British PM apologizes to Alan Turing
Gordon Brown apologized for Britain’s treatment of gay WWII hero Alan Turing.
Tags: Alan Turing, gay, Gordon Brown, Wwii HeroIn UK politics, It’s Gay Gordon versus Camp David
GORDON Brown and David Cameron were last night locked in a bizarre and bitter battle for the GAY vote.
The PM and Conservative leader are desperate to win over the UK’s three million pink voters.
Two Cabinet ministers sprang into action to accuse the Tories of being anti-gay after new figures showed a rise in the number of gays planning to vote Tory.
Openly-gay Ben Bradshaw and Chris Bryant warned homosexuals and lesbians the Tories once persecuted them.
Culture Secretary Mr Bradshaw told the BBC: “A deep strain of homophobia still exists on the Conservative benches.” And Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said: “If gays vote Tory they will rue the day very soon.”
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Sarah Brown to march in Pride
UK prime minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah will march with LGBT people in London Pride.
Tags: Brown Pride, Gordon Brown, London Pride, People, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Sarah Brown, Wife SarahUK PM blasts Prop 8
(London) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has blasted the California law banning same-sex marriage. Brown called Proposition 8, as it is known, “unacceptable” and said it was a setback for civil rights in the United States.
Brown made the comments during a speech to British gay rights leaders during a reception …
Tags: Blasts, British Prime Minister, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, California Law, Civil Rights, Gay Rights Leaders, Gordon Brown, marriage, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, same sex marriage, Setback, Uk London, united statesBritish PM Gordon Brown On Attacking Prop 8: “Unacceptable”
Gordon Brown has condemned California’s ban on gay marriage as “unacceptable” and warned people to be vigilant against all forms of discrimination.
The prime minister said the ban, backed in a referendum in the US state in November, would “undo” much of recent progress made in tackling prejudice.
California became the 28th US state to prohibit gay marriage, overturning an earlier court ruling legalising it.
Same-sex civil partnerships became law in the UK in 2005.
‘Fighting homophobia’
Civil partnerships gave gay partners the same tax and inheritance rights as heterosexual married couples.
Mr Brown made the comments at a reception in Downing Street for leading figures from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Nearly 20,000 gay couples have married in California since same-sex unions were legalised in May and the state authorities have said these will remain valid.
The referendum, which gained 52% support, called for the state’s constitution to be amended to include the stipulation that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised”.
Mr Brown said “this attempt to undo good that has been done is unacceptable”.
He added: “This shows why we have always got to be vigilant, always got to fight homophobic behaviour and any form of discrimination.”
He also praised equality campaigners in the UK for “changing opinion” about same-sex unions.
“You have shown how the legislative process, by your pressure, can respond,” he said.
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Prime Minister honours gay victims in Holocaust Memorial Day statement
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has released a statement ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day tomorrow, the international day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.
HMD is marked each year on 27 January – the anniversary of the date of the liberation of Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
“The theme of this Holocaust Memorial Day is Standing up to Hatred,” Mr Brown said.
“We all like to think that we know what we would do in the face of hatred – that in a moment of decision we would honour our obligations to resist brutality and to stand with its victims.
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