Month: March 1999

Virgin Insurance – Letter to Richard Branson

Is ‘gay-friendly’ company loading insurance premiums? Richard Branson Virgin Communications Ltd 186 Campden Hill Road London W8 7CH 23 February 1999 Dear Sir, Some weeks ago I applied for Virgin life insurance. During a telephone conversation I was asked questions about my sexuality that I feel were intrusive and discriminatory. Your agent conducted the interview Virgin Insurance – Letter to Richard Branson

Grotesque Violation of Human Rights

Terry Connell and supporters, defiant after the appeal. ©1999 John Hunt/OutRage! London Bolton 7 – Terry Connell to appeal to Europe Today, Friday, 5th March, the Court of Appeal dismissed Terry Connell’s appeal against sentence for consensual gay sex in private: behaviour that would be legal elsewhere in Europe. If he were heterosexual, he would Grotesque Violation of Human Rights