#Census2021: The private made public: sexual orientation in the census
Dr Paul Nolan is an independent researcher based in Belfast. He writes on conflict societies, social trends and demography. In 1977 Reverend Dr Ian Paisley launched the Save Ulster From Sodomy! Campaign. The exclamation mark built into the campaign title was intended to convey the urgency of the situation: at that time a Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association had been formed to campaign for the extension of the Sexual Offences Act (1967) which had decriminalised homosexual acts between consenting adult …