheet containing free information specific to his/her enquiry and the facts provided, including guidance on local specialist law firms and legal fee estimations - should they wish to take the matter further. You are also able to download legal documents such as wills from the freelawyer website . Areas of law include Family, Employment, Housing and Motoring. Personal Injury and Consumer law will follow shortly."e;

    This entry last updated: 29th. September, 2000.

  • GayLawNet Web site:http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dba/

  • GALOP

    The acronym GALOP originally stood "e;Gay London Policing Group"e;. However, although the group kept the acronym, they changed their name to "e;Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Anti-violence and Policing Group"e;.

    "e;GALOP is London's only lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) anti-violence charity (Reg. No. 1077384). We offer assistance to lesbians, gay men and bisexual people who have experienced homophobic violence, abuse or harassment and we provide assistance in dealing with the police."e;

    "e;We offer a free and confidential helpline (known as the SHOUTLINE), which currently operates three times per week:

    Monday 5 - 8 pm

    Wednesday 3 -6 pm

    Friday 12 noon - 2 pm

    "e;The SHOUTLINE number is 020 7704 2040 or 020 7704 3111 (Minicom)."e;

    "e;We are NOT the police and keep all information confidential."e;

    "e;GALOP has a dedicated Youth Project, providing assistance to LGB's aged 16 to 25 and a Black Services Development Project, which is targeted at people of African, Asian and Caribbean descent."e;

    "e;Anyone interested in becoming involved with GALOP's Management Committee should contact the GALOP office: 020 7704 6767 or email:galop@onetel.net.uk"e;

    This entry last updated: 25th. July, 2001.

  • Intercom Trust

    Community-safety & police liaison.

    Web site:http://www.intercomtrust.org.uk/safety

  • LAGPA: Lesbian and Gay Police Association

    BM LAGPA, London, WC1N 3XX

    24 hour infoline 070 209 11922

    Web site:LAGPA - Home Page at http://www.dircon.co.uk/lagpa/

    Send an email message toinfo@lagpa.dircon.co.uk

    This entry last updated 8th. March, 2001.

  • LGBT Advisory Group

    The British London-based independent advisory group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people working with the Metropolitan Police.

    "e;The LGBT Advisory Group of the Metropolitan police is an independent panel established to provide consultation and advice on all aspects of the work of the Metropolitan Police as it impacts on the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities."e;

    Web site:http://www.lgbtag.org/

    This entry last updated 18th. September, 2002.

  • Nicholas Bamforth, (1997), "e;Sexuality, Morals and Justice"e;

  • Anne Barlow,Martin Bowley,Gill Butler,Laura Cox,Matthew Davies,Wesley Gryk,Angus Hamilton,Peter Smith, andMark Watson, (1999), "e;Advising Gay and Lesbian Clients: A Practical Guide for Lawyers"e;, Butterworths, ISBN 0 406 90303 4

    Blurb:"e;In one compact volume this book provides detailed and practical coverage of all the issues of specific concern to gay and lesbian clients, including discrimination in and outside employment, immigration issues, arranging financial affairs, inheritance tax planning and making wills, cohabitation, the family home, custody disputes, adopting and fostering children, donor insemination and the criminal law as it affects gay men. The book is right up-to-date with discussion of important recent developments such as the decisions inSmith v Gardner Merchant LtdandGrant v South-West Trains Ltd, the 1997 Home Office concession relating to unmarried partners and emerging issues such as the regulation of pornography on the internet. Consideration is also given to the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 and freedom granted under the European Convention on Human Rights."e;

  • Paul Crane, (1982), "e;Gays and the Law"e;, Pluto Press, ISBN 0-86104-386-3. 244 pages.

    A detailed description of legal cases and police action against gays upto 1982.

