Results 1-20 of 22 for gay speaker:David Borrow

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: HIV/AIDS (9 Jan 2007)

David Borrow: Does my hon. Friend agree that work needs to be more targeted at younger gay men? It is important to emphasise that contracting HIV does not mean simply taking a pill a day, when everything is okay. Drug treatment for HIV is very unpleasant and is not 100 per cent. effective, so we need to get that message through to younger gay men.

[Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] — HIV/AIDS (11 May 2006)

David Borrow: ...than among women. That is a reversal of the situation in sub-Saharan Africa. It reflects a different pattern of sexual transmission. Although there is not what would be seen by western society as a gay community, it is not uncommon for men who are married and who have children to have sex with other men. That may be one of the links that creates the different pattern. The legal situation...

Orders of the Day — Civil Partnership Bill [Lords] (12 Oct 2004)

Mr David Borrow: ...in my late teens and early 20s—in the late 1960s and early 1970s—after the Sexual Offences Act 1967 was passed and compare it with what it is like now. The 1967 Act made it possible for gay men to live without such a risk of being criminalised, but it did not mean that that was easy, so few entered into lifelong relationships. In about 1971, I met a couple in Huddersfield,...

HIV/AIDS (11 Dec 2003)

Mr David Borrow: ...rights commission and the New Zealand AIDS Foundation in Auckland. We discussed how New Zealand had tackled its HIV problem in the 1980s. The country realised that the groups most at risk were gay men, intravenous drug users and sex workers and it had to do something to enable proper prevention work with all those groups. Gay sex had to be decriminalised and equal rights had to be brought...

Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: New Clause 11 — Repeal of Section 2A of Local Government Act 1986 (10 Mar 2003)

Mr David Borrow: ...when section 28 was passed and, in my first year as a member of Preston borough council, I was able to persuade the council to pass a resolution against the provision. For me and many other gay men and lesbians, section 28 and, in particular, the reference to "pretended family relationship" is deeply offensive. I regard my relationship with my partner in the same way as my sisters would...

Public Bill Committee: Local Government Bill: New Clause 1 - Repeal of prohibition on promotion of homosexuality (13 Feb 2003)

Mr David Borrow: One point that I wanted to make is that section 28, whatever its practical consequences, has caused tremendous resentment and enmity in the gay community. The feeling in the gay community is out of proportion to the practical effect. For no other reason, the removal of the section will make a great difference to how gay men and lesbians believe themselves to be considered in this country....

Public Bill Committee: Local Government Bill: New Clause 1 - Repeal of prohibition on promotion of homosexuality (13 Feb 2003)

Mr David Borrow: ...power in relation to other local government services? It is occasionally used by local authorities as an excuse to block grants to organisations that assist or provide services specifically for the gay community.

Written Answers — Health: Blood Donors (11 Mar 2002)

Mr David Borrow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what disciplinary action has been taken over the statement of the chairman of the National Blood Authority concerning gay men who consider blood donation.

Written Answers — Health: HIV/AIDS (5 Mar 2002)

Mr David Borrow: ...1999–2000 was used for targeted prevention work with (a) people with family links to sub-Sarahan Africa, (b) injecting drug users, (c) women having sex with people in at-risk groups and (d) gay and bisexual men based on AIDS Control Act reports submitted to the Department.

Orders of the Day — Prohibition on Promotion of Homosexuality: Bullying (5 Jul 2000)

Mr David Borrow: I have two brief points to make before my main argument. I was somewhat bemused by the comments of the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) and his concern for the health of gay men, in view of the situation in Glasgow, where section 28 has resulted in health work with gay men not being undertaken. I wish that some of the opponents of the repeal of section 28 would decide whether they are...

Orders of the Day — Prohibition on Promotion of Homosexuality: Bullying (5 Jul 2000)

Mr David Borrow: ...pretended family relationship is unacceptable. Does not my hon. Friend feel in any way that that introduces into legislation the suggestion that homosexual relationships are unacceptable and that gay people who have long-term family relationships with someone of the same sex are in a pretended relationship, not one of merit? Does not she consider that that contributes to homophobia?

Armed Forces (ECHR) (12 Jan 2000)

Mr David Borrow: My right hon. Friend's statement will be welcome to the many people who have long argued and campaigned for lifting the ban on gays serving in the military. In 1998, I took part in the armed forces parliamentary scheme and had numerous discussions over many months on this with various ranks. We discussed in detail how military discipline could cope with such a change and, although it was...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill: Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (1 Mar 1999)

Mr David Borrow: Several times, Conservative Members have adduced AIDS as a reason for not reducing the age of consent. All the bodies concerned with the sexual health of young gay men are unanimous in the view that the age of consent at 18 rather than 16 is a factor in increasing the number of HIV cases among young gay men and that a reduction to 16 will assist in giving proper sexual health education to 16...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill: Defences Available to Persons Who are Under Age (1 Mar 1999)

Mr David Borrow: I referred on Second Reading to the criminalisation of young gay men under the age of consent. The hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) and I tabled an amendment on that in Committee. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Minister for having thought about the issue and introduced a new clause on it. I welcome the new clause, but, as my hon. Friend has said, it still leaves...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill: Reduction in Age at Which Certain Sexual Acts are Lawful (10 Feb 1999)

Mr David Borrow: ...age that already exist for heterosexuals. Twenty-odd years ago, I saw a booklet produced by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, which dealt with the discrimination in the gamut of laws affecting gay men. The issue is complex, and I do not suggest that the Bill is necessarily the right way in which to put things right. I also realise that Ministers are conducting a sexual offences...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (25 Jan 1999)

Mr David Borrow: ...years, like many other young school boys at that time, I had to struggle with coming to terms with my sexuality. During the sixth form and my years at university, I eventually concluded that I was gay, but I knew that, despite the 1967 Act, I was still considered a criminal if I acted on the feelings and instincts that were fundamental to me. About 10 years later, in the late 1970s, when...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (25 Jan 1999)

Mr David Borrow: ...would bring many of them through the courts. Part of the issue of protection rests on the basis that some young men are not entirely sure about their sexuality. All the evidence suggests that most gay men have their first sexual experiences at about the same age as most heterosexual young men—if anything, a few months later, but at about the same age, about the age of 16. I have...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (25 Jan 1999)

Mr David Borrow: ...of all who were present for the hearings was that the existing age of consent—the age of 18—constituted a barrier to the obtaining of proper health information and promotion by young gay men. That finding has been backed by my hon. Friends who have spoken earlier today, and by the hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Woodward); it has also been supported by the British Medical...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (25 Jan 1999)

Mr David Borrow: Having peaked, the number of new HIV infections among gay men is now declining. The number of gay men in the United Kingdom who have the virus or the disease is increasing because treatment has become much more effective, and more and more gay men who have been infected by the virus are living. That has led to an overall increase in the number within the population. One or two Opposition...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (25 Jan 1999)

Mr David Borrow: ...the family is totally fallacious. Over the past 30 years, there has been a big increase in the number of family breakdowns. I find it difficult to believe that that increase is because more gay men and women are choosing to live openly as gay and to settle down with their partners, rather than, as they would have done 30 years ago, getting married to hide their sexuality, or having a...