Lib Dems back gay upl | Polics | The Guardian

Contents:

• EX-LIB DEM MARK OATEN SAYS HE IS NOW 'FORTABLE WH BEG GAY'
• LIB DEMS' SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE 'CYNIL', SAYS FORMER STONEWALL CHIEF
• LIB DEMS BACK GAY UPL
• DUNN SLAMS LIB DEMS GAY RIGHTS ROW
• LIB DEM LEAR TIM FARRON ACCED OF 'ILLIBERAL' APPROACH TO GAY RIGHTS

EX-LIB DEM MARK OATEN SAYS HE IS NOW 'FORTABLE WH BEG GAY'

PRINCETON, NJ -- Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr rema signifintly more likely than non-LGBT Amerins to intify as Democrats. 6% of adults who were asked the polil qutns intified themselv as "lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. The feral ernment recently released s own report on the percentage of Amerins 2013 who intified as lbian, gay, or bisexual s Natnal Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and timated that total as 2.

LIB DEMS' SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE 'CYNIL', SAYS FORMER STONEWALL CHIEF

Var methodologil differenc between the two surveys may acunt for the differenc the timat, cludg that the NHIS survey was nducted person, asked about lbian/gay stat and bisexual stat separately, and did not ask for intifitn as transgenr.

"From beg the first party to openly oppose Sectn 28 - an abhorrent law that prohibed the so-lled 'promotn of homosexualy' - to the tirels work of Barons Lynne Featherstone and other Liberal Democrat Misters gettg ​​the Same Sex Marriage Act passed 2013. Mark Oaten, the one-time Liberal Democrat risg star who left polics 13 years ago after emerged that he had been regularly payg male sex workers while married, has said he is now gay, and livg wh another former Lib Dem home affairs spokman and MP for Wchter, who was standg to bee the party’s lear until jt before the revelatns 2006, said had taken him until now to go public wh his sexualy.

LIB DEMS BACK GAY UPL

“I’m gay now, and I’m fortable wh beg gay and I’m clear about my sexualy, ” he told BBC Rad 5 Live.

I have a group of great gay iends.

LGBT+ Lib Dems are revoltg over the cisn to adm “homophobic” Phillip Lee, sayg prov the party’s mment to LGBT+ rights “is far too easily disrd”.

DUNN SLAMS LIB DEMS GAY RIGHTS ROW

She explaed her reasons for leavg a sthg blog post that scrib Lee as “a homophobe, a xenophobe, and someone who thks people should be barred om the untry if they are ill”. ️ Are you fortable wh Phillip Lee’s views on gay rights?? “And that’s whout even gog to the whole ttg migrants for HIV or Hepatis — which was specifilly signed to keep migrants out — and votg agast same-sex marriage, which is prima facie homophobic, ” she add.

“Now I n’t know his motivatns for sure, but seems odd that he only sgled out diseas that homophob associate wh LGBT people and ignored all other diseas. “The amendment they are referrg to was an attempt to rce somethg lled viral load, to rce the HIV rriage Great Bra, that actually would protect the gay muny.

The Liberal Democrats have been acced of actg a "cynil and opportunistic" way when they cid to back gay marriage shortly after g to power May Summerskill, who stepped down last month as chief executive of Stonewall after nng the gay rights chary for 11 years, said was polilly expedient for the Lib Dems to back a policy that put a distance between themselv and the Conservative party at a time when there was enormo disquiet about the two parti formg a told the Observer that he stood by his remarks, ma for a Rad 4 programme, and had been nvced of the Lib Dems' cynicism when former MP Evan Harris greeted the nference vote to adopt gay marriage by sayg: "This is great bee we put clear blue water between and the Tori. ""Note that he didn't say, 'hurrah – this is great news for gay upl or for equaly', " said Summerskill.

LIB DEM LEAR TIM FARRON ACCED OF 'ILLIBERAL' APPROACH TO GAY RIGHTS

All you have to do is look at the Lib Dem manifto May 2010, even their gay manifto, and gay marriage don't appear. "Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell agreed, and add that Stonewall owed both the LGBT muny and the Lib Dems an apology.