    Page 12:"e;Jeffrey Weeks attributes the developments of harsher legal penalties in the latter nineteenth century to, among other things, social changes in the family brought on by massive industrialisation and urbanisation. 'Social roles became more clearly defined, and as sexuality was more closely harnessed ideologically to the reproduction of the population so the social condemnation of homosexuality increased'."e;
    Quoted from chapter 1 ofJeffrey Weeks, (1977),Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain, London Quartet.

    Page 31:"e;Almost inevitably the mushrooming of gay discos in the seventies led some police forces to attempt to seriously disrupt or at least inhibit new-found gay freedom. In 1974 the licensee and manager of theFather Redcappub in Camberwell, South London were each fined 100 for permitting and abetting in running a 'disorderly house' after the police had moved in to stop gay discos."e;

    Father Redcap: 319 Camberwell Road, London, SE5 0HQ
    Email:steve@redcap.co.uk
    Web sitehttp://www.redcap.co.uk

    Page 87:"e;I remember the very exciting feeling I got when I first saw one of these magazines before I came out. There I saw men kissing and holding and loving each other; something I never thought possible as the mainstream culture manifests itself in overwhelmingly heterosexual and macho terms. It was proof of a homosexual community and it was through porn that I learned of its existence."e;
    Gregg Blachford, quoted from Pam Mitchell, (editor), (1980),Looking at Pornography, inPink Triangles, Boston, USA, Alyson Publications.

  • Lynne Harne, (1997), "e;Valued Families: the Lesbian Mothers' Legal Handbook"e;, The Women's Press, 240 pages, ISBN 070434517X (paperback)

  • Morris B. Kaplan, (1998), "e;Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire"e;, Routledge, 291 pages, ISBN 0 415 90514 1 and 90515X.

    Too straight down the aisleby Alan Ryan inThe Times Higher Education Supplement, 13th. March, 1998, page 24. "e;Sexual Justiceis an extremely engaging, lively, and original treatment of the rights of sexual minorities, and a host of other topics into the bargain. Although Morris Kaplan teaches philosophy at Purchase College in New York, his interests are as much historical as philosophical, and as much psychological as political. One of the pleasures ofSexual Justiceis purely literary. Its author is anything but hesitant about making a case for the legal as well as the moral and social rights of gays and lesbians - he was a lawyer with the New York Legal Aid for some years - but the book is written in a constantly good-humoured tone, as though Kaplan is happily surprised to find himself in the company of Plato, Freud, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and a host of others."e;

  • Leslie J. Moran,Daniel Monk, andSarah Beresford, (editors), (1999), "e;Legal Queeries: Lesbian, gay and transgender legal studies"e;, Cassell.

  • James Morton, (1999), "e;Sex, Crimes and Misdemeanours"e;, Little Brown, 398 pages.

    When the law knocks on the bedroom doorby Jad Adams inThe Guardian: Saturday Review, 4th. December, 1999, page 8. "e;This is an intelligent and well-referenced book, rather let down by a lurid cover of the 'true crime' genre. It is a straight legal history which does not promise to relate the vagaries of sexual law to the events of political or economic life or the changing relationships between the genders. It does not preach, but one sterling lesson is that legislation rushed through without opposition, in the grip of a moral panic, is certain to be a disaster. The homosexual clause of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which made consenting, private sexual acts between men an offence, was written into law with only 500 words of debate in the House of Commons, but led to more than a century of persecution and suffering. Next year the age of consent for homosexual males is expected to become 16, in line with that for heterosexuals and lesbians. Young men may celebrate by having sex with their elder brothers - but not their sisters, for that would be incest."e;

  • David A. J. Richards, (1998), "e;Women, Gays, and the Constitution: The grounds for feminism and gay rights in culture and law"e;, Chicago University Press, 532 pages, ISBN 0 226 71206 0 (hc)/0 226 71207 9 (pb).

  • Carl Stychin, (1995), "e;Law's Desire: Sexuality And The Limits of Justice"e;, Routledge, 156 pages, ISBN 0-415-11127-7 (paperback).

    Blurb:"e;Stychin provides a critical examination of the relationship between law and sexual orientation in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada."e;

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