Month: July 1998

Lambeth / Festival Pier

Forty gay rights activists demonstrated tonight, Tuesday, 28th July, between 6 and 7 p.m., as 800 Anglican bishops from the Lambeth Conference arrived at Festival Pier on London’s South Bank to take a boat trip down the Thames. The demonstrators from OutRage! and other queer rights groups, including the NUS, castigated the bishops over their Lambeth / Festival Pier

Carey hides from Gay Rights Protesters

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of cowardice after he was smuggled by minders this morning (Monday, 20th July) into the opening session of the Lambeth Conference at the University of Kent by the back door, to avoid lesbian and gay rights protesters from OutRage! who were peacefully picketing the front entrance. “Carey was Carey hides from Gay Rights Protesters

Same-Sex Partners in the 2001 Census

Recording of same-sex partnerships in 1991 and 2001 Censuses Graham Jones, Director of Census Division, Office of National Statistics, Sedgenworth Road, Tichfield, Fareham. PO15 5RR Dear Mr. Jones, In the 1991 census, there were questions designed to establish the relationship between members of the household. The design of the form inadvertently allowed same-sex couples to Same-Sex Partners in the 2001 Census