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• NICK CLEGG LLS FOR GAY VICTIMS OF THE NAZIS TO BE REMEMBERED NATNAL HOLOT MEMORIAL
• ‘I SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE’ SAYS NICK CLEGG AS HE ANSWERS PKNEWS REAR QUTNS
• NICK CLEGG NAMED 'MOST GAY FRIENDLY PARTY LEAR' BY PKNEWS
• NICK CLEGG: GAY UPL SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO MARRY CHURCH
• DAVID CAMERON 'I'M NOT GAY AND NEHER IS MY IEND NICK CLEGG'
• Q&A: NICK CLEGG LLS FOR SURROGACY REFORM AND ACTN ON ‘GAY CURE’ THERAPY
• NICK CLEGG, BRISH DEPUTY PRIME MISTER, CHEERS GAY MARRIAGE VICTORY

NICK CLEGG LLS FOR GAY VICTIMS OF THE NAZIS TO BE REMEMBERED NATNAL HOLOT MEMORIAL

Is Nick Clegg Gay?

Deputy Prime Mister Nick Clegg has bee the first senr polician to back the cln of gay victims of Nazi persecutn a natnal Holot memorial.

Speakg to PkNews on Holot Memorial Day, the Lib Dem lear paid a movg tribute to the gay victims of the Nazis and to the pk triangle which he said has evolved om “a badge of shame” to “an ternatnal symbol of eedom and pri”. Rpondg to a qutn om PkNews on the importance of rememberg gay victims of the Nazis, Mr Clegg said: “Today we remember the lns of nocent people who lost their liv the Holot, one of the worst genocis known to man.

‘I SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE’ SAYS NICK CLEGG AS HE ANSWERS PKNEWS REAR QUTNS

“As we pay tribute to them, we mt never fet the tens of thoands of gay people who were so btally persecuted and executed at the hands of the Nazis, simply bee of their sexualy. Benjam Cohen, the Chief Executive of PkNews will say an article to be published alongsi Mr Clegg’s: “Keepg the pk flag flyg as an act of remembrance to the persecutn of gay people by the Nazis matters now more than ever. In 2012, the last gay survivor of the ncentratn mps, Gad Beck died.

We owe to his memory to nstantly be tellg the story of the Nazi’s persecutn of gay people. It’s cumbent for the missn to ensure that the persecutn of gay people is clud the memorial, perhaps wh the cln of the pk triangle. Acrdg to the US Holot Memorial Mm, over a ln German men were targeted by the Nazis for threateng the “discipled masculy” of Germany, and over 100, 000 were arrted unr a law crimalisg homosexualy.

NICK CLEGG NAMED 'MOST GAY FRIENDLY PARTY LEAR' BY PKNEWS

Approximately 50, 000 served prison sentenc as “nvicted homosexuals”, and around 5, 000 to 15, 000 gay men were imprisoned ncentratn mps.

Many gay men were imprisoned by the allied thori after the liberatn of the ncentratn mps as homosexualy remaed illegal. Memorials to gay victims appear Berl, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Sydney, Tel Aviv and San Francis. The overwhelmg subject mentned was gay marriage, showg how important an issue this is for our rears.

Other popular qutns were on homophobic vlence, fah schools and LGBT asylum seekers. We also gave rears the chance to ask qutns on wir policy issu, such as inty rds and stunt tun number one qutn submted by our rears was on whether Nick Clegg and his party support gay marriage. Mr Clegg said last month he supported civil partners llg themselv hband or wife but would he change the law to allow gay civil marriage?

NICK CLEGG: GAY UPL SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO MARRY CHURCH

Y, I support gay marriage. Love is the same, straight or gay, so the civil stutn should be the same, too.

DAVID CAMERON 'I'M NOT GAY AND NEHER IS MY IEND NICK CLEGG'

Should homophobic Christian street preachers or Mlims extremists be allowed to make statements like ‘homosexualy is a s”? Homosexualy is normal, and I wish everyone accepted that.

Of urse, if people are cg vlence agast gay people – or anyone else – they should be stopped. We have to show and persua people that homosexualy is normal.

Do you believe that unr a Tory ernment, gay rights would terrate? And what measur would you and your party take to brg the subject of homophobia and homosexualy to schools the UK?

Q&A: NICK CLEGG LLS FOR SURROGACY REFORM AND ACTN ON ‘GAY CURE’ THERAPY

It is never discsed my school and people n be homophobic. There is no evince that gay rights would make any progrs unr a Conservative ernment, which is one of many reasons why I’m mpaigng for a Liberal Democrat ernment!

On homophobia schools – I totally agree that change has got to e to the many schools where isn’t alt wh properly. I want every school to have an anti-homophobic bullyg policy place, that mak absolutely clear that this kd of bullyg, even if ’s subtle or suated, has to be tackled (only six per cent of schools have a policy like this).

As part of that, teachers should take appropriate opportuni to expla to pupils that homosexualy is both normal and harmls. How are you gog to ensure that school children at fah schools are not gog to be doctrated wh homophobic dogma sex tn class? Every school, cludg fah schools, should have the anti-homophobic bullyg policy place that I mentned my answer to the last qutn.

NICK CLEGG, BRISH DEPUTY PRIME MISTER, CHEERS GAY MARRIAGE VICTORY

It mt make clear that homosexualy is normal and harmls, and that teachers should expla that whenever appropriate. But my startg pot is that there are lns of people wh fah who unrstand, preach and teach that homosexualy is normal. What practil measur n Bra take to fend the rights of gay people untri like Uganda, Nigeria, Iraq and Iran (and many others) where they face active persecutn, and some s judicial murr?

I wish we uld do more; I wish we uld wave a wand and end all persecutn of gay people, as well as of women and of ethnic and relig mori. Do the Liberal Democrats believe that Brish aid to murroly homophobic Ain untri like Uganda or Malawi should bee ntgent on the untri fully crimalisg homosexualy?

I fd abhorrent that there are still untri the world where gay people are opprsed, crimalised and persecuted. But cuttg off aid to lns of people some of the poort parts of the world will only do harm, cludg to gay people, and would slow or reverse the velopment that n, so often, brg social progrs. Given the shockg crease homophobic vlence over the last year Bra (the recent attack on a young police traee Liverpool and the murr of Ian Baynham London), what would a Liberal Democrat ernment would do to make our streets safer?