Michael Pitt-Rivers
Male, Person
1917 –
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Who is Michael Pitt-Rivers?
Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery. This trial was instrumental in bringing public attention—and opposition—to the laws against homosexuality as they then stood.
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