Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran He also sponsored a bill for the protection of badgers, and was once asked why this effort had failed whereas decriminalising homosexuality had succeeded. Arran is reported to have replied: "There are not many badgers in the House of Lords." Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran (5 July 1910 – 23 February 1983) was a British politician and the Conservative whip in the House of Lords. He is known for leading the effort in the House of Lords to decriminalise male homosexuality in 1967. His father was Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, and
The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality is a 1987 book about homosexuality by the sexologist and psychiatrist Richard Green. The book received both positive and mixed reviews. Green described the book as a report on a fifteen-year study of two behaviorally different groups of young boys, one feminine or "sissy" and the other conventionally masculine, and how they grew up to be "two behaviorally different groups of young men." "The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality" was first published in 1987 by Yale University Press. "The