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Dunn was inspired to act when it became obvious that the amendments to the law made by the Sexual Offences Act 1967 did not apply in Scotland.
In July 1967 he wrote to Antony Grey who was secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) in London. They met in London in September when Dunn asked about setting up a Scottish branch of the HLRS; Grey was less than enthusiastic, having experienced difficulties with the North-Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee.
In January 1969 Dunn organised the first meeting which led to the foundation of the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG).
In January 1971 he helped start SMG News and was its editor for many years.
He visited the United States and Canada in the summer of 1971 to find out how activism was organised in other countries.
In 1974 Dunn was a founder member, along with Michael Hanson , of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Although not himself a paedophile, Dunn believed in the rights of sexual minorities to organise politically. PIE was set up as a special interest group within SMG.
At the first International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh in 1974 he was involved in setting up the International Gay Association.
Also in 1974 he helped to establish the Edinburgh Gay and Lesbian Community Centre , the first such centre in Britain.
He joined the Labour Party (UK) in 1977. He had been active in labour organisations for some time, having worked for lesbian and gay rights through Edinburgh City Labour Party and the local government union NALGO .
In 1977 he became involved in the Edinburgh Books Collective, an organisation that opened a bookshop in Edinburgh called the First of May selling left-wing political and lifestyle books.
Dunn was an active Humanist minister and celebrated ceremonies of affirmation for lesbian and gay couples.
Ian Dunn died at the age of 54 with a suspected heart attack.
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