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The Buggery Act 1533, formally An Acte for the punishment of the vice of Buggerie (25 Hen. 8. c. 6), was an Act of the Parliament of England that was...

Sodomy (/ˈsɒdəmi/), also called buggery in British English, generally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any...

legislation under English criminal law against sodomy with the Buggery Act 1533, making buggery punishable by hanging, a penalty not lifted until 1861. Following...

Hungerford was the first man to be executed under the Buggery Act in England. 1541 – The Buggery Act 1533 only ran until the end of the parliament. The law...

sexual activity was characterised as "sinful" but not illegal. Under the Buggery Act 1533 male anal sex was outlawed and made punishable by death. LGBT rights...

The Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), often erroneously called the Equalities Act 2010, is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the Brown...

Before the Reformation it was punished by ecclesiastical courts; the Buggery Act 1533 transferred the jurisdiction to the royal courts, with the penalties...

the free dictionary. To act in a stupid or reckless manner. (Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Buggery Buggery Act 1533 Bogomils Partridge, Eric...

and rally was not held in London, decamping to Huddersfield instead as an act of solidarity with the Yorkshire gay community who claimed that West Yorkshire...

The Gender Recognition Act 2004 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that allows adults in the United Kingdom who have gender dysphoria to...

Government Act 2003. Male homosexuality had been illegal within the United Kingdom for centuries, with laws on sodomy having first been passed as the Buggery Act...

under section 15 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828, which had replaced the 1533 Buggery Act, and were sentenced to death. William Bonill was convicted...

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced by the Labour government, which grants civil partnerships...

prison. The Buggery Act 1533, during the time of Henry VIII, codified sodomy into secular law as "the detestable and abominable vice of buggery". The Offences...

Offences Against the Person Act raised the age to 13 in Great Britain and Ireland, and ten years later the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 raised it to 16....

18th-century England. At the time sodomy in England was a crime under the Buggery Act 1533, punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or the death penalty. Despite...

dedicated to Tommaso dei Cavalieri. 1533 – King Henry VIII passes the Buggery Act 1533 making anal intercourse punishable by death throughout England....

beast. This phrase originates in Buggery Act 1533, with words "crime against nature" substituted for "vice of buggery" in the original, and it was present...

Talk, London: Atlantic Books, pp. 309–323 "1533: 25 Henry 8 c.6: The Buggery Act". February 13, 2018. Wilton, David / Brunetti, Ivan. Word myths: debunking...

the basis for many anti-sodomy laws to establish the death penalty The Buggery Act 1533.  This also led to the fact that although the Renaissance traced...