Pride 2021: NI's biggest gay nightclub no longer opening for weekend.“There was a meeting organised to decide who would get their travel paid.” Read More Related Articles “There was money left over from his case which had been used by NIGRA to send a few representatives across to London Pride every year,” explained Niall. Some sexual acts between consenting adult men were still illegal in Northern Ireland even though England and Wales had changed their laws - and in 1981 he won his case leading to a change in NI law. Jeffrey Dudgeon, then a Belfast shipping clerk, filed a complaint with the European Commission for Human Rights after being quizzed by the RUC about his sex life for around four and a half hours. Niall, left, at Pride 2018 with his partner Clint