Dear OutRage!, As promised The Pride Trust has read and considered your open letter. Despite the emotive phrases “dumbing down” and “de-gaying Pride”, to which we take particular offence, we believe your general comments to be constructive. With performers it is nigh impossible to insist that they make a political statement prior to their set. … Response from the Pride Trust
Peter Tatchell says gay marriage and registered partnerships offer false hope. An Unmarried Partners Act, giving automatic legal rights to all unwed couples, –gay and straight– would be far more beneficial. Much recent debate about the legal recognition of same-sex relationships has been dominated by Dutch proposals to permit gay civil marriage, and by the … Unmarried Partners Act – New Rights for the Unwed
OutRage! invite you to join us in commemorating QUEER REMEMBRANCE DAY on Sunday, 2-November-1997, London (the Sunday before official Remembrance Sunday). QUEER REMEMBRANCE DAY is organised by OutRage! in conjunction with other lesbian and gay groups, including Rank Outsiders. 2:00 p.m., at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, SW1 Ceremony of Remembrance to commemorate the lesbians, gays, and … Queer Remembrance Day – Invitation
United Airlines Refuses Gay Partnership Benefits The main corporate sponsor of London’s 1997 Gay Pride Festival, United Airlines, has been exposed as pursuing antigay employment policies. The gay rights group OutRage! is calling for a Europe-wide “Boycott United” campaign, in protest at United Airlines’ refusal to give spousal benefits to the partners of its gay … Call for Europe-wide “Boycott United” campaign
Letter to OutRage! from Association of Flight Attendants ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AFL-CIO United Airlines Cargo Centre, Shoreham Road East, Heathrow Airport, Hounslow TW6 3RD United Kingdom. As the elected union representative of 900 cabin crew working for United Air Lines at Heathrow, I would like to offer thanks to you and OutRage! for your … Union support for “Boycott United” campaign
While we are immensely appreciative of the work done by the staff and volunteers of the Pride Trust, we are dismayed by the recent trend to dumb-down and de-gay Pride. Each year’s Pride events should have a different, concrete human rights theme, such as “Equal Age of Consent”, “Partnership Recognition”, “Equality at Work”, and “Parenting … An Open Letter to the Pride Trust
The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, MP, Prime Minister, 10, Downing Street, London SW1 Dear Mr. Blair, Lesbian & Gay Rights The following message was read by Chris Smith on your behalf at ‘Pride’ at the beginning of this month. “The New Labour Government wants to build a New Britain, free from discrimination. I want to … Letter to Tony Blair – after 3 months in office
Peter Tatchell argues that animal experimentation is undermining the fight against AIDS and jeopardising the lives of people with HIV. The development of live-saving protease inhibitors was delayed for four years by the pharmaceutical company Merck because the drugs killed laboratory dogs and rats, according to the Washington Post Magazine, (1-May-1997). During those four years, … Animal research delayed protease inhibitors for four years
A giant 8′ x 4′ invoice, demanding payment by the New Labour Government, was carried in Saturday’s Gay Pride Parade by members of the gay rights group OutRage!. The invoice demanded that Labour should “Pay Up Now!” for gay rights legislation promised by the party during the recent election campaign: an equal age of consent; … Invoice to New Labour government for gay law reform
Government defends discrimination in sexual offences law OutRage! has warned that the newly-agreed equal age of consent will not apply to Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man, and that Tony Blair is unwilling to press the local parliaments to equalise their ages of consent at 16, to bring them into line with the rest … Labour vetoes Equality