Results 1-20 of 29 for gay speaker:Chris Bryant

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair] — Death Penalty (Global Abolition) (28 Oct 2009)

Chris Bryant: ...be executed for their sexuality. It is particularly poignant that in the past couple of weeks, a man—Ian Baynham—was murdered about 300 yards up the road in Trafalgar square for being gay and that only last weekend a police community support officer was attacked in Liverpool because of his sexuality. Both I and this Government believe that human rights are a seamless garment,...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] — UK Relations with Russia (14 Oct 2009)

Chris Bryant: ...all countries where there are significant issues. The speech of the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) was the best that I have heard today, by virtue of its brevity. He raised the issue of gay rights in Russia. We do raise that matter and our embassy tries to be supportive of British people who try to go there to take part. I think that I am right in saying that the mayor of...

Written Answers — International Development: Developing Countries: Homophobia (29 Jun 2009)

Chris Bryant: I have been asked to reply. The UK believes that every state has an obligation to protect the rights of all its citizens, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) people, without discrimination of any kind. We regularly raise this with governments of countries where the rights of LGBT people are violated. In countries where same sex relationships are illegal, we continue to...

Deferred Division: Crime (London) (23 Apr 2008) has video

Chris Bryant: ...in the past eight years, namely the radical transformation of the relationship between the police in London and the black and minority ethnic communities and, for that matter, the lesbian and gay community in London? This has resulted in many more people having a strong relationship with the police, which the police have been able to use in ensuring our security. Does the hon. Gentleman...

Business of the House: Crime Reduction (19 Jul 2007) has video

Chris Bryant: ...changed since then, but there are still many cases of homophobic violence and abuse. One young man was killed less than a mile from here; he was beaten to death by several young hooligans. A lot of gay-bashing goes on around the country, and there is evidence to suggest that many gay men are reluctant to report it to the police. My right hon. Friend has a substantial personal record on...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Departmental Budget (20 Jun 2007)

Chris Bryant: ...for equality measures and next to no agreement on the Conservative Benches? May I congratulate the Deputy Prime Minister on 10 years of absolutely resolute support for equality for lesbians and gay men?

Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 5 (26 Apr 2007)

Chris Bryant: ...to make that investment and indeed in persuading people to present is associated with the stigma that sometimes attaches to specific communities and individuals. It is a sad fact that a young gay man is six times more likely than a young straight man to commit suicide under the age of 16. By definition, those young people find it difficult to come forward to psychiatric services, because...

Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 (24 Apr 2007)

Chris Bryant: .... Many who remember Pinochet’s Chile or Russia under Soviet rule will know how mental health services were used to incarcerate people who were not of the right political opinion. Many British gay people, and gay people across Europe, know how it has been to be imprisoned, or for that matter executed, for their sexuality, so it seems intrinsically a good idea for the Bill to say...

Government Relations with Russia (29 Nov 2006)

Chris Bryant: ...reform. Many prisons in Russia belong to the dark ages, not to the 21st century. HIV and AIDS incidence in Russian prisons has quadrupled in the past three years. I could raise the matter of lesbian and gay rights. Earlier this year, the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, banned the gay pride march, and the Russian Federation in effect backed him up by refusing to allow visas for a large...

Human Rights (Iran) (6 Jun 2006)

Chris Bryant: ...whole debate, but I did watch the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Mrs. Ellman) on television. So far, the one group that has not been mentioned is lesbians and gays. Many gay men have been executed in the past year. Indeed, execution comes not just through the courts but through officially or unofficially sanctioned death squads roaming villages, trying...

Business of the House: Conventions (Joint Committee) (10 May 2006)

Chris Bryant: ...their Lordships do these days. Some of us would point to some of the legislation that the Government have brought forward, which has been extremely progressive—for example, on lesbian and gay rights. The Lords, in their reactionary nature, have not seen fit to allow that legislation to go forward. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will recognise that sometimes the democratic process can...

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

Chris Bryant: ...to suggest that equality does not interest them at all, many Labour Members and a few Opposition Members are very grateful to the Government for giving way on the issue of goods and services for gays and lesbians—in particular, because many people in this country are already sick and tired of the fact that their general practitioners refuse to look after them because they are...

Business of the House (3 Nov 2005)

Chris Bryant: ...President's words about Israel last week or the nuclear programme that cause concern, but Iran's grisly human rights record? In July, two young men were killed in north-east Iran merely for being gay, and 30 young people under the age of 18 are on death row. Those are only the people we know about. May we have a debate and break with convention by not holding it on the Adjournment of the...

UK Relations With Iran (11 Oct 2005)

Chris Bryant: ...in Turkey seeking asylum. His experience of his homosexuality—the words that he uses—is no different from that of many young homosexuals in this country. He said: "I have known I was gay since I was about five or six; I always preferred to play with girls. I had my first sexual experience with a man when I was 13 but nobody in my family knew I was gay." Many homosexuals in this...

Public Bill Committee: Racial and Religious Hatred Bill: Schedule - Hatred against persons on racial or religious grounds (30 Jun 2005)

Chris Bryant: ...up, took off their jackets and showed their brown shirts and their sand-brown belts, and proceeded to march on to the stage. There was then a very big fight. The next night we were attacked by gay lib, so it was an interesting week. [Interruption.] Formative years, indeed. The important point is that many of the speeches in the play by the character playing the leader of the National Front...

Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]: Schedule 28 — Consequential amendments: Scotland (9 Nov 2004)

Mr Chris Bryant: The hon. Gentleman is mistaken if he believes that I think that the Bill will create gay marriage. Many people will use "gay marriage" as shorthand for the Bill's provisions, but I believe that marriage should be only between a man and a woman.

Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]: Schedule 28 — Consequential amendments: Scotland (9 Nov 2004)

Mr Chris Bryant: ...people would consider that part of the steady progress that has been made towards openness and away from prejudice. As I said, I welcome this Bill wholeheartedly, and I know that many lesbians and gay men in this country will do the same. For the sake of argument, I am sure that many will call what the Bill offers gay marriage—and I do not care at all. I am happy that the people who...

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

Mr Chris Bryant: ...ethics of homosexuality. Almost inevitably, as the peace negotiations continue in Northern Ireland—one hopes leading to the setting up again of a Northern Ireland Assembly—the issue of gay rights will be entangled in the process of setting up the Assembly. That would be invidious to the position of lesbians and gay men in Northern Ireland. It would also not exactly help the...

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 115 - Dissolution (26 Oct 2004)

Mr Chris Bryant: The thrust of the hon. Gentleman's contribution in Committee has been to try to make the Bill less like a gay marriage Bill. Does he not realise that introducing a concept of gay adultery makes the provisions of the Bill more like gay marriage?

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 7 - Place of registration (21 Oct 2004)

Mr Chris Bryant: ...Some of these churches are profoundly evangelical or fundamentalist and are unlikely to want to allow such registrations. However, the Metropolitan Community Church for instance, which is a largely gay and lesbian Church, operates around the country not in traditional church buildings but in venues of the sort that I have mentioned. The Bill would not allow a civil partnership registration...