Results 1-7 of 7 for gay speaker:Julian Lewis

Business of the House (31 Jan 2002)

Dr Julian Lewis: ...any action can only lead people to conclude that the Commonwealth, the United Nations and the British Government, taken together, have taken less effective action against Robert Mugabe than did the gay campaigner Peter Tatchell. Will the Leader of the House now promise us a debate or a statement on the terrible situation in Zimbabwe?

Zimbabwe (23 Jan 2002)

Dr Julian Lewis: ...for South Africa to impose direct sanctions on Zimbabwe by cutting transport links and stopping fuel and electricity supplies. That call will evidently fall on deaf ears. The sad fact is that the gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has achieved more effective action against Robert Mugabe than the Commonwealth, the United Nations, the EU and the Governments of Britain and South Africa put...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (10 Feb 2000)

Dr Julian Lewis: ...from unprotected anal sex, whether between males and males or males and females. Unprotected sex occurs more frequently between homosexual males than between straight couples and of course between gay women. The Bill legalises homosexual relations—

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (10 Feb 2000)

Dr Julian Lewis: ...her views on many subjects but I disagree with her on this one. She has used anecdotal evidence, so I remind the House of something that I said when the matter was last before us. The only known gay boy in my secondary school—he was mercilessly teased and bullied and I felt great sympathy for him—told me that he started on the road to being homosexual when he was under-age...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill: Exceptions (10 Feb 1999)

Dr Julian Lewis: ...have considerable experience of the way in which pressure groups operate and I have the impression that two pressure groups are operating tonight—an external pressure group in the form of the gay lobby and an internal pressure group in the form of the Government Whips, who seem to have carved a deal on the way in which Labour Members must conduct themselves in these proceedings. I...

Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill: Exceptions (10 Feb 1999)

Dr Julian Lewis: ...my words will faintly shine a bit of a spotlight on to my own motivations in opposing the provision. Although I know that Labour Members would like to portray me as some sort of secret hater of gays who does not have the courage to say so—[Interruption.] Yes, that is what they would like to do. I tell both Labour Members and my hon. Friends that my first experience of meeting a young...

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

Dr Julian Lewis: What causes the disproportion in the prevalence of HIV among gay men? I am not talking about Africa, where other factors come into play. What can be the cause be, other than anal sex? Has my hon. Friend or anyone else any idea?