- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Wigan is legal.
The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 legalized sexual acts between two men who were 21 or older (Excluding men serving in the military), but it placed new restrictions on sex for men who have sex with men. The act prohibited sex in places where a third party was likely to be present.
Subsequent laws, such as The Labouchere Amendment (Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885) redefined the offence and allowed for other punishments, for example Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labour in 1895, and in 1952 Alan Turing was chemically castrated.
Female homosexuality and sexual acts were not addressed in the law, and therefore, they technically would have been legal, though the law often applied the law towards women.
Same-sex marriage in Wigan is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Wigan is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Wigan is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-Affirming Care in Wigan is restricted for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Wigan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Wigan is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Wigan is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Wigan is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Wigan is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Wigan is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Wigan is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Wigan is legal.
Northern Ireland is due to follow suit with these changes in September 2021.
Conversion therapy in Wigan is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Wigan is equal.
*Sex between more than two men remained illegal until later.