Steven Dryden explores three executions under the Buggery Act during the 1800s, looking at how they were reported in the media of the time. The Buggery Act of 1533, passed by Parliament during the ...

GOVERNMENT is about to start a review of the Sexual Offences Act, which is likely to affect other legislation and raise questions about how the Buggery Act will be treated in the process. Gordon House ...

Two respected clergy colleagues have gone public in support of decriminalising buggery. These are my former United Theological College of the West Indies lecturer in psychology, Dr Howard Gregory, ...

Over 6,000 people are still in Canadian police databases because they were convicted of the now-extinct crimes of gross indecency and buggery, RCMP data shows. The oldest conviction in the data was in ...

Two men on a gay cruise through the Caribbean were arrested in the Commonwealth of Dominica on Wednesday and charged with indecent exposure and buggery, a term equivalent to sodomy on the island.

People who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, homosexual or transgender should not have the same rights as “normal” people. That is the view expressed by the Christian non-governmental organisation, ...

DPP -v- Judge Mary Devins. Neutral Citation (2009) IEHC 584. Judgment was delivered by Mr Justice Daniel O'Keeffe on December 2nd, 2009. The High Court ruled that buggery was a statutory, rather than ...

A Supreme Court majority decision today halting the trial of a priest on a charge of alleged buggery of a teenage boy in 1970 has important implications for other persons charged with buggery offences ...