Ireland considered making 21 age of consent for gay people when decriminalising homosexuality
One 1993 document noted that moving from “criminalisation to equality might be too major a change at one go”.
Source: thejournal.ie
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One 1993 document noted that moving from “criminalisation to equality might be too major a change at one go”.
Records show the Government looked at setting 21 years as the age of consent for intercourse between two people of the same sex in 1993
State papers: Higher age of consent for homosexuality was ‘optimum’ to avoid it being seen as ‘perfectly normal’, AG’s office said in 1993
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