Outside of local politics, Horsfall criticised the lack of Labour Party solidarity in Parliament in the decriminalisation of homosexuality, particularly after the failure of Kenneth Robinson's 1960 proposal.
Grey put in contact Horsfall with Stanley Rowe and Colin Harvey, who soon became the core Committee members of the NWHLRC.
Although Horsfall was initially concerned about his safety and the response of his local mining community to his activism, they appeared indifferent, thus suggesting that Northern working-class sentiment was not as harsh at the time as expected.
On 30 July 1971 Allan was part of a CHE public meeting in Burnley Central Library, called "Homosexuals & Civil Liberties".
[5] The play was commissioned by LGBT History Month to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 and was performed at the original site of the 1971 CHE meeting "Homosexuals & Civil Liberties" in Burnley Central Library.