Stephen Williams, Liberal Democrat MP for Bristol West, has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons welcoming the second International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) and calling for action on equality both here and abroad. DELGA encourages all our members, supporters and allies in working toward LGBT equality to write to their local MP urging them to add their name to the motion.
"Current legislation degrades same-sex couples to a second-tier partnership and leads to unnecessary pain and trouble for anyone wishing to change their legally recognised gender, forcing them to divorce or dissolve their civil partnership and enter into a different commitment."
Lib Dem LGBT equality group Delga and their friends tonight celebrated twenty-one years as a recognised Liberal Democrat party group. Guest speakers included Stephen Gilbert MP, Evan Harris, and veteran liberal gay rights campaigner Bernard Greaves.
Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference today passed a motion on diversity. Lib Dem Deputy Leader, Simon Hughes MP, said: "I am glad that Conference agreed today that there will be a full set of proposals for candidate diversity and that we will have the chance to take decisions to change the face and mix of the Liberal Democrats.
"And so conference, this is a new politics which has equality at its heart. An equality which sets people free, rather than imprisons them with rules. An equality for the future, which is driven by our liberal principles of the past."
September 23rd is Bi Visibility Day, also known as International Celebrate Bisexuality Day. Since 1999, bisexual people and groups around the world have held events to highlight bisexuality and combat biphobia.