Editing C. D. Broad (section)

=== Personal life ===
Broad was openly homosexual at a time when [[LGBT rights in the United Kingdom|homosexual acts were illegal]]. In March 1958, Broad along with fellow philosophers [[A. J. Ayer]] and [[Bertrand Russell]], writer [[J.B. Priestley]] and 27 others sent a letter to ''[[The Times]]'' which urged the acceptance of the ''[[Wolfenden Report]]'s'' recommendation that homosexual acts should "no longer be a criminal offence."<ref>[[Noel Gilroy Annan|N. G. Annan]], [[Clement Attlee|Attlee]], [[A. J. Ayer]], [[Robert Boothby]], [[C. M. Bowra]], C. D. Broad, [[Lord David Cecil|David Cecil]], [[John Collins (priest)|L. John Collins]], [[Alex Comfort]], [[A. E. Dyson]], Robert Exon, [[Geoffrey Faber]], [[Jacquetta Hawkes]], [[Trevor Huddleston]], [[Julian Huxley|C. R. Julian Huxley]], [[C. Day-Lewis]], W. R. Niblett, [[J. B. Priestley]], [[Bertrand Russell|Russell]], [[Donald Soper|Donald O. Soper]], [[Stephen Spender]], [[Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks|Mary Stocks]], [[A. J. P. Taylor]], [[E. M. W. Tillyard]], [[Alexander Roper Vidler|Alec R. Vidler]], [[Kenneth Walker (author)|Kenneth Walker]], [[Leslie Weatherhead|Leslie D. Weatherhead]], [[C. V. Wedgwood]], [[Angus Wilson]], [[John Wisdom]], and [[Barbara Wootton]]. 7 March 1958. "Letter to the Editor." ''[[The Times]]''.</ref>