
It is no longer a crime to be gay in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf signed legislation earlier this month that decriminalised homosexuality in the state. It was a law that some lawmakers didn’t even know was on the books.
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Not a Crime To Be Gay In Pennsylvania After Gov. Tom Wolf Signs Legislation Decriminalising Homosexuality
«Upper Darby found an Upper Darby way to handle an Upper Darby problem», LGBTQ activist Damien Warsavage said.
But that problem stretched much farther than Delco. Written into the state criminal code was a law that criminalised being gay, and then in the 1980s, Upper Darby included a statute of its own, philadelphia.cbslocal.com reports.
«There was an actual ordinance written into Upper Darby code that basically outlawed any kind of LGBTQ expression through commercialised means«, Warsavage said.