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Title: Chapter 18 : Governance and leadership
Other Titles: Sociology of the Maltese Islands
Authors: Agius, Silvan
Dalli, Helena
Keywords: Leadership -- Malta
Representative government and representation -- Malta
Sexual minorities -- Malta
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Miller Publishing
Citation: Agius, S., & Dalli, H. (2016). Chapter 18: Governance and leadership. In M. Briguglio, & M. Brown (Eds.), Sociology of the Maltese Islands (pp. 357-370). Ħal Luqa: Miller Publishing.
Abstract: The legal liberation of LGBTIQ people in Malta knows its origins in Parliamentary debates of the 1970s that led to the removal of criminal sanctions that disproportionately negatively impacted gay men. Indeed in 1973, Malta amended the Criminal Code (Laws of Malta, 2015) removing the provisions criminalising "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" and equalised the age of consent for different-sex and same-sex sexual relations. While the removal of the criminalisation of sodomy was in keeping with the developments in the wider European continent, the equalisation of the age of consent for heterosexuals and homosexuals alike showed leadership, as Malta was only the seventh European country to legislate equality in this regard.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46416
ISBN: 9789995752590
Appears in Collections:Sociology of the Maltese Islands

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