Annotated response from DfEE to OutRage!’s letter to David Blunkett after the Soho bombing, pregnant with promise, but with unstated gestation. Department for Education and Employment, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, Westminster, London. SW1P 3BT 6th July, 1999. Thank you for your letter of 25 May addressed to the Secretary of State for Education and … Letter from Department for Education and Employment
The Rt. Hon. David Blunkett, MP, Secretary of State for Education and Employment. 25th May, 1999. Dear Mr. Blunkett, Promoting Lesbian and Gay Equality of Opportunity in Schools Following the sickening London bombings in April which targeted minority groups, OutRage! has been encouraged by some of the reported pronouncements by Tony Blair and Jack Straw … Letter to David Blunkett – Call to encourage LGBT teachers to come out
The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, MP, Home Secretary. 14th May, 1999. I am writing on behalf of the lesbian and gay human rights group OutRage! to call for a public inquiry into the police failure to warn the lesbian and gay population that Old Compton Street and other gay districts were potential bomb targets. Some … Letter to Jack Straw – Call for Public Enquiry after Soho bombing
The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, MP, Home Secretary. 3rd May, 1999. Dear Mr. Straw, Government Action following Friday’s Soho bombing Given your hospital visits to those injured by the bomb, it is plain that your weekend, like that of so many of us, has been disrupted by the blast, (albeit not in the devasting way … Letter to Jack Straw — Call for Government Action after Soho bombing
Su McLean-Tooke, Sex Offence Review Team, Room 253, Home Office, 50, Queen Anne’s Gate, LONDON. SW1H 9AT 19th March 1999 Dear Ms. McLean-Tooke, Herewith our contribution to the Home Office Review of Sex Offences. Please do not hesitate to contact us via any of the addresses above if we can be of further assistance. We … Submission to the Home Office Sex Offences Review Team
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
OutRage! urges activists concerned about the persecution in Zimbabwe of Keith Goddard of GALZ on trumped-up charges to send letters of protest to: Zimbabwe High Commission, 429, Strand, London WC2. Tel. 020-78.36.77.55 President of Zimbabwe, The President’s Office, Post Bag 7700, Causeway, Harare, ZIMBABWE. Dear Robert Mugabe, You will recall that we met over coffee … Zimbabwe: Trumped-up Prosecution of GALZ President on Sodomy Charges
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
Barbaric ‘Experiments’ by Nazi Dr. Værnet, War Criminal The President, Republic of Argentina, Balcarce 50, 1064 Buenos Aires, Argentina. 12th March, 1998 Dear President Carlos Menen, We are writing to request the help of your government to discover the fate of the Nazi doctor, Carl Værnet, who fled to Argentina after the war and was … Letter to President Menen of Argentina
Barbaric ‘Experiments’ by Nazi Dr. Værnet, War Criminal The Prime Minister, Statsministeriet, Christinsborg, Prins Jorgens Gaard 11, Copenhagen 1218, Denmark. 16th March, 1998 Dear Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, We are writing to request the help of your government to discover the fate of the Nazi doctor, Carl Værnet, who fled to Argentina after the … Letter to Prime Minister Rasmussen of Denmark