LGBT Labour - The Labour Campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender RightsAGM 2010

AGM 2010

Labour Campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights

Annual General Meeting 2010

Elections

Following a successful AGM a new National Campaign Committee has been elected:

Committee positions

National Co-chair (woman)	Katie Hanson
National Co-chair (open)	James Asser
National Secretary	Hannah Blythyn
Treasurer & Membership Officer	Daryn McCombe
Press Officer	Wes Streeting
Website & Newsletter Editor	Craig Nelson
Fundraising & Events Officer	Richard Lane
Prides Officer	Luke Mallett
Youth Officer	Nick Pringle
Student Officer	Darren Naylor
Campaigns Co-ordinator	Richard Angell & James Murray (Job Share)
International Officer	Louise Ashworth
Trade Union Liaison Officer	Dierdre Costigan
Women's Officer	Katie Curtis
Women's Delegate	Bev Craig
BAME Officer	Derek Urhoghide & Dillon Charles (Job Share)
Disabled Member's Officer	Matthew Murphy
Trans Officer	Vacant

Other positions (nominated on the day)

· Labour Party conference delegate: Wes Streeting

· Auditors x2: Russell Smith & Neil Wilson

London committee positions

London Chair	Tom Burke
London Vice Chair	Hannah Blythyn
London Secretary	Andy Woodward
London Events Officer	Peter Ptashko

Motions

Will be updated as soon as possible

	Motion title	Submitted by	Passed?
1	Proud of Labour: 13 years of Progress	Richard Angell	Yes - with amendments
2	Keeping our committment to Equality	Daryn McCombe	Yes - with amendments
3	Hope Not Hate	Richard Angell	Yes
4	Constitutional Review	James Asser	Yes - with amendments
5	Lots done, Lots to be done	Peter Purton	Yes
6	Marriage Equality	Tom Burke	Composite was passed
7	Tackling Racism	Unison	Yes - All but resolves 3
8	Gender Neutral Marriage	Unison	Composite was passed
9	Continuing our international work	Unison	Yes
10	World Pride 2010	James Asser	Yes
11	Involving more youth and students	Darren Naylor	Yes

Motion 6 and 8 have been compositied with the agreement of the National Committee. See the full text here as an attachment or below:

GENDER NEUTRAL MARRIAGES AND CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS

This AGM continues to be proud of Labour’s record in office over a wide area and notes:

Notable achievements include the introduction of Civil Partnerships and the Gender Recognition Act.
over 30,000 civil partnerships have been formed in the UK.
Discrimination remains, however, in spite of the progress we have made.
This includes Trans people who are married being required to have their marriages annulled to gain gender recognition, same sex couples being barred from marrying and opposite sex couples being denied from entering civil partnerships.

This AGM believes:

That the current legal position discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
That the separate legal recognition of same-sex and heterosexual couples maintains a symbolic separation within society

This AGM therefore calls for further steps towards full equality for LGBT people and agrees to campaign at all levels within the Party for both marriage and civil partnerships to become available without discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

This AGM instructs the national committee:

To take all action it considers appropriate and necessary to build a consensus within the Labour party, the wider LGBT community and wider society in support of marriage and civil partnership equality
To advocate for the Labour party to adopt marriage and civil partnership equality as party policy