Allan Horsfall
Civil rights activist
Allan Horsfall (20 October 1927 – 27 August 2012) was a British gay rights campaigner and founder of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. Horsfall was also the co-founder and leader of the North-Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee (NWHLRC), a regional and provincial branch of the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) in Manchester.
Life
He was born on 20 October 1927 at Laneshawbridge.
In 1956, following the Suez Crisis, he became radicalised and became a local Councillor in his home town in 1958. He joined the North-East Lancashire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. In 1958, he started campaigning for the Homosexual Law Reform Society to implement the findings of the Wolfenden Report published in 1957. Horsfall began campaigning through his local Ward Committee, in order to push for a pro-Wolfenden Resolution in 1958. Although he was initially met with resistance, the Ward Committee passed a resolution on the second try. Outside of local politics, Horsfall criticised the lack of Labour Party solidarity in Parliament in the decriminalisation of homosexuality, particularly after the failure of Kenneth Robinson's 1960 proposal.
In 1963, Antony Grey (core member of the HLRS and leader of the Albany Trust- the Society's charitable branch) permitted the HLRS to add a provincial element to its campaigning.
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