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Judgment of the Supreme Court of Kentucky striking down the state sodomy law. The Court held that the statute violated the protection of privacy and equal protection under the Kentucky Constitution.

Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights ruling provisions criminalising certain same-sex practices between consenting adult men in private was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court found that the applicant’s right to privacy had been violated.

The High Court of the Solomon Islands ruled that section 155 of the Penal Code (gross indecency between males) discriminated the prohibition of non-discrimination contained in section 15 of the 1978 Constitution.

Decision of the European Court of Human Rights holding that laws prohibiting same-sex acts between consenting adult males constituted a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

A landmark report published in 1957 paving the way for decriminalisation of same-sex activity in England and Wales in 1967.