The government issued new guidance with regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender asylum seekers today in a document entitled: The Coalition: our programme for government. The pledge stated: We will stop the deportation of asylum seekers who have had to leave particular countries because their sexual orientation or gender identification puts them at proven … New LGBT asylum guidelines
London – 19 July 2006: Public meeting at the House of Commons to mark the first anniversary of Iran’s hanging of two gay teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, in the city of Mashhad on 19 July 2005. © OutRage! 1990-2010. You are free to use this photo to illustrate news stories and articles about … Iran meeting at House of Commons
International Day Against Homophobia, 17 May 2006, Home Office, London, UK. “Stop Deporting Gay Refugees – Gay asylum seekers are victims, not criminals” – Protest against Home Office refusal to grant asylum to people fleeing homophobic persecution. © OutRage! 1990-2010. You are free to use this photo to illustrate news stories and articles about OutRage!, … IDAHO – Asylum Protest
270 days after the April Bomb, and after 1000 days of inaction by New Labour, OutRage! publishes a 10-point reply sent to the Home Secretary, demanding progress. For the personal attention of: The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, MP, Home Secretary. Copy: The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, MP, 10, Downing Street. Copy: The Rt. Hon. Dr. … Reply to Jack Straw
Armed Forces urged to educate against prejudice and make homophobia a disciplinary offence The Government’s decision to lift the military ban on lesbians and gays is a welcome first step towards eradicating homophobia from the Armed Forces, according to OutRage!. But OutRage! warns that deeply entrenched homophobic attitudes will continue to force many gay people … Government Lifts Military Ban – Call for Action to Combat Homophobia in the Military
Annotated reply from Jack Straw to OutRage!’s letter to the Prime Minister of 21st July on Government Action following the Soho Bomb. Home Secretary, Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AT. Our Ref: SEN/99 35/70/34 P0 17278/99 22nd November, 1999. Thank you for your letter of 21 July to the Prime Minister which raises a number … Letter from the Home Secretary in Reply to OutRage! Letter to Tony Blair
Call for Zimbabwe’s Explusion from the Commonwealth OutRage! has condemned as “shameful appeasement” the British Government’s expression of “regret” to President Mugabe over his citizen’s arrest by OutRage! members during a visit to London on the 30th October. The words of regret were expressed to Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister in a phone call by Peter Hain … Blair Government Condemned over “Regret” to Mugabe
The Prime Minister, 10, Downing Street. 9th November, 1999. Dear Tony Blair, COMMONWEALTH SUMMIT 1999 HOMOPHOBIC PERSECUTION & OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN ZIMBABWE I am writing on behalf of the gay human rights group OutRage! to request that, during the Commonwealth Summit in South Africa, you initiate moves to expel Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth … PM urged to expell Zimbabwe from Commonwealth
Following receipt of lacklustre replies from the Home Office and the Department of Education to letters sent in the wake of the Soho bombing, OutRage! has written to the Prime Minister, inviting him to effect coordination and instill a sense of urgency by assigning responsibility to a competent, dynamic and committed individual, who is empowered … OutRage! invites Blair to “kick ass”
“The Labour Party is concerned with grave realities, not with picturesque fairy tales. … Practical men and women will consider, not fables regarding tomorrow, but the facts of today. … They will judge the present Government, as governments should be judged, not by its words, but by its deeds — by its achievements, its … Pride March: Pinocchio Blair – Labour’s broken promises