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11 June 2013
MPs await Commons debate on sex education amendment 6 MPs in support of a Labour amendment for more comprehensive sex and relationship education in schools hope they’ll be enough parliamentary time to allow for a debate and vote.
10 June 2013
National AIDS Trust welcomes Labour’s call for LGBT inclusive sex education 5 The chief executive of the National AIDS Trust has welcomed calls by the Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper for statutory Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in schools and says it could help in the fight against ever rising HIV infections.
10 June 2013
Yvette Cooper: Young gay men face ‘huge mental health problems’ and we need stronger LGBT inclusive sex education 22 Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told PinkNews.co.uk that the government needs to make Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education a statutory requirement in order to address the health challenges faced by LGBT students.
4 June 2013
House of Lords votes in favour of same-sex marriage bill at second reading 140 Peers in the House of Lords have voted in favour of the equal marriage bill for England and Wales, with a large majority, following two days of heated debate around the issue.
4 June 2013
Former British Army Head Lord Dannatt: The equal marriage bill goes against what I fought 40 years for 60 The former head of the British Army, independent crossbench peer Lord Dannatt, used his speech during the debate in the House of Lords yesterday, to attack the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill.
4 June 2013
Rally for equal marriage to continue outside the House of Lords ahead of second reading vote 3 A rally is to be held outside the House of Lords today, in a show of support for the Marriage (same sex couples) Bill, which will be voted on this evening by peers.
3 June 2013
Photos: Equal marriage vigil outside the Houses of Parliament 15 This evening, pro-equality campaigners and politicians gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to hold a vigil in favour of same-sex marriage.
3 June 2013
Yvette Cooper: The government needs to remember who the real opponents of equal marriage are 11 Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told PinkNews.co.uk that the government needs to remember “who the opponents are” of the same-sex marriage bill in the wake of last week’s row about House of Lords timetabling.
22 May 2013
Yvette Cooper: ‘Let us be loud and proud, celebrate, not discriminate, and pass equal marriage’ 2 Shadow Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities, Yvette Cooper made a speech urging MPs to vote in favour of a bill to allow equal marriage in England and Wales, just before it passed in the House of Commons with an overwhelming majority.
20 May 2013
UK: The simple state of play on the same-sex marriage bill and civil partnerships amendments 7 We have condensed the row and the possible alternatives in relation to straight civil partnerships and how this impacts on the same-sex marriage vote in one article.
20 May 2013
Labour table civil partnership Manuscript Amendment in order to ‘rescue’ same-sex marriage bill 17 Labour has launched a bid to protect the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, amid fears that a "wrecking amendment" extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples could stall the legislation.
20 May 2013
Downing Street: Equal marriage is the Prime Minister’s ‘paramount concern’ 13 David Cameron is in full support of equal marriage, and the matter of whether the Government supports equal marriage is not in question, a Downing Street spokesman has confirmed.
20 May 2013
Yvette Cooper: ‘David Cameron must show confidence and not allow the equal marriage bill to get sucked into Tory wrangling’ 4 Shadow Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities, Yvette Cooper, says she hopes “David Cameron will show confidence and not allow the equal marriage bill to get sucked into another vortex of bitter Tory wrangling.”
26 April 2013
Yvette Cooper: ‘Parliament does not have enough openly gay and lesbian MPs’ 9 Labour's Yvette Cooper has called on British businesses and the world of politics to do more to celebrate diversity and not merely to “tolerate” LGBT staff.
5 February 2013
Culture Secretary Maria Miller: Parliament should value people equally in the law and marriage is for everyone 4 All couples who enter into a lifelong commitment should be able to call their relationship marriage, Culture Secretary and Minister for Equalities, Maria Miller, has told MPs.
5 February 2013
Yvette Cooper: Parliament has the chance today to support loving gay couples 7 Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has given a robust defence of the government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill – ahead of this evening’s vote.
25 January 2013
Yvette Cooper: I’m glad to be supporting the government’s same-sex marriage bill 10 Yvette Cooper, Labour’s shadow home secretary, has welcomed the publication of the government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill.
18 January 2013
Peter Tatchell: More gay men are being forced to give police their DNA 28 Peter Tatchell remains concerned by fresh reports of gay men being forced to give DNA samples to police officers.
17 January 2013
Yvette Cooper warns against ‘unfair’ police DNA targeting of gay men 15 Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper says she is concerned by allegations of gay men being forced to give DNA samples to police officers.
16 January 2013
Majority of MPs indicate that they will vote for same-sex marriage in England and Wales 31 A majority of MPs in the House of Commons have indicated that they intend to vote for the introduction of same-sex marriage in England and Wales.

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