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Activists demanding change at an OutRage! demonstration in London in 1995. (Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty) It is 20 years today since the age of consent was finally equalised in the UK after a bruising, years-long campaign from LGBT+ activists. Today, queer people enjoy many of the same rights as their straight counterparts in the UK – but that wasn’t always the case. Homosexuality was illegal in all circumstances up until 1967, and same-sex marriage was once just a distant dream. Among the many legal hurdles queer people had to overcome was the battle to equalise the age of consent. Gay and bisexual men had been governed by a separate age of consent for decades, pushing them further into the shadows in the process. ....