Hate Crime Vigil
London's Soho Square, 7pm, Friday 30th October: a date for your diary.
19 Oct 2009
News
Liberal Democrat News
Is change nigh for the 'blood ban'?
Lib Dem LGBT group DELGA are pleased to highlight a demonstration tomorrow questioning the rules on blood donation in the UK. At present, men who have sex with men (whether gay and bisexual) are barred from giving blood, and straight or bisexual women are barred from donating for the twelve months following having sex with them. Many Lib Dem MPs have challenged this ruling and it is the policy of the Welsh Liberal Democrats to repeal the ban.
26 Oct 2009
Time running out - let them decide!
Have you signed Andrew Falconer's petition to enable civil partnerships to be conducted in churches and other religious venues? Time is running out as the deadline for this petition is this Friday, 30 October.
26 Oct 2009
DELGA News online
The latest edition of the DELGA members newsletter is now available online.
7 Oct 2009
A Long Proud Summer
"DELGA is looking forward to a long summer of lesbian, gay, bi and trans pride marches and community festivals in 2006" says Chair Kelvin Meyrick. "With the Lib Dems' long and proud tradition of supporting equality we are aiming to have a Liberal Democrat presence at as many of the events as we can."
28 Feb 2006
Brian Paddick: better police response to homophobia needed
In an interview with Channel 4 news this week, Lib Dem and formerly highest ranking out officer in the London Metropolitan Police force Brian Paddick spoke out on casual homophobia in the playground and the media and how this pattern of behaviour extends to brutal homophobic attacks. He highlighted that "75% of those surveyed by Stonewall say they did not report (homophobic) attacks to the Police" - and that while we would like to think the increase in reporting reflects a greater confidence in the police force it may well also reflect an increase in hate crime.
28 Oct 2009