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