The Liberal Democrats' first out gay MP Stephen Williams has lost his Bristol Wt seat after a vastatg night for his party.
Contents:
- EX-LIB DEM MARK OATEN SAYS HE IS NOW 'FORTABLE WH BEG GAY'
- LIB DEM LEAR TIM FARRON ACCED OF 'ILLIBERAL' APPROACH TO GAY RIGHTS
- FIRST OUT GAY LIB DEM MP STEPHEN WILLIAMS LOS HIS SEAT
- GAY LIB DEM DAVID LAWS SET TO RETURN TO ERNMENT ‘SOON’
- LIB DEMS' SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE 'CYNIL', SAYS FORMER STONEWALL CHIEF
- GAY LIB DEM BRIAN PADDICK QUS ONTBENCH OVER TIM FARRON’S VIEWS
- GAY LIB DEM MISTER DAVID LAWS LOS HIS SEAT
- GAY LIB
EX-LIB DEM MARK OATEN SAYS HE IS NOW 'FORTABLE WH BEG GAY'
Labour MP Ben Bradshaw says Farron is out of step wh own party after he repeatedly avoid answerg whether he thought gay sex was a s<br> * gay lib dem *
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. “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”. 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”.
LIB DEM LEAR TIM FARRON ACCED OF 'ILLIBERAL' APPROACH TO GAY RIGHTS
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️ 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. Labour puty-learship hopeful Ben Bradshaw has nmned new Liberal Democrat lear Tim Farron’s approach to gay rights as one day to his role as lear, Farron on Friday night repeatedly avoid answerg whether he regard gay sex as a s durg a live televisn terview wh Channel 4 News, sayg that to “unrstand Christiany is to unrstand that we are all sners”.
”Farron – who replaced Nick Clegg as lear of the party on Thursday – was phed on the issue aga three broadst terviews on Sunday morng and aga avoid exprsg whether or not he thought gay sex was a s. The Liberal Democrats’ first out gay MP Stephen Williams has lost his Bristol Wt seat after a vastatg night for his party.
FIRST OUT GAY LIB DEM MP STEPHEN WILLIAMS LOS HIS SEAT
Gay Lib Dem peer Lord Paddick has qu as the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Home Secretary over a rift wh lear Tim Farron. * gay lib dem *
Formerly Communi Mister, Mr Williams, who me out as gay prr to wng Bristol Wt 2005, was the first Lib Dem to w the seat sce 1935, and beme the party’s first out MP.
GAY LIB DEM DAVID LAWS SET TO RETURN TO ERNMENT ‘SOON’
Gay Lib Dem bet mister David Laws has lost his seat - spe beg one his party's most senr figur. * gay lib dem *
A strong advote of LGBT rights, particular same-sex marriage, Mr Williams last year lled for a zero tolerance approach to homophobia football, and about bs refg to serve gay upl for their weddgs. If returned to the job he held for jt three weeks, Mr Laws, the MP for Yeovil, would be the most powerful openly gay person Bra.
LIB DEMS' SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE 'CYNIL', SAYS FORMER STONEWALL CHIEF
As was the se two years ago, Amerins intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr are signifintly more Democratic than other Amerins, and are signifintly more likely to approve of Barack Obama's job performance. * gay lib dem *
” (RELATED: Send Hunter Bin IRS Whistleblower Revealed As Gay Democrat) “We’ve accumulated a ton of evince, ” Comer said. He has also claimed that man-ma chemils uld be makg children gay or transgenr.
In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job.
“People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. 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.
GAY LIB DEM BRIAN PADDICK QUS ONTBENCH OVER TIM FARRON’S VIEWS
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.
Stonewall do great work but the gay mpaign for marriage equaly faced an uphill stggle, which was ma worse by Stonewall nstantly unrmg our efforts.
Some of the arguments Ben and Stonewall put forward at the time [2010] were quoted by homophob to jtify their opposn to same-sex marriage and this was hugely damagg. "Stonewall, ncerned about the views of some wh the LGBT muny – pecially some women – that marriage has long existed as a means to subjugate women, waed for some time before cidg to back gay marriage, Summerskill Hunt, actg chief executive of Stonewall, said last week that was "credibly important" for same-sex upl civil partnerships to "upgra" to marriage.
GAY LIB DEM MISTER DAVID LAWS LOS HIS SEAT
Featherstone, who has said the troductn of gay marriage was the "happit thg ever, both for me as a polician but also for those people who love each other and who weren't treated the same as everyone else", was the first ernment mister to take proposals for gay marriage England to the Home Office – Stland had already backed same-sex weddgs. Jackson advoted for gay rights and people wh AIDS when was nsired a gay man’s disease. He did so the face of “a hell of a lot of homophobia the Black muny, ” said Ron Daniels, a former puty mpaign manager.
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State lawmakers have enacted 70 anti-LGBTQ bills so far this year, acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign, and on the mpaign trail, nservative ndidat have grown creasgly vol about their tentn to repeal gay and transgenr protectns.
But the GOP’s zeal for curtailg gay and transgenr rights shows no signs of abatg and will likely play an outsize role the 2024 mpaigns. Gay Lib Dem peer Lord Paddick has qu as the party’ Shadow Home Secretary over a rift wh lear Tim Farron.
PkNews unrstands that the row go beyond the row over whether Mr Farron believed that gay sex is a s, wh wir disagreements across other policy issu.