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'
- JOHNSON HAS LGBT 'BLD SPOT', SAYS FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MISTER
- BORIS JOHNSON: U.K. GAY CONVERSN BAN ONLY AFTER GOVERNMENT STUDY
- BORIS JOHNSON VOWS TO BAN 'ABSOLUTELY ABHORRENT' GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY'
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. * is boris johnson gay *
Boris Johnson has a long rerd of ntroversial ments about women, gay people and ethnic has lled gay men "bumboys, " and pared Mlim women to "letterbox. "You n listen to the rerdg here:Homophobia.
Wrg the Spectator 2000, Johnson attacked what he lled "Labour's appallg agenda, enuragg the teachg of homosexualy schools, and all the rt of . "In his 2001 book "Friends, Voters, Countrymen, " Johnson pared gay marriage to btialy, wrg that "If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncerta on the issue – then I saw no reason prciple why a unn should not be nsecrated between three men, as well as two men, or ed three men and a dog.
JOHNSON HAS LGBT 'BLD SPOT', SAYS FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MISTER
The UK's first openly gay bet mister, Lord Smh, urg the PM to diversify his top team. * is boris johnson gay *
There was even more explic homophobia. "He add that Manlson's parture would e the "lipstick" to e away om Blair's a separate Telegraph lumn Johnson also bewailed attempts to crease equaly at the BBC for gay people. There were letters om gays askg about their "partner's" right to a BBC pensn.
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.
BORIS JOHNSON: U.K. GAY CONVERSN BAN ONLY AFTER GOVERNMENT STUDY
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. 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 .
BORIS JOHNSON VOWS TO BAN 'ABSOLUTELY ABHORRENT' GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY'
"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”.
? U-TURN ON THE U-TURN ? The Prime Mister has changed his md off the back of the reactn to our report and he WILL now ban nversn therapy after Govt source absolutely assur me ’ll be Queen’s only gay nversn therapy, not trans.