Edited sentence: On August 8, 1978 the Congress became the International Gay Association.The ILGA can be linked with organisations advocating pedophilia as far back as its inception in 1978.The SMG was one of the founding organisations represented at ILGA's first meeting,.The first International Gay Rights Congress took place in Edinburgh in December 1974, organised by the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG), of which the UK pedophile-rights organisation, the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), was a special interest group.and the CHE itself was involved to some extent with pedophile-rights (at the 1977 CHE conference, for example, there was a CHE workshop on pedophilia).at a meeting held at the annual conference of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in Coventry, United Kingdom