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Written Answers — Health: NHS: Equality (21 Jul 2008)

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will take steps to ensure that lesbian, gay and bisexual people are not discriminated against in the delivery of NHS services; (2) what steps his Department is taking to ensure that lesbian, gay and bisexual people employed by the NHS are not discriminated against.

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill [Lords]: Clause 10 - Groups (29 Nov 2005)

Sandra Gidley: ...think of a community as a mixture of people with all inequalities interspersed. It seems odd that any action should consider one side of the problem but not the other. Some communities have a large gay population, and there are an increasing number of communities for the over-65s. If we stick to the provision in the Bill, those groups could be further disfranchised. We cannot ignore the...

International Role of Women (9 Mar 2004)

Ms Sandra Gidley: ...women today, although it is not recognised as a women's issue. Some people take an interest in that aspect of HIV/AIDS, but much of the general public still regard it as something that affects only gay men. That is clearly not the case. Since HIV/AIDS was first discovered 20 years ago, more people have died from it than died of the black death in the middle ages. In sub-Saharan Africa, an...

Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]: New Clause 10 — Sexual Activity in a Public Place (3 Nov 2003)

Ms Sandra Gidley: ...to have sex—they should be used for the purpose for which they are designed—but the subtext of some of our debates in Committee suggests that this issue involves discrimination against gay men. I do not want to pass legislation that discriminates in any way, but I must admit that I am struggling to understand that argument. Perhaps that is because I am not a gay man, but I...

Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]: New Clause 10 — Sexual Activity in a Public Place (3 Nov 2003)

Ms Sandra Gidley: ...the slightly muddled thinking, as it could be regarded, of my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon. He said on one occasion that the public have a greater abhorrence of seeing a gay couple speaking—[Hon. Members: "Kissing."] Sorry, I meant kissing, not speaking; things have not got that bad. He said that the public have a greater abhorrence of a gay couple kissing...

Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]: New Clause 10 — Sexual Activity in a Public Place (3 Nov 2003)

Ms Sandra Gidley: ...go into a toilet together than it is for a man and a woman. It is a more common offence—not a greater or lesser offence—because it is easier. There is no sinister intent to criminalise gay men.

Public Bill Committee: Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Rape (9 Sep 2003)

Ms Sandra Gidley: .... The issue boils down to violation: the violation of a weak person, usually by a stronger one. In most cases, that means the violation of a woman by a man, but increasingly there are cases of gay rape, where forced oral penetration may be more of a feature. We have to accept that culture changes, times change and public perceptions change. In the Home Affairs Committee report on the...

Public Bill Committee: Adoption and Children Bill: Clause 47 - Applications for adoption (29 Nov 2001)

Ms Sandra Gidley: I hope that the hon. Gentleman is going to elaborate on why he thinks that gay men are unacceptable, whereas gay women—whom he has not mentioned—might be acceptable. What is the difference as far as he is concerned?