Results 1-7 of 7 for gay speaker:Frank Dobson

London's Health Service (6 May 1999)

Mr Frank Dobson: ...bomb outrages in Brixton, Brick lane and Soho. The staff involved all did an amazingly good job. Like the victims, the staff who tended to them were black, white, Asian, men and women, straight and gay, all united in that singular humanitarian ethic that towers above all others—the commitment to help our fellow humans when they are in desperate need. In Brixton, 15 ambulances and...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Prohibition on Promoting Homosexuality by Teaching or by Publishing Material. (9 Mar 1988)

Mr Frank Dobson: Will my hon. Friend bear in mind that possibly the first effort of any Government Department in this sphere was in 1984 when certain literary giants employed by the Customs and Excise raided the Gay's the Word bookshop in my constituency and, exercising their brilliant discretion, confiscated, because they believed it to be obscene, a book which set out the proceedings of the first medical...

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (21 Nov 1986)

Mr Frank Dobson: ...decline. God knows how they explain why we deserve to get cancer or influenza. The position was made even worse by the fact that the first references in this country were to its appearing in the gay community and by the hysterical response of the cheap Tory tabloid press to that fact. It is against that background that we need to look at the Government's performance. They have tried of...

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (21 Nov 1986)

Mr Frank Dobson: ...fortune, family and career for someone they loved or even merely fancied. We should not minimise the problems that face anyone seeking to abate or even change the course of sexual activity. Among gay men, AIDS and the deaths from it have led to some modification of sexual habits, but not all gay men have modified their habits even though they are acutely aware of the dangers. Among...

Policing (London) (28 Jun 1985)

Mr Frank Dobson: ...face by the Government and the appointment of 50 new customs officers should be put into perspective? Customs and Excise deployed more than 40 officers to raid and read the books taken from the "Gay's The Word" bookshop.

Prayers: Policing in the Metropolis (11 May 1984)

Mr Frank Dobson: ..., violent and nasty things going on in the city. The reason why I say that we might as well have been talking to the wall is that in my constituency there is a public house, the Bell, which is frequented by gay people. On the following Sunday even by their own estimate, the police accept that between 50 and 60 uniformed policemen descended on that pub because there was drinking after...

Education (Assisted Places) (9 Feb 1983)

Mr Frank Dobson: How can the hon. Gentleman gay that? Has he read the HMI report?