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Pride Month ( 1 Jul 2021)

Charlotte Nichols: ...Friend the Member for Ealing North said. It is also an opportunity to highlight ongoing issues and to challenge the Government and our society to go further to reach full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people and other groups. In the years since the Labour Government came to power in 1997, we have seen dramatic action to remove barriers for LGBT people, including...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Conversion Therapy (20 Apr 2021)

Emma Sheerin: ...Alliance Party through the online petition that he started last year and, of course, the Ban Conversion Therapy alliance for its work in bringing so many people together to call out the notion that gay people need a fix or a cure. I was happy to hear from my constituents, who lobbied me on this. It is reassuring to see such consensus across parties for the banning of this cruel and...

Scottish Parliament: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill (16 Mar 2021)

Mary Fee: ...create a more equal Scotland has been a driving force in my long political life. I have held close to my heart the mission of protecting the rights of underrepresented groups including the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community; Gypsy Travellers; black and ethnic minorities and the families of prisoners. I am thankful for the opportunities that have arisen to put my beliefs into...

LGBT Conversion Therapy — [James Gray in the Chair] ( 8 Mar 2021)

Charlotte Nichols: ...important debate. So-called LGBT conversion therapies are disgusting, exploitative, damaging and a relic of bigotry. In 2021, we recognise better than ever what illness and disease look like. Being gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans is not a sickness; it is a fundamental part of an individual’s very identity. So-called LGBT conversion therapies need to be banned. I thank in particular the...

Domestic Abuse Bill - Committee (6th Day): Amendment 173 (10 Feb 2021)

Baroness Butler-Sloss: ...be gender neutral. I particularly support the noble Baroness, Lady Featherstone, in what she said about Amendment 186. But I ask the Minister to take into account in the proposed strategy that some gay men suffer from serious coercive control from family members trying to force them into a forced marriage.

Domestic Abuse Bill - Committee (3rd Day): Amendment 89 ( 1 Feb 2021)

Baroness Butler-Sloss: ...authorities. However, good Bills require to be improved, and consequently I support Amendments 93, 95, 100, 102 and 106. I remind the Government how important it is to include victims of forced marriage and modern slavery in specialist services strategy guidance for local authorities, for the proposed boards and for other organisations. The particular group that needs special support is...

Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 (28 Jan 2021)

Kirsten Oswald: ...influence on so many people. She sadly died last year, and I know we would all wish to share our condolences with Henry, a fellow Kindertransport child, with whom she spent 75 years of happy marriage and a remarkable joint commitment to sharing their testimony with thousands of schoolchildren. I have had the privilege to see some of that work at first hand, and I know the impact that Henry...

Domestic Abuse Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 6 (25 Jan 2021)

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: ...the definition of “personally connected”. Amendment 8, in the name of the noble and learned Baroness, seeks to expand the definition of “personally connected” to include victims of forced marriage or those in a situation where one person is forcing the other into a marriage with another person. As the noble and learned Baroness said, this affects a large number of people from a...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Functioning of Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Consideration Stage (24 Nov 2020)

Jim Wells: ...up a steady flow of complaints to the commissioner. I will give two recent examples. There was one from my attendance at a four-party panel discussion in Belfast, where someone asked me my view on gay marriage. I looked round the audience and thought, "If I give my views on gay marriage to this audience, first, I will not be home until about 2.00 am and, secondly, it will cause an awful...

Virtual Participation in Debate (24 Nov 2020)

Chris Bryant: ...that every single vote we ever cast in Parliament is a conscience clause, but there are specific matters that have historically been treated in the House as conscience clauses, such as abortion, gay marriage and so on. Traditionally, there has been a very strong view that when it comes to how the House does its own business and orders things, it is not a matter for the Whips. Now, some of...

Scottish Parliament: Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill (23 Jun 2020)

Patrick Harvie: ...time coming, for me. Way back when I joined the Scottish Green Party, one of the first policy motions that I brought to our party conference was on family law. That was at a time when the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was just beginning to consider the possibility that we might get some form of family-law recognition. In the first session after devolution, one of the...

Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill [Lords]: Divorce: removal of requirement to establish facts etc (17 Jun 2020)

Dehenna Davison: ...without blame, as the Bill intends, allowing both parents to move on, regain their happiness and provide not one unhappy home but two happy and loving homes for their children. Nobody enters into a marriage lightly. As my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill) outlined in his typically well-considered speech, nobody gets married setting up to get divorced....

Women and Equalities: LGBT Rights ( 6 May 2020)

Robert Largan: The Government have a strong record on LGBT rights, especially the introduction of equal marriage, which I am proud to have campaigned for. We have come a long way, but there is still work to be done. Can my right hon. Friend tell me why a married monogamous gay couple living in High Peak cannot donate blood or plasma, including for the ongoing and vital covid-19 trial?

Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Women’s Health Inequalities (10 Mar 2020)

Crispin Blunt: ...Deputy Speaker—and being coerced by the European Court of Human Rights to allow LGBT people to serve in the armed forces, to delivering adoption rights, civil partnerships and, finally, equal marriage. All those measures were taken with increasing enthusiasm by Parliament. The legal case for equality in the United Kingdom has been made. I think we can be proud of Parliament’s...

Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill [HL] - Second Reading ( 5 Feb 2020)

Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green: ...about divorce, and I will refrain from talking about my own youthful experiences. Nor will I reflect on how a no-fault divorce would have been helpful to me. What I will say is that, as a young gay woman, neither civil partnership nor marriage was an option for me. When it therefore became an option, I—and many others, I suspect—thought I should give it a go. Just because a person can...

Valedictory Debate ( 5 Nov 2019)

Nick Herbert: ...number of important areas that I have worked on in this place. They include LGBT rights, which my friend the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Stephen Twigg) mentioned, the campaign for equal marriage, setting up the all-party parliamentary group on global lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, and setting up the Global Equality Caucus, run so ably by Alan Wardle and...

5. Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Tackling LGBT Hate Crime (23 Oct 2019)

Leanne Wood: ...discrimination or poor treatment because of their ethnicity from others in their own local LGBT community, and this number rises to three in five black LGBT people. And a third of lesbian, gay and bi people of faith aren’t open with anyone in their faith community about their sexual orientation. Hate crimes don’t exist in a vacuum. Society has become more polarised and political...

Queen’s Speech - Debate (6th Day) (22 Oct 2019)

Baroness Featherstone: ...Act. During the coalition, as well as being a Home Office Minister, I was the Minister for Equalities. There, as some of your Lordships will know, I was the originator and architect of the same-sex marriage Act. I produced the first transgender action plan in the whole world and then I was reshuffled to DfID where I spearheaded and introduced the Government’s work on FGM. However, the...

Bill Presented: Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 Section 7 (30 Sep 2019)

Sammy Wilson: ..., and now they lament that we cannot get this issue dealt with as far as the victims are concerned. The Assembly will not be up and running because, for those who wanted the changes to abortion and gay marriage legislation, there is every incentive not to have it up and running. They are showing no indication that they will even engage in talks. It is important that the Secretary of State...

LGBT Community and Acceptance Teaching — [Sir Roger Gale in the Chair] ( 4 Sep 2019)

Luke Pollard: ...LGBT children’s books can have a profound effect on young people. I gave my young nephew the book “And Tango Makes Three”, which I have spoken about in the main Chamber. It is about a pair of gay penguins who adopt a baby penguin, and it is a wonderful, beautiful story that fits well on his little bookshelf. The thing that makes it so perfect is that it makes no difference to my...


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