Catalogue Number
NMLH.2004.27.3
Object Name
Poster
Title
Public Meeting, Society And Its Homosexuals, Why The Law Must Be Changed. Speakers: Humphry Berkeley... Houdsworth Hall, 90 Deansgate Manchester... 1966
Place
Manchester ; Salford & Lancashire & England & UK
People
Horsfall, Alan
Events
public meeting
Date
1966
Description
White poster block red lettering. N.B.: poster in sealed/encapsulated in clear plastic
OSP script: Public Meeting poster, 1966.
This poster advertises a meeting in support of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. In 1965 Conservative MP Humphrey Berkeley attempted to pass a commons bill to achieve this, but lost his seat at the 1966 general election. Homosexuality was legalised in 1967 following Labour MP Leo Abse's private members bill. Antony Gray was secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society.
