Michael Kirby's tribute to sex guru Alfred Kinsey for 'bold work'

MICHAEL Kirby, the first High Court judge to declare his homosexuality, has paid emotional tribute to the father of modern sex research Alfred Kinsey.

In a speech in the US today, the retired judge will tell graduating students of Kinsey's alma mater, Indiana University in Bloomington, that he felt less alone as a young homosexual when he heard of Kinsey's bold work documenting the sheer variety of human sexual experience.