• Lord Alli wins right to have civil partnerships in church or religious building
  3rd March 2010 Last night, the House of Lords has approved an amendment to the Equality Bill giving gay couples the right to have civil partnerships in church or religious building. The measure, proposed by LGBT Labour patron Lord Waheed Alli, was passed 95 votes to 21, a majority of 74. It gives religious the option of hosting civil partnership ceremonies if they wish and is not compulsory. Under current law, civil partnerships may not contain any religious references. The change means they can be held in churches and other religious buildings, and may contain religious language. Faiths such as...
  
• LGBT Labour backs civil partnerships in religious buildings
  26 February 2010 LGBT Labour has added its support to an amendment by one of its patrons, Lord Waheed Alli, that would remove the current restriction on civil partnerships in religious buildings. Lord Alli's amendment to the Equality Bill, set to be debated on March 2nd, would amend the Civil Partnership Act to allow willing religious institutions to hold civil partnerships on their premises. Support is growing for the amendment, with a letter in support from prominent Anglicans being published this week in the Times - in which a leader article also endorsed the amendment. Liberal Judaism, the Quakers, and...
  
• No rapid conversion in the Tories voting record
  18 February 2009 No "rapid conversion" in the Tories' voting record Tory MPs' recent voting records wreck the claim that there has been a "rapid conversion" in the Conservatives' attitude to gay people, according to LGBT Labour. LGBT Labour has questioned claims by Tory MP Nick Herbert in a speech a U.S. think tank that the Conservative Party had had a "rapid conversion" in its attitude to gay people - pointing to a string of recent votes where Tory MPs have opposed LGBT equality. In 2009, Tory MPs voted repeatedly to weaken the Government's new protection from homophobic hatred, by...
  
• Valentine's Day
  Spreading some Valentine's Love on Canal Street LGBT Labour north west will be out on Canal Street in Manchster over the weekend of 13th/14th February to celebrate Valentine's Day. We'll be handing out specially comminnsioned card celebrating the acheivements in LGBT equality since 1997. Anthony McCaul, Labours Campaigner for Manchester City Centre and LGBT Labour member said: "I'm proud of what Labour has delivered for LGBT people in the last 10 years. If you'd have asked people during the 80s when the conservatives were openly persecuting gay people through laws like section 28 whether they'd see the scale of change...
  
• Camera on Gay and Lesbian Adoption
  As Attitude say today: In an interview with Johan Hari in this month's Attitude, Cameron denies he voted against gay adoption and insists he "abstained" on the vote "I start to go over his record beyond Section 28 - and slap into a brick wall. In 2002 he voted against allowing gay couples to adopt. Yet when I ask him why, he flatly denies it. He says: "No... we were three-line-whipped on that vote and I abstained on it." I point him to Hansard, which records his vote against gay marriage in cold, black ink. He says "my memory" is...
  

"Claims that Law and Justice have changed and now support gay rights ring as hollow as protestations that David Cameron has transformed the Tories into a party whose members are all fully committed to equality."

Tony Grew, Pink News

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