Results 1-11 of 11 for gay speaker:Jack Straw

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Justice (7 Nov 2007) has video

Jack Straw: ...refused to act. I am speaking about the way in which people are treated in our country. When we came into government section 28 was, disgracefully, still on the statute book—people who were gay or lesbian were told by the state that they had dangerous tendencies—there was the running sore of policing in a multiracial country, and the fester of the appalling murder of Stephen...

Orders of the Day: Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (8 Oct 2007)

Jack Straw: ...the protection afforded to homosexual people. It is a measure of how far we have come as a society in the last 10 years that we are all now appalled by hatred and invective directed against gay people, and it is now time for the law to recognise the feeling of the public. In Committee, we will table an amendment to extend the offence of incitement to racial hatred to cover hatred against...

Business of the House (17 May 2007)

Jack Straw: ...aware that some of us were at a private function earlier in the week at which Mr. Stephen Fry spoke with fantastic eloquence of what we, in the past 10 years, have been able to achieve on behalf of gay and lesbian people. It is one of the great prides that I have in the record of this Government.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Diversity Advisory Groups (4 Jul 2005)

Jack Straw: ...to the FCO Ministerial Group on diversity. The FCO Gender Advisory Group produced a booklet, Inclusive Government: mainstreaming gender into foreign policy", in June 2004. The FCO Lesbian and Gay Group (FLAGG) and the Ethnic Minority Action Group (EMAG) are run by staff, rather than HR. EMAG is a network of staff with an interest in minority ethnic issues, who wish to make an impact on...

Orders of the Day — Interpretation (27 Nov 2000)

Mr Jack Straw: ...of any right hon. or hon. Member who was a Conservative Member of Parliament at any time between 1979 and 1997 to complain about the use of guillotine motions, because they were sometimes used with gay abandon—for example, in 1988–89 and 1989–90.

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

Mr Jack Straw: ...equalise at 16. The second issue affects people aged between 16 and 18. I should correct the hon. Gentleman's small slip in assuming that the provisions on abuse of trust apply only to male gay relationships. In fact, they apply to relationships of any kind.

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

Mr Jack Straw: .... What did such harsh criminalisation achieve? Let me answer that by saying, first, what the criminal law utterly failed to achieve: it failed to achieve the elimination, or reduction, of gay sex. There were probably as many people who were homosexual then as there are today, but while heterosexual people could enjoy sexual relations in peace, those who were homosexual lived in...

European Parliamentary Elections Bill (Allocation of Time): Miscellaneous (2 Dec 1998)

Mr Jack Straw: ...House. He should, however, be rather cautious given the record of the previous Administration, particularly in the 1980s when they never sought agreement on Bills and used guillotine motions with gay abandon. There has, indeed, been an abuse of Parliament over the Bill, but it did not occur in this Chamber. The abuse was the responsibility of the Conservative party, which relied on its...

Bill Presented: Criminal Justice (Terrorism and Conspiracy) Bill (2 Sep 1998)

Mr Jack Straw: I shall come to that. The right hon. Gentleman has had much more notice of this matter than usual because of co-operation, which may turn out to be one way. The Liberal Democrats can tear up with gay abandon the agreements to which they sign up. We live and learn. The right hon. Gentleman is wholly wrong. It is impossible to conceive of a circumstance in which what he describes as a plan to...

Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]: Reduction in Age at Which Certain Sexual Acts are Lawful (28 Jul 1998)

Mr Jack Straw: ...accommodated an amendment on the age of consent within the Bill before us. Hon. Members may be aware that Mr. Euan Sutherland and Mr. Christopher Morris, with the backing of Stonewall, the gay rights organisation, took the United Kingdom Government to the European Court of Human Rights to argue that we were in breach of the European convention on human rights in setting a differential age...

Local Government (5 Dec 1986)

Mr Jack Straw: ...the untruth—that ILEA does not allow the police into schools. Conservative Members have also expressed concern about the fact that some Labour councils want to ensure that those with gay or lesbian tendencies are treated fairly. However, they are treading a very dangerous road. It is notorious that a number of Conservative Members of Parliament, some of whom are in high places in...