The Hoe of Lords has been named one of the most clive employers Bra by lbian, gay, bi and trans equaly chary Stonewall s Top 100 Employers list for 2020.
Contents:
- PEER WHO THKS BEG GAY IS A ‘DISEASE’ SPEND OM HOE OF LORDS AFTER SHOCKG TIRAS ABOUT ‘QUEERS’ AND ‘HOMOS’
- HIBOUND CHAMBER LETS DOWN ITS HAIR GAY-MARRIAGE DEBATE
- LEADG GAY ACTIVIST APPOTED TO BRISH HOE OF LORDS
- GAY MARRIAGE: HOW LORDS VOTED
PEER WHO THKS BEG GAY IS A ‘DISEASE’ SPEND OM HOE OF LORDS AFTER SHOCKG TIRAS ABOUT ‘QUEERS’ AND ‘HOMOS’
Lord Magnis, the peer acced of bullyg gay MPs and rantg about "homos", has been officially spend om the Hoe of Lords. * gay members of house of lords *
Lord Magnis, the peer acced of bullyg gay MPs and rantg about “homos”, has been officially spend om the Hoe of Lords after his lleagu voted to eject him. The polician, a former MP for Northern Ireland’s Ulster Unnist Party, was spend om the unelected upper chamber on Monday (7 December) as peers voted by 408 to 24 to back a report ncludg his abive nduct and e of homophobic language breached l on bullyg and harassment. Lord Magnis lashed out at ‘queers’ and ‘homos’.
Ken Magnis, 82, is acced of directg homophobic abe towards SNP MP Hannah Barll and Labour MP Le Pollard, who are both gay, as well as abg parliamentary secury officer Christian Bombolo. In an email wh the subject “Discrimatn by Homos”, Magnis raged: “I’m not prepared to be victimised by ‘queers’ – not least by those like Pollard and that ‘lady’ Hannah Barll, the Sts Nat who recently sought to embarrass me.
HIBOUND CHAMBER LETS DOWN ITS HAIR GAY-MARRIAGE DEBATE
Time generally march slowly the Hoe of Lords, but on the issue of gay rights, has sped up nsirably. * gay members of house of lords *
The email also boasted of his 2012 nomatn by Stonewall as bigot of the year for ments that led to his removal om the Ulster Unnist Party, when he scribed homosexualy as a “disease” and claimed equal marriage would be a “ng on the ladr” towards btialy.
She add: “As we seek to make polics and ed the natns of the UK, fairer and more jt, we mt root out abive and homophobic behavur such as that which I and others experienced at the hands of Lord Ken Magnis. Full list of Hoe of Lords members who rejected report on homophobic bullyg. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTLondon JournalHibound Chamber Lets Down Its Hair Gay-Marriage Kwood/Getty ImagJune 4, 2013LONDON — The Hoe of Lords stands as one of the great bastns of tradn here, a baroque lk to a distant, noble-centric past of pomp and pageantry.
LEADG GAY ACTIVIST APPOTED TO BRISH HOE OF LORDS
”And still another peer, 86-year-old Baron Jenk of Rodg, said he had been supportive of gay rights sce he was a llege stunt and his grandfather first explaed gay people to him. It’s for gays and lbians — I n’t possibly marry you.
”It was not the first time gay peers had spoken openly of their sexualy the chamber, or the first time their lleagu had champned gay rights. In 1999, the Lords rejected legislatn to lower the age of nsent for gay sex to 16, om 18, wh many argug — om personal boardg-school experience, seemed — that the bill would make teenage boys vulnerable to the predatory advanc of olr gay men. )The current gay marriage bill passed Febary after an angry bate the Hoe of Commons, wh many Conservativ fyg the ernment le and votg agast .
But even s most impassned crics, a passel of noble bishops among them, went out of their way, wh a few rare exceptns, to clare their firm support for gay upl and civil partnerships.
GAY MARRIAGE: HOW LORDS VOTED
“There has been a very remarkable change, ” said Lord Jenk, who remembers the vrlic, revulsn-filled Hoe of Commons bat the 1960s over crimalizg gay sex. “The massive tolerance and disgt which the ncept of homosexualy still gave exprsn to then — nobody would get away wh that today, ” he said an meant that when the lord bishop of Leicter rose to speak agast the bill on Monday he did so, he said, “as one whose rpect for and appreciatn of gay clergy is ep and who regniz them sacrificial liv and uful mistri.