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• The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Sir John Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee) was published in the United Kingdom on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Michael Pitt-Rivers, John Gielgud, and Peter Wildeblood were convicted of homosexual offences.
• This liberalization of attitudes has resulted in the decriminalisation of homosexuality in many countries, following the ground-breaking Wolfenden report in the United Kingdom.
• Following his release, Wolfenden signed for Football Conference side Wrexham, after impressing in pre-season friendlies against Preston North End and Carlton Town.
• The son of John Wolfenden, headmaster of Uppingham School, and, later, chairman of the Wolfenden Report which recommended the legalisation of male homosexual acts in Britain, Jeremy Wolfenden was himself homosexual.
• The correspondence that this letter generated helped bring together supporters of the Wolfenden Report, and this led to the Homosexual Law Reform Society being founded on 12 May 1958 with members including Victor Gollancz, Stephen Spender, and Kenneth Younger MP.
• Wolfenden identified three major dialects of Masbatenyo: the western dialect centered around the town of Balud on the western coast which is close to Capiz, the southern dialect centered about the town of Cataingan in the southeastern part of Masbate and the northern dialect covering the whole northern half of Masbate and centered on Masbate City, the capital.
• Her storylines in the series have included splitting up with Dr Liam Cavanagh (Jonny McPherson), her rivalry with Leanna Cavanagh (Mimi Slinger), getting into a relationship with David Metcalfe (Matthew Wolfenden) and grooming David's son, Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Plant).
• Chavasse gave his views on homosexuality informally to the Wolfenden Committee, disagreeing with the eventual proposal of the committee to allow same-sex relationships to be legal in private and arguing that "homosexual practice is alarmingly catching".
• Born Jacquie Wolfenden, she married naturalist Gerald Durrell and worked alongside him for many years.
• Pargeter was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her Emmerdale co-stars Charley Webb and Matthew Wolfenden.
• Derrick Sherwin Bailey (30 June 1910 – 9 February 1984) was an English Christian theologian, born at Alcester in Warwickshire, whose 1955 work Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition paved the way for the production of the 1957 Wolfenden report and for the Parliament of the United Kingdom's decriminalization of homosexuality in England and Wales a decade later.
• After the Wolfenden report in 1957, Devlin argued, initially in his 1959 Maccabean Lecture in Jurisprudence at the British Academy, in support of James Fitzjames Stephen that popular morality should be allowed to influence lawmaking, and that even private acts should be subject to legal sanction if they were held to be morally unacceptable by the "reasonable man", to preserve the moral fabric of society (Devlin's "reasonable man" was one who held commonly accepted views, not necessarily derived from reason as such).
• On 29 June 1960, the House of Commons, by a majority of 114 (99 Ayes to 213 Noes), voted against a motion endorsing the Wolfenden Committee's recommendations.
• Regular contributing authors include, Nathan Hill, Julian Dignall, Ad Konings, Max Pedley, Ivan Mikolji, Keith Naitby, Chris Sergeant, Tim Smith, Heiko Bleher, Gabor Horvath, Steve Baker, Tristan Lougher, Dave Wolfenden, Bob Mehen and George Farmer.
• As the Great Depression was gaining momentum and Republicans nationally fell out of favor with the public, Wolfenden, bucking the trend, was easily reelected in 1930, beating his Democratic opponent, Harry Wescott by 64,000 votes, 84,521 to 20,443.
• He was deselected by his party in 1959, after arguing in favour of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in a debate about implementing the Wolfenden report on 26 November 1958, a debate he had been most prominent in seeking.
• Reporters appearing most weeks include Ivan Gaskell, Hamish Marshall, Marc Webber, Juliette Ferrington, Roddy Forsyth, Martin Fisher, Sohail Sahi, Alastair Yeomans, Naz Premji, John Southall, John Acres, Will Perry, Eilidh Barbour, Laurence Herdman, Mike Williams, Andy Stevenson, Vicki Sparks, Katherine Downes, Robyn Cowen, Chris Wise, Mark Scott, Adam Cottier, Nick Hatton, Henry Moeran, Dan McCarthy, Adam Whitty, Tom Gayle, John Bennett, Nesta McGregor, Aaron Paul, Andy Sixsmith, Nikesh Rughani, Maz Farookhi, Betty Glover, Shourjo Sarkar, Connie McLaughlin, Ben Mundy, Laura Kenyon, Paul Scott, Niall McCaughan, Ben Croucher, Joshua Adu-Donkor, Lee Blakeman, Charlotte Richardson, Chris Coles, Rebecca Adams, Rich Wolfenden, Kate Mason, Flo Pollock, Gavin Wallace, Eisha Acton, Ellen Ellard, Gavin Ramjaun, Cameron Pope, Ryan Bromliow, Owain Gwynedd, Qasa Alom and Alex Howell.
• The Home Secretary named Linstead to the Wolfenden Committee investigation prostitution and homosexuality in 1954; Linstead endorsed the conclusions of the report that male homosexuality be decriminalised, and criticised the government for not bringing in legislation.
• Surnames of families forming the bulk of the parish of Oldham's earliest records include Assheton, Bardsley, Brearley, Broadbent, Butterworth, Buckley, Chadderton, Clegg, Coup, Crompton, Dunkerley, Halkyard, Halle, Heap, Heywood, Hopwood, Jackson, Knott, Lees, Mellor, Neild, Ogden, Schofield, Scholes, Smethurst, Sandiforth, Tetlow, Taylor, Whitehead, Whittaker, Winterbottom, Wolfenden, and Wild.
• Bernier, Carroll, Cundy, Duerden, Grapentine, Daniel Lewis, Munday, Soonias, Wilcox, Winters, Wolfenden, Youngberg.

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