Month: October 2010

Stonewall finally supports marriage equality

Stonewall has finally decided it does support same-sex marriage after all. Peter Tatchell of OutRage! said: “This is good news, at last. Thanks to everyone who lobbied Stonewall to change its policy. “We are pleased that Stonewall has finally joined other LGBT organisations in seeking to overturn the homophobic ban on same-sex civil marriage. We Stonewall finally supports marriage equality

‘Equal Love’ Launch Press Briefing

Equal Love campaign launch — London 26 October 2010. OutRage! legal bid to overturn the twin bans on same-sex civil marriage and opposite-sex civil partnerships. Equality for all, gay and straight.

The Equal Love campaign

To find out more about OutRage!’s Equal Love campaign, visit www.equallove.org.uk

‘Equal Love’ campaign launched

Legal bid to end sexual orientation discrimination Britain’s new Equal Love campaign was launched today with a news conference in London. It aims to challenge the twin bans on gay marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships, with eight couples filing applications at register offices and then, when they are refused, bringing a joint legal action in ‘Equal Love’ campaign launched

Legal challenge to ban on gay marriage & straight civil partnerships

Gay couples will file applications for civil marriages Heterosexual couples will apply for civil partnerships Legal bid to end sexual orientation discrimination NEWS CONFERENCE Equal Love campaign 10.15am, Tuesday 26 October 2010 Halfway to Heaven pub, 7 Duncannon Street, London WC2N 4JF (off Trafalgar Square). See map here: This news conference will be chaired by Legal challenge to ban on gay marriage & straight civil partnerships

Stonewall gay marriage survey “flawed”

Marriage equality question buried in long list Question is headed civil partnerships, not gay marriage Survey method is “biased and unethical” “Despite being founded to secure gay equality, the gay lobby group Stonewall is refusing to campaign against the ban on gay civil marriage. It is not committed to full equal rights for lesbian and Stonewall gay marriage survey “flawed”

Remembering the Gay Liberation Front

On 13 October 1970, the Gay Liberation Front was founded in Britain. It was a modest beginning, with 19 people meeting in a basement in the London School of Economics. But it grew rapidly and proved to be a defining, watershed moment in British queer history. From 1970 onwards, thanks to GLF, the lesbian, gay, Remembering the Gay Liberation Front