Ken Livingstone has denounced alleged Conservative hypocrisy on sexual issues, declaring that the party was ‘riddled’ with homosexuality
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron threatens to withhold aid from countries that do not reform legislation banning homosexuality.
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BBCPolitics on 30th Oct 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
It is 50 years since the release of Victim, a ground-breaking film about homosexuality that was granted an X-certificate. Writing in the latest issue of the Spectator (subscribers click here), John Coldstream explains the significance of this frank and truthful film and its contribution to the national debate about decriminalising homosexuality. It was made four years after the publication of Sir ...
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Spectator on 2nd Sep 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
Richard Flowers reported here on Lib Dem Voice last week Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock’s grave concerns for a Portsmouth constituent facing deportation back to Uganda — Robert Segwanyi is gay, and argues he was imprisoned and tortured in his home country, where homosexuality is illegal. (Michael Andrewes, Mr Hancock’s constituency researcher offered further background
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 20th Aug 2011 (via libdemvoice.org)
Robert Segwanyi is a gay man from Uganda. Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, and Robert was imprisoned and, he says, tortured because he is gay. In June last year, he escaped and fled to Britain. Now the UK Boarders Agency want to send him back. UKBA does not accept he is gay and a judge
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 9th Aug 2011 (via libdemvoice.org)
A DECISION to allow the head of an American university to speak at Holyrood, despite his college labelling homosexuality "inappropriate", has been criticised by MSPs.
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Scotsman on 15th Jun 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
Johann Hari… Informing children about these facts can’t make them gay. Nothing can. You can no more teach a child homosexuality than you can teach them left-handedness. Oddly, the homophobes seem to understand this about their own sexuality, but not about other people’s. I once asked Michael Howard, the architect of Section 28, if he
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SimO on 28th Jan 2011 (via sim-o.me.uk)
An MP removes a blog entry in which he criticised a plan to teach children about homosexuality for "imposing questionable sexual standards".
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BBCPolitics on 25th Jan 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)