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To kick off LGBTQ+ History Month, here's a 🧵 on our legal history in the UK. It all started with...
The Buggery Act in 1533...
The Buggery Act in 1533...
Passed during the reign of King Henry VIII, this act moved the issue of sodomy from the ecclesiastical courts to the state. The Act did not explicitly target homosexual acts between men as it also applied to sodomy between men and women, and acts between a person and an animal.
However, it was male homosexual convictions that were by far the most common and publicised. Convictions under the Buggery Act were punishable by death. Eventually, the Buggery Act was repealed and replaced by the Offences Against the Person Act 1828.
