Peter Ashman
From QueerBio.com
Country
Ireland
Birth - Death
1950 - 2014
Occupation
Law
Description
Lawyer who played an important role in a landmark case in the late 1970s (the case of Jeff Dudgeon) that decriminalised homosexuality in Northern Ireland. The precedent this set led to decriminalisation across Europe. Joined the 'Campaign for Homosexual Equality', and at its 1978 conference co-organised a meeting of activists from 14 countries to establish an international gay rights organization, now known as ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association). Legal officer of Justice, the British section of the International Commission of Jurists, and later human rights adviser at the Foreign Office.
