(the) Wolfenden Report

(the) Wolfenden Report
the Wolfenden Report [the Wolfenden Report]
a British government report, completed in 1957, on ↑homosexuality. It was responsible for ↑homosexual acts between consenting (= agreeing) adults becoming legal in Britain. All ↑homosexual acts had been illegal until then.

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