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Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts: Motion (19 Jun 2018): Leo Varadkar: ...and the public. Others saw it as a mental illness, including the medical profession at the time. For every one conviction, there were a hundred other people who lived under the stigma of prosecution, who feared having their sexual orientation made public and their lives and careers destroyed as a result. Last summer, I was in San Francisco and I had the opportunity to visit a memorial in...

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