Ian Dunn

Ian Campbell Dunn (1 May 1943 – 10 March 1998) was a Scottish gay rights and pro-paedophilia campaigner. and co-founded the Paedophile Information Exchange.

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.

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

Politics Dunn was a member of the Labour Party and a trade union activist in Nalgo and UNISON. He was a local council candidate for Labour, but was dropped by the party when his paedophile activism was exposed in the media. Dunn later returned to the Labour Party, and applied to become a candidate in the new Scottish Parliament.

Dunn agreed for his home in Edinburgh to be used as a contact address for paedophile theoretical journal named Minor Problems, The Ian Dunn Memorial Award is no longer listed on the official website of the Terrence Higgins Trust Scotland, which until 2007 had been responsible for managing the award.

In 1998, British LGBT+ rights activist Peter Tatchell wrote an obituary in The Independent for Dunn. However, on learning of Dunn's paedophile activism, he later stated:

Death and legacy Dunn lived in Broughton, Edinburgh and in 2018, the library featured a display concerning his life and work. The display was later removed when the library was informed of Dunn's paedophile rights work by The Times newspaper.