Results 1-20 of 21 for gay speaker:Lord Stratford

New Schedule: Sexual conduct to prejudice of good order and discipline (9 May 1996)

Mr Tony Banks: ...that survey, although there is not time to go into the matter tonight. I understand that no anonymity was given to those who were questioned. Who will come forward and say that they think that gays should be allowed to serve in the armed forces? Even if a person who did so was heterosexual, one could imagine what would be said to him afterwards. The finger of suspicion would be pointed at...

New clause 3: Amendment of Law Relating to (21 Feb 1994)

Mr Tony Banks: ..., and more importantly, the Wolfenden report says that those young people would be set apart from society. Does that not say something about the discrimination that society holds against young gay men? It is a problem of society, not of those young men.

New clause 3: Amendment of Law Relating to (21 Feb 1994)

Mr Tony Banks: ...sexual orientation at the age of 16? If so, and assuming that it was a heterosexual orientation, does he not think that a young man of 16 could feel certain that, in his sexual orientation, he was gay?

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Discipline) (21 Jun 1993)

Mr Tony Banks: I should like to know how many gay soldiers laid down their lives during the last war. No one knew that they were gay. The hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) ought to bear that in mind when he quotes that story as an argument to support his views, which I find wholly unacceptable and unpersuasive. The Minister referred to ethnic monitoring. I believe that it is right that we should...

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Discipline) (21 Jun 1993)

Mr Tony Banks: ...and it is worth reading them into the record. They are, however, distasteful, so I shall quote just some of them. Experienced medics are told that men suspected of being passive partners in a gay sex act can be spotted by their "feminine gestures", clothes and make up. No doubt they go around saying, "Give us a kiss, sailor." It is absurd that such guidelines are issued as a means of...

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Discipline) (21 Jun 1993)

Mr Tony Banks: ...of NATO countries, however, being homosexual is not an offence, as it is in the British armed forces. Ireland and the United States are in the process of changing their laws to allow lesbians and gays to serve in their armed forces. Australia ended its ban on homosexuals serving in its armed forces in November 1992; Canada did the same in October 1992. The armed forces of Austria and...

Prayers: Policing (London) (18 Oct 1991)

Mr Tony Banks: Does my hon. Friend agree that it is a misallocation of police resources to get involved in the entrapment of gay men? We are talking about victimless crimes. The idea that prosecution should take place is clearly wrong. Also, the police should not get themselves involved in trying to entrap those people.

Armed Forces (Discipline) (17 Jun 1991)

Mr Tony Banks: ...were sitting safely at home. Clearly, we can no longer prove the point, but it appears that the fighting ability—perish the thought; I do not like talk about fighting ability—of a gay man or lesbian woman is in no way impaired by his or her sexual orientation. In the report the Stonewall group makes it quite clear that other NATO countries do not treat homosexuals in their...

Policing in London (13 Jul 1990)

Mr Tony Banks: ...the incidence of racial attacks in the London borough of Newham, the east end and Tower Hamlets. My hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) referred to the attacks on lesbians and gay men. There is something almost perverted in the policy of entrapment adopted by the Metropolitan police and other police forces. The number of prosecutions of gay men and the number of...

Litter (23 Jun 1989)

Mr Tony Banks: ..., could be of more assistance by arguing in favour of more resources for his borough to deal with many of the pressing problems that exist there rather than producing his usual anecdotes about gay and lesbian groups. When I check up on what the hon. Member says about his borough, and I always do that, I often find that his "facts" and reality do not always coincide. I suspect that was...

Business of the House (15 Jun 1989)

Mr Tony Banks: ...I have photographs of them—in various streets in London put out by Flowers brewery which say: Not all flowers are pansies". Is he aware that everyone knows that the slang word pansy refers to gay men and that that advertisement is causing a great deal of offence? I have received a number of complaints from my constituents. Those advertisements appear to have gone up in what one can...

Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill (31 Oct 1988)

Mr Tony Banks: ...Members have suggested that the only reason why Labour local authorities have become involved in creative accounting is to spend more money —on women's committees, police committees and gay and lesbian committees. Some have, and I welcome the fact that they have brought this new and necessary dimension into local government. Let us be clear: the amount of money that all local...

Local Government Finance Bill (17 Dec 1987)

Mr Tony Banks: ...was perfectly reasonable bearing in mind what was being said about them. The hon. Member for Lancaster (Mrs. Kellett-Bowman) commented on something that was said about the fire-bombing of Capital Gay. She thought that it was a good idea. I found that more insulting to the good standards of Parliament than anything that was going on—

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Prohibition on Promoting Homosexuality by Teaching or by Publishing Material (15 Dec 1987)

Mr Tony Banks: ...' charter. I know that many hon. Members on both sides of the House are frightened about the implications of the clause, and many will not have the courage to stand up and say so clearly. I am not gay, but I know one thing, and it is that, if I were, I hope that I would be able to stand up and say so without any fear of intimidation or threat, either from within the House or from outside...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Prohibition on Promoting Homosexuality by Teaching or by Publishing Material (15 Dec 1987)

Mr Tony Banks: Let me ask the Minister a question. During the past year, Gay Sweatshop has played in local authority theatres in Liverpool, Stockton, Reading, Birmingham, Camden, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and York. What happens when its members perform in one of those theatres? Will the local authority — [Interruption.] Obviously, my comments amuse the Crawley food mountain. I hope that the hon....

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Prohibition on Promoting Homosexuality by Teaching or by Publishing Material (15 Dec 1987)

Mr Tony Banks: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I heard the hon. Member for Lancaster (Mrs. Kellett-Bowman) say that it was quite right that Capital Gay should have been fire—

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Prohibition on Promoting Homosexuality by Teaching or by Publishing Material (15 Dec 1987)

Mr Tony Banks: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way; it is very unusual. I would certainly want to be protected from him. Did he think of inviting any gay groups from Ealing to the conference, which he carefully loaded to get the version of events that he wanted, to achieve the open debate that he said he was trying to encourage?

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (3 Mar 1987)

Mr Tony Banks: ...for Leicester, East, ran out an annoying list which did not amount to a row of beans in financial terms. When a local authority is spending money on policies aimed at ending discrimination against gays or lesbians, it is not the amount of money that upsets Tory Members, it is the principle. Even if it was only a matter of a few pounds, it would still offend and outrage them. When local...

Local Government (5 Dec 1986)

Mr Tony Banks: ...with the various anti-sexist, anti-racist and anti-discrimination policies that have been pursued by certain local councils. If a local council tries to do something about discrimination against gays and lesbians, why is there such an enormous reaction on the Conservative Benches? Do Conservative Members believe that we should do nothing to try to end discrimination against gays and...

Greater London Council (27 Mar 1986)

Mr Tony Banks: ...the council in advancing the interests of London's women. The same is true in respect of our policies to combat racism and the discrimination still suffered by those Londoners with disabilities, by gays, lesbians and the elderly. It is right that the GLC should have funded groups concerned with the welfare of gays and lesbians, but so vile and reactionary are the majority of Fleet street...