Stland is now a place where you n be glad to be gay | Val McDermid | The Guardian

Contents:

• STLAND IS NOW A PLACE WHERE YOU N BE GLAD TO BE GAY
• THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT PEOPLE WHO WERE DISMISSED OM ARY UNR ‘GAY BAN’

STLAND IS NOW A PLACE WHERE YOU N BE GLAD TO BE GAY

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.

Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology. It sets out our jot prri for liverg equaly for lbian, gay, bi and trans people, and people wh a variatn sex characteristics or who are tersex (I/VSC) the 2021-2026 parliamentary term. The Equaly Network is a leadg Sttish lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) equaly and human rights chary.

Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1988 Stland, England and Wal, banned lol thori om tentnally promotg homosexualy or publishg material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy and further, banned the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship.

THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE

We’ve livered the most progrsive and extensive equal marriage legislatn, a pardon for historil ‘homosexual offenc’, and equal civil partnerships. We believe an tnal approach to tacklg homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic bullyg and prejudice schools is sential.

Sttish Labour said they are “the party of equaly: we will work to build a society ee om all forms of sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, racism, antisemism and Islamophobia, discrimatn agast disabled people and bigotry and prejudice all their forms. The Sttish Conservativ said “schools should emphasise the importance of rpect, tolerance and equaly an age appropriate way to prevent bullyg, racism, homophobia and misogyny. Sttish Labour said “blood donatns still discrimate agast gay and bisexual men and their partners, unrmg our public health strategy.

The Sttish Lib Dems “will support anti-racism and antihomophobia mpaigns and work to make sport clive and tolerant of discrimatn at all levels. But, 2022, LGBT+ Labour was forced to apologise for vg “genr cril” journalist Helen Lewis to take part a panel discsn about the legacy of Mreen Colquhoun, Bra’s first openly gay MP. If I need any further affirmatn that my choice to return to Stland two years ago was the right one, this was Davidson, lear of the Sttish Conservative party, is openly gay.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT PEOPLE WHO WERE DISMISSED OM ARY UNR ‘GAY BAN’

Beg an openly gay woman the notorly macho world of Sttish newspapers was not an easy choice, eher personally or profsnally. But sce Dugdale me out, she’s had only msag of support and gratu om those of glad to see another public role mol for young gay ’s clear to me that the untry that I have e back to is not the untry I left.