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[[File:Jeff Dudgeon.jpg|thumb|Jeff Dudgeon]]'''Jeff Dudgeon''' (Jeffrey Edward Anthony Dudgeon, born 1946) is a Northern Irish politician and gay activist.
[[File:Jeff Dudgeon.jpg|thumb|Jeff Dudgeon]]'''Jeff Dudgeon''' (Jeffrey Edward Anthony Dudgeon, born 1946) is a Northern Irish politician and gay activist.


He was born in Belfast, and educated at Campbell College, [[Magee University College]], Derry, and [[Trinity College, Dublin].<ref name=casement>Roger Casement, ''The Black Diaries, with a study of his background, sexuality, and Irish political life'', edited by Jeffrey Dudgeon. Belfast Press, 2002.</ref>
He was born in Belfast, and educated at Campbell College, [[Magee University College]], Derry, and [[Trinity College, Dublin]].<ref name=casement>Roger Casement, ''The Black Diaries, with a study of his background, sexuality, and Irish political life'', edited by Jeffrey Dudgeon. Belfast Press, 2002.</ref>


He is mainly known for [[Dudgeon v United Kingdom (1981)]], the case which led to the legalisation of homosexuality in [[Northern Ireland]].
He is mainly known for [[Dudgeon v United Kingdom (1981)]], the case which led to the legalisation of homosexuality in [[Northern Ireland]].

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Jeff Dudgeon

Jeff Dudgeon (Jeffrey Edward Anthony Dudgeon, born 1946) is a Northern Irish politician and gay activist.

He was born in Belfast, and educated at Campbell College, Magee University College, Derry, and Trinity College, Dublin.[1]

He is mainly known for Dudgeon v United Kingdom (1981), the case which led to the legalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland.

He has also published a study of Roger Casement's "Black Diaries", which accepted them as genuine.[1]

He was the Labour Integrationist candidate for Belfast South in the 1979 General election, but has since joined the Ulster Unionist Party.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Roger Casement, The Black Diaries, with a study of his background, sexuality, and Irish political life, edited by Jeffrey Dudgeon. Belfast Press, 2002.