Dudley Scott Cave
Dudley Scott Cave (1921–1999) was a homosexual and LGBT activist in England, and a member of Peter Tatchell’s Outrage group for the lowering of the age of consent. Cave, like so many other LGBT activists, was a public defender of pedophilia.
In 1992, Cave wrote an angry letter to Social Work Today protesting against the prosecution of Peter Righton on child-pornography charges. Righton, one of the co-founders of PIE, was one of the most infamous pedophile criminals of the 20th-century. He ran a child-abuse network in schools and care-homes all over the UK for thirty years and is now known to have raped countless boys. Cave's letter seemed to suggest that he knew Righton personally as he called him a "responsible adult", and wrote that "the trial itself is obscene". He asserted that child pornography was "a crime without a victim" and added that he was a septuagenarian but if he wanted to be stimulated by erotic pictures or videos he would defy the law and go ahead. Another article in Social Work Today around this time referred to Righton being prosecuted for photographs of "young men" not boys.[1]
When Cave died in 1999, Peter Tatchell wrote a laudatory obituary for him in The Independent newspaper, calling Cave a "gay rights champion".[2]
Cave is held up as a hero in UK LGBT History Month.[3]
