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|honorific-prefix = |name = Jeff Dudgeon |honorific-suffix = MBE |image = |alt = |caption = |office = Member of Belfast City Council |constituency = Balmoral |term_start = 22 May 2014 |term_end = |predecessor = New DEA |successor = |birth_date = |birth_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland |death_date = |death_place = |restingplace = |birthname = |nationality = British |party = Ulster Unionist Party |spouse = |relations = |children = |residence = Windsor, Belfast |alma_mater = Magee University College Trinity College, Dublin |occupation = |profession = Historian |religion = Anglican |signature = |website = }}Jeffrey Edward Anthony "Jeff" Dudgeon MBE is a Northern Irish politician, historian and gay political activist. He currently sits as a Ulster Unionist Party councillor for the Balmoral area of Belfast City Council.[1][2] He is best known for bringing a case to the European Court of Human Rights which successfully challenged Northern Ireland's laws criminalising consensual sexual acts between men in private. He is one of three openly gay politicians elected to the City Council along with Mary Ellen Campbell of Sinn Féin and Julie-Anne Corr of the Progressive Unionist Party.[3] He has also published a study of Roger Casement's Black Diaries, which accepted them as genuine. In 1979 he stood as a Labour Integrationist candidate for Belfast South in the 1979 General election. Personal lifeHe is originally from east Belfast and attended Campbell College then Magee University College and Trinity College, Dublin. He has a long term partner. HonoursAs part of the 2012 New Year Honours, Dudgeon was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for "services to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in Northern Ireland".[4] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.u.tv/vote14/council.aspx?id=9| title=Belfast City Council results |date=17 May 2014 |website=UTV}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jun/04/gay-rights-campaigner-ulster-unionists |title=Gay rights campaigner defends Ulster Unionist membership |date=4 June 2013 |website=The Guardian}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/elections/three-gay-politicians-on-newly-elected-belfast-city-council-30304675.html |title=Three openly gay politicians on newly elected Belfast City Council |date=26 May 2014 |website=Belfast Telegraph}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=60009 |date=31 December 2011 |pages=13–15 |supp=y }} External links
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