On this day, 27 November 1835, James Pratt and John Smith, a groom and labourer, respectively, were executed in London for having sex. They were the last men executed in Britain for homosexuality. However, while the death penalty was no longer used as a punishment for homosexuality that in Britain itself, it was elsewhere in much of the British Empire for many years. Britain outlawed homosexuality in all of its colonies, and as of 2019 of the 72 countries which still criminalise same-sex relationships, 38 of them were previously under British rule.
This is a short account of the executions of Smith and Pratt: https://libcom.org/history/pratt-smith-last-uk-men-hanged-sodomy-frank-ryanhttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1593591177492693/?type=3
