Campaign launched for memorial to Derek Ogg QC
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Derek Ogg QC
A campaign has been launched calling on Edinburgh Council to commission a memorial for Derek Ogg QC, who passed away last May at the age of 65.
The petition has been created by Scott Glanville and urges the council to “fund and commission a memorial to honour the memory of Derek Ogg”.
Mr Glanville writes: “Derek was a campaigning lawyer who used his influence as a legal professional to successfully campaign for the decriminalisation of gay sex/same sex relationships in Scotland in the 1970s.
“In the 1980s He founded Scottish Aids Monitor (SAM) of which was the first Aids charity in the country. He also helped in the set up of Waverley Care of which was established to build the Aids Hospice in Edinburgh, the first of its kind in the whole of the UK.”
He adds: “Through his own experience of living in Scotland as a gay man throughout the 60s and 70s, he knew the oppression that many people like him faced. He went on to use his experience as an incentive that spurred him on to work tirelessly to make progressive changes to Scottish society. It is in part, thanks to him, that the LGBTQ+ community now live in far more progressive Scotland today.”
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