Policians ignore the gay vote at their peril, says lawyer and human rights specialist Jonathan Cooper
Contents:
- BORIS JOHNSON LLED GAY MEN 'TANK-TOPPED BUMBOYS' AND BLACK PEOPLE 'PICNNI' WH 'WATERMELON S'
- BORIS JOHNSON: I'M FAVOUR OF GAY MARRIAGE AND I N'T SEE WHAT ALL THE FS IS ABOUT
BORIS JOHNSON LLED GAY MEN 'TANK-TOPPED BUMBOYS' AND BLACK PEOPLE 'PICNNI' WH 'WATERMELON S'
UK Prime Mister Boris Johnson has a long rerd of makg offensive ments about women, ethnic mori and gay people. * boris johnson gay *
Boris Johnson, who has rigned as lear of the Uned Kgdom's Conservative Party and therefore will be replaced as prime mister, leav a largely negative rerd on LGBTQ+ has supported marriage equaly but not embraced transgenr rights, and wrten articl wh homophobic and racist slurs that he claimed were satiril. And gay members of his ernment have acced him of creatg an "atmosphere of hostily" toward LGBTQ+ people. When he took office as prime mister, succeedg Thera May, ncerns were raised about lumns he'd wrten that ntaed homophobic and racist 1998, while workg as a journalist, Johnson referred to gay men as "tank-topped bumboys" a lumn for the Telegraph newspaper.
The subject was the rignatn of Peter Manlson, who is gay, as foreign secretary Prime Mister Tony Blair's ernment.
BORIS JOHNSON: I'M FAVOUR OF GAY MARRIAGE AND I N'T SEE WHAT ALL THE FS IS ABOUT
He also said Manlson's parture would remove the "lipstick" om Blair's 2000, Johnson wrote a lumn the Spectator magaze nouncg the Labour Party's "appallg agenda, enuragg the teachg of homosexualy schools, and all the rt of .
Johnson likewise supported the repeal of Sectn 28, a law that prevented schools and lol ernments om "promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship, " even though he had cricized Labour's efforts to repeal .
"It will give tailored pastoral support to transgenr people as well as those who are lbian, gay or bisexual, " the BBC reported week Mike Freer, a mister the Equali Office, rigned that post and lambasted Johnson. As a gay MP, that should have been a liberatg, enjoyable experience, stead due to the damage our party has flicted on self over the failure to clu trans people the ban on nversn therapy, was a huiatg experience and signalled to me the immense damage that has been so needlsly flicted after years of hard work by many to rebuild the damage of Sectn 28. In a move unlikely to end the ntroversy, Brand said the legislatn would ver “only gay nversn therapy, not trans”.