<p class="text-align-justify">The ILGA's 'Rainbow Europe Index' assesses development in European countries on LGBTI+ equality against a 48-point criterion which involves legal protections from employment and services discrimination, measures to combat hate crime, equality in family law, and transgender and intersex people's rights and recognition, including same-sex marriage and parenting rights. Scotland first led the index in 2015, and it has remained around the top since then.<br />
Even though, the country prides itself as the most progressive one in Europe when it comes to gender and sexuality. Unfortunately, it wasn't always so accepting of homosexual males.</p>

<p class="text-align-justify">Until 1980, homosexuality was prohibited among males in Scotland. Women's same-sex interaction was never made illegal and was not prohibited by law. Scottish culture simply decided to think that lassies did not behave in this manner.<br />
When the Sexual Offences Act was signed into law on July 27, 1967, it only applied to Wales and England; Scotland and Northern Ireland were left out.<br />
The historic changes that partly decriminalized homosexuality among two consenting males in private over the age of 21 have already passed 50 years in Wales and England.</p>
