Peter Wildeblood

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Peter Wildeblood


Born
May 19, 1923

Died
November 14, 1999


Date of Birth 19 May 1923, Alassio, Liguria, Italy
Date of Death 14 November 1999, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Educated at Radley College, Oxfordshire and then Trinity College, Oxford.

Served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.


In January 1954, he was arrested by British police and charged with homosexual offences. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison. After his release, he became a campaigner for gay rights, writing the book "Against The Law", and his contribution to the Wolfenden Committee's report on homosexuality. This report paved the way to the decriminalization of homosexual acts between adult males in the UK in 1967.

In 1994, suffered a stroke which left him speechless and a quadriplegic.


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