LGBT Lib Dems will be at the Liberal Democrats' Spring Federal Conference in Sheffield this weekend. The conference is open to all party members, and we'll be promoting the party's unbeatable record of LGBT equality - and our role in helping form the party's LGBT policies.
Liberal Democrat Equalities Minister, Lynne Featherstone, today launched a new Government campaign to tackle homophobic bullying in sport.
Lynne Featherstone, the Lib Dem MP for Hornsey & Wood Green and Minister for Equalities, has written for Pink News on the drive to tackle homophobia in sport. In the article, she outlines how challenging homophobia and transphobia in sport, much like racism, can lead to the change in societal attitude we need for true equality.
Liberal Democrat Foreign Office and Equalities Ministers have welcomed a statement on "Ending acts of violence and related human rights violations based on sexual orientation & gender identity" at the UN Human Rights Council.
The 'Equal Love' campaign will today, on the 5th anniversary of civil partnerships, launch the legal bid by 4 same-sex and 4 mixed-sex couples to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to overturn the twin bans on gay marriage and heterosexual civil partnerships in the UK.
Responding to today's launch of a consultation into civil partnership ceremonies in religious premises, the Liberal Democrat body for LGBT equality has encouraged people of all faiths and none to engage with the consultation. If successful, the consultation would allow individual religious premises to apply to their local authority for approval to host civil partnership registrations.