European Liberals pledge to fight for LGBT equality
Liberal Democrat MEPs and candidates have joined forces with other European liberals by pledging to fight for LGBT rights at the European elections next May. Liberals 4 Equality, the European liberal network for LGBT rights, has been among the first to back a new campaign by ILGA-Europe to put LGBT equality issues at the top of the EU agenda. ILGA-Europe's Come Out campaign aims to mobilise support for human rights and equality among the candidates for the European Parliament elections on 22-25 May (22 May in the UK), and to encourage people across Europe to use their vote. Sarah Ludford, Liberal Democrat MEP for London, who signed the pledge on behalf of the European Parliament's liberal group (Alliance of Liberals & Democrats for Europe), said: "Over the past five years, European liberals in the European Parliament have consistently pushed for LGBT rights. Just this week I co-sponsored a resolution condemning death threats to LGBT people in India and some African countries as well as the Russian campaig
