Ian Dunn (activist)

Ian Campbell Dunn (1 May 1943 – 10 March 1998) was a Scottish gay rights and pro-paedophilia campaigner. He was founder of The Scottish Minorities Group (later known as Outright Scotland), one of the first British gay rights organisations, and helped establish Britain's first gay newspaper, ''Gay News.'' Dunn also worked as the editor of '' Gay Scotland'' magazine and co-founded the Paedophile Information Exchange.

Early life

Ian Dunn was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1943 to Donald and Audrey Dunn. He attended Hillhead High School in the city. He worked as a meteorologist at the Met Office. Dunn then moved to Edinburgh, studying town planning at Heriot Watt University. He failed to graduate from the university, but still worked for the city's planning department.

Activism

Gay rights activism

In January 1969 Dunn founded the Scottish Minorities Group, holding its inaugural meeting in his parents' house in Glasgow. His early activism was inspired by the fact that 1967 reforms in the law concerning gay sex only applied to England and Wales and thus gay sex continued to be illegal in Scotland. Dunn took a leading role in legalising gay sex in Scotland, and along with two other activists he took the case to the European Court of Human Rights. In 1980 the previous reforms of 1967 reforms were extended to cover Scotland.

The Scottish Minorities Group later re-branded as Outright Scotland, with Dunn also running the organisation.

In 1972 Dunn helped to launch ''Gay News,'' Britain's first gay newspaper.

Along with Derek Ogg, in 1974 Dunn convened the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, which was the first post-war international conference of homosexual rights movements. The event gave rise to the International Lesbian & Gay Association.

Dunn also established the Edinburgh Gay & Lesbian Community Centre in 1974.

Dunn co-presented a 1976 BBC
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