Should Gay Men Still Be Labelled Criminals?

See, eg, Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic) s 6(p); Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) Part 4C; Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) s 7; Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA) s 350.

Some isolated sources exist: See, eg, Western Australia, Report of the Honorary Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into and Report upon Matters Relating to Homosexuality (1974); Hawkins Gordon (ed), Male Sex Offences in Public Places, Institute of Criminology, Law School, University of Sydney (1970). For a comparative example, see Humphreys Laud , Tearoom Trade: A Study of Homosexual Encounters in Public Places (Duckworth, 1970).

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Homosexual Offences (1978).

Ibid Table 3.12.

Ibid Table 3.6. Six cases of those said to be consenting were minors (page 14), of a total of 15 minors. From this it can be extrapolated that, given 9 minors were non-consenting and 70 of the consenting group were adults, only one adult was non-consenting.

Ibid Table 3.8.

Ibid 38.

Ibid 14.

Ibid 16.

Ibid 23.

Paterson Moira Naylor Bronwyn , ‘Australian Spent Convictions Reform: A Contextual Analysis’ (2011) 34(3) UNSW Law Journal 938.

See http://www.crimtrac.gov.au/.

Police Victoria , Information Release Policy (revised September 2011) <www.police.vic.gov.au/retrievemedia.asp?Media_ID=38447>.

Lord Currie of Marylebone et al, ‘Pardon for Alan Turing’, Letters to the Editor, The Telegraph (14 December 2012) <www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9743502/Commitment-not-a-ceremony-is-the-key-to-a-long-lasting-relationship.html>.

New Zealand House of Representatives, Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Bill as reported from the Justice and Electoral Committee, Commentary (2003) 16.

Australian Law Reform Commission, Spent Convictions, Report No 37 (1987) 33.

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Homosexual Offences (1978) 21.

Mill John Stuart , On Liberty (John W Parker & Son, 2nd ed, 1859) 22.