Queer Crime

London: The Last Gay Hangings


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In 1533, King Henry VIII introduced an Act of Parliament called the Buggery Act. It was England's first sodomy law and it would have lasting repercussions for gay men all over the world.

This is the story of the last two men to be hanged in England under the Buggery Act.

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