Friday, March 30, 2007
UN Resolution for Decriminalisation of Homosexuality - Online Petition
The 3rd Annual International Day Against Homophobia is on 17th May 2007.
To help support this and assist them in their aim of Getting a UN Resolution for Decriminalisation of Homosexuality, we have submitted the following petition to the PM Tony Blair, on the Number 10 website;
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IDAHO-Petition/
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Campaign to the UN for a UN Resolution for Decriminalisation of Homosexuality.
On the 17th May 2007, an International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), will again be campaigning for Governments across the World to petition the UN to bring forward a UN Resolution for Decriminalisation of Homosexuality. In this day and age there are nearly 80 countries in the world where it is a criminal offence to be homosexual. A resolution is proposed by Louis Georges Tin, the President of the IDAHO Committee for the UN to have a Universal Decriminalisation of Homosexuality to protect individuals' human rights.
We ask the United Nations :
To request a universal abolition of the so-called "crime of homosexuality", of all "sodomy laws", and laws against so-called "unnatural acts" in all the countries where they still exist.
We ask Tony Blair, to support the resolution, and ask him to bring the resolution to the United Nations next year as a supportive country."
Please show your support for this UN Resolution and sign the petition
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IDAHO-Petition/
To help support this and assist them in their aim of Getting a UN Resolution for Decriminalisation of Homosexuality, we have submitted the following petition to the PM Tony Blair, on the Number 10 website;
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IDAHO-Petition/
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Campaign to the UN for a UN Resolution for Decriminalisation of Homosexuality.
On the 17th May 2007, an International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), will again be campaigning for Governments across the World to petition the UN to bring forward a UN Resolution for Decriminalisation of Homosexuality. In this day and age there are nearly 80 countries in the world where it is a criminal offence to be homosexual. A resolution is proposed by Louis Georges Tin, the President of the IDAHO Committee for the UN to have a Universal Decriminalisation of Homosexuality to protect individuals' human rights.
We ask the United Nations :
To request a universal abolition of the so-called "crime of homosexuality", of all "sodomy laws", and laws against so-called "unnatural acts" in all the countries where they still exist.
We ask Tony Blair, to support the resolution, and ask him to bring the resolution to the United Nations next year as a supportive country."
Please show your support for this UN Resolution and sign the petition
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IDAHO-Petition/
Labels: Gay Actions, Gay Activities, Gay Rights UK, Gay Rights Worldwide, GLITA
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Vote on Sexual Orientations Regulations - TODAY
Tonight, the Lords vote on the final submissions of the Sexual Orientations (Goods and Services) Regulations.
There has been a final amendment made to the regulations, that read:
"This House, having regard to the widespread concerns that the draft Regulations compromise religious liberty and will result in litigation over the content of classroom teaching, and having regard to the legality of the equivalent regulations for Northern Ireland, declines to approve the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007."
Peers will then be asked to vote to strike down the regulations.
Following Monday Evenings Commons vote, in which MP's voted 310 votes to 100 to accept the regulations, tonight is the final chance for the regulations to be struck down.
If they are not, then the regulations will come into force on the 30th April.
As Lords have no constituent's, we cannot advise our members to write to them specifically. Yet if you wish to contact any of the Lords to show your support for the regulations, please feel free to use the Email Action letter, and go to:
http://www.writetothem.com/lords
Where by you can enter Gay Rights or Sexual Orientation Regulations and a list of Lords who have specified interest or spoken in the house regarding these areas will show allowing you to chose to send an email to them.
Also this evening, a group of Christian lawyers (The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship) are planning a "prayer vigil" outside Parliament on the same night (between 7 and 9pm at Old Palace yard (the square opposite the St Stephen's entrance to the House of Lords).
As an "Official" Protest from the Gay Community hasn't been applied for, we cannot ask for you to attend in a counter-demonstration, yet there wasn't during they're last protest, during the discussion of the same regulations for Northern Ireland, and a small group of LGBT people were able to gather and show they're support for the regulations.
There has been a final amendment made to the regulations, that read:
"This House, having regard to the widespread concerns that the draft Regulations compromise religious liberty and will result in litigation over the content of classroom teaching, and having regard to the legality of the equivalent regulations for Northern Ireland, declines to approve the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007."
Peers will then be asked to vote to strike down the regulations.
Following Monday Evenings Commons vote, in which MP's voted 310 votes to 100 to accept the regulations, tonight is the final chance for the regulations to be struck down.
If they are not, then the regulations will come into force on the 30th April.
As Lords have no constituent's, we cannot advise our members to write to them specifically. Yet if you wish to contact any of the Lords to show your support for the regulations, please feel free to use the Email Action letter, and go to:
http://www.writetothem.com/lords
Where by you can enter Gay Rights or Sexual Orientation Regulations and a list of Lords who have specified interest or spoken in the house regarding these areas will show allowing you to chose to send an email to them.
Also this evening, a group of Christian lawyers (The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship) are planning a "prayer vigil" outside Parliament on the same night (between 7 and 9pm at Old Palace yard (the square opposite the St Stephen's entrance to the House of Lords).
As an "Official" Protest from the Gay Community hasn't been applied for, we cannot ask for you to attend in a counter-demonstration, yet there wasn't during they're last protest, during the discussion of the same regulations for Northern Ireland, and a small group of LGBT people were able to gather and show they're support for the regulations.
Labels: Gay Actions, Gay Rights UK, GLITA
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Join Glita
Dear Friends,
As some of you know, I've been working on creating and working on a LGBT rights campaign group to help promote and maintain LGBT rights in here and around the world.
On Monday I launched my main website www.GLITA.org.uk, which is one of the main tools of my campaign group, and is also the link to my charity The Glita Foundation, which works in line with this.
While I know many of you support gay rights, even if you're not gay yourself, I also know that most of you have busy lives where you can't demostrate the fact or just disinclined to do so publicly, apart from attending Pride of course.
I was the same, always busy to go to the protests I wanted to, but I always managed to find time to forward on an email or a petition that was sent around portraying my gay rights ethos.
This is why I set up GLITA, it's a web based organisation, that takes actions and help promotes gay rights online, be it from sending emails to Ruth Kelly or your MP pushing for the Sexual Orientations Regulations, or signing petitions on gay rights abuses here and abroad, like Iran or Zimbabwe.
It's a easy way to show your support, and make the differences that many of us have been affected by, like being bullied in school, work or in the street, just for being who we are, we stand up for those rights and appeal for legislation, training, knowledge and understanding, so that we and others no longer have to suffer in silence or be ashamed. Even if you are not gay personnaly, you know someone who is, either myself or friends of mine, otherwise I wouldn't have your email address, and you can join us too, you don't have to gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to join GLITA, you just want to have a better life for those who you know are, and those who you don't know also.
I've made membership of GLITA free to join, just go to the website: http://www.glita.org.uk/ and sign up, all I do ask is that if you wish to, you can donate funds via PayPal or by cheque.
All the money raised through this, goes to the charitable side, The Glita Foundation, which raises money, and donates it to other LGBT groups in countries where being gay is illegal and even a death sentence.
I've been working on agreements with groups in Iran, Zimbabwe, India and Jamaica, and have agreed with these groups to help provide support, funds and more importantly showcase their outstanding work to those in the UK, so others can help them achieve the freedom to live as we've managed so far. We'll be working with them jointly on some of their own campaigns this year.
There is so much more to be done, both here and in the World at large to help achieve and protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. We don't want more than equality, we're entitled to it, it's our human right to be be who we should be.
Some people say that individuals can't make a difference unless you have money or power and that you can only make small steps in life.
I don't.
Individuals do have power, if a lot of people take a small step at the same time, they can leave a giant footprint.
If you want to feel like you're making a difference, if you want to feel that you're part of something that's helped change something in the world, then feel free to join GLITA.
As some of you know, I've been working on creating and working on a LGBT rights campaign group to help promote and maintain LGBT rights in here and around the world.
On Monday I launched my main website www.GLITA.org.uk, which is one of the main tools of my campaign group, and is also the link to my charity The Glita Foundation, which works in line with this.
While I know many of you support gay rights, even if you're not gay yourself, I also know that most of you have busy lives where you can't demostrate the fact or just disinclined to do so publicly, apart from attending Pride of course.
I was the same, always busy to go to the protests I wanted to, but I always managed to find time to forward on an email or a petition that was sent around portraying my gay rights ethos.
This is why I set up GLITA, it's a web based organisation, that takes actions and help promotes gay rights online, be it from sending emails to Ruth Kelly or your MP pushing for the Sexual Orientations Regulations, or signing petitions on gay rights abuses here and abroad, like Iran or Zimbabwe.
It's a easy way to show your support, and make the differences that many of us have been affected by, like being bullied in school, work or in the street, just for being who we are, we stand up for those rights and appeal for legislation, training, knowledge and understanding, so that we and others no longer have to suffer in silence or be ashamed. Even if you are not gay personnaly, you know someone who is, either myself or friends of mine, otherwise I wouldn't have your email address, and you can join us too, you don't have to gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to join GLITA, you just want to have a better life for those who you know are, and those who you don't know also.
I've made membership of GLITA free to join, just go to the website: http://www.glita.org.uk/ and sign up, all I do ask is that if you wish to, you can donate funds via PayPