Results 1-15 of 15 for gay speaker:Angela Eagle

Written Answers — Treasury: Census: Sexuality (3 Mar 2008)

Angela Eagle: ...(ONS) has undertaken on the inclusion of a question relating to sexuality on the 2011 Census and what estimate has been made of the number of UK residents who consider themselves to be (a) gay male, (b) male bisexual, (c) female bisexual and (d) transgender; and what methodology the Office uses to make any such estimates. I am replying in her absence. (190327, 190328) ONS has undertaken...

Business of the House (17 May 2007)

Angela Eagle: Today is the international day against homophobia. Will my right hon. Friend find Government time for us to debate the great progress that we have made in restoring and giving civil rights to gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the past 10 years, and also to debate the fact that in 75 countries being gay is illegal, and that in nine countries the penalty is death?

Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read. (21 Nov 2005)

Angela Eagle: I agree, and there are many other examples of gay people being blatantly denied access to goods and services that others take for granted. It is right that this House takes a stand, and puts a stop to that.

Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read. (21 Nov 2005)

Angela Eagle: I am sorry to hear the hon. Lady say that. I do not see why there should be an exemption in that case. It is hard when people are refused a hotel room simply for being a gay couple, when it is currently illegal for an ethnic minority couple to be refused a hotel room. I am sad to hear the hon. Lady's comments and I do not agree with her. Today, Labour Members should celebrate our record on...

Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]: New Clause 1 — Categories of civil partners other than same sex couples (9 Nov 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: .... It is invidious and divisive but totally predictable that the hon. Member for Gainsborough is trying to use this inappropriate legislative vehicle, first, to prove his so-called point about gay marriage and, secondly, to wreck the Bill.

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 253 - Commencement (26 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...very good job, are aware of how best to approach the issues before them when considering whether people who live in the same house are presenting as living together as husband and wife, be it in a gay or lesbian relationship or a heterosexual cohabiting relationship?

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords] (26 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...arises because I did not check the record before it was printed, as one has a chance to do, and I apologise to the Committee for that. In my speech, which begins in column 104, I used the phrase ''gay and lesbian people'' rather a lot. However, Hansard has recorded ''gay'' but missed out ''lesbian''. In some areas, ''gay'' refers overwhelmingly to men and does not include women. I just...

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 11 - Proposed civil partnership to be publicised (21 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...of making things practically and psychologically more difficult for those wishing to enter into civil partnerships. It takes no account of the problems that printing a local address may cause two gay people who are forming a civil partnership and to whom threats have been made. There are some dangers to safety, and the hon. Gentleman, with his characteristic indifference, decides not to...

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 9 - Notice of proposed civil partnership and declaration (21 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...be the case. Practically that is so because of the extensions of what I can only describe as living-in-sin time from seven days to six months, but I presume that the hon. Gentleman thinks that all gay people exist and live in sin anyway, so making them live in sin for six more months before they can contract a civil partnership should not make any difference to their immortal souls....

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 9 - Notice of proposed civil partnership and declaration (21 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: In a minute. The hon. Gentleman's amendment, which would force gay people to register their civil partnership where they live, fails not only to take account of homophobia but has the practical effect of making it harder in some cases to register a civil partnership.

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 9 - Notice of proposed civil partnership and declaration (21 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: I am never quite certain. The key point is that, regardless of the criminal law, many gay people have lived with the reality of such crime. We know that murder is against the law, but it still sometimes happens and people who have to deal with risk in their everyday lives have to be sensible about how they deal with it.

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 9 - Notice of proposed civil partnership and declaration (21 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: In a minute. The hon. Gentleman should recognise that gay people who have been subject to such attacks have developed ways of dealing with them and knowledge of where they are more or less vulnerable to them. It may not be desirable, but it is practical.

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Eligibility (21 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: I oppose the hon. Gentleman's amendment because it again seems to create a difference between heterosexual people and gay and lesbian people, this time with respect to whether they can enter civil partnerships or get married. Although he has not mentioned it, the implications are that the age of consent should somehow be unequalised. We have spent a long time reaching an appropriate situation...

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Eligibility (21 Oct 2004)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...not fixed—and I do not intend to argue the matter one way or another—sexual orientations can go both ways? In other words, a 16-year-old might not be fixed as heterosexual or fixed as gay or lesbian. The hon. Gentleman argues that we should increase the age for entering into all types of partnership, whether it be marriage—civil or religious—or a civil partnership,...

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

Ms Angela Eagle: ...called the amendments an "unworkable mess" and an "absurdity". Lord Alli said—rightly, I think—that they were "spoiling amendments designed to make the Bill unworkable." The Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association said: "We do not believe that people who care for their elderly parents would want to be in a situation where they would be prevented from marrying . . . and be jointly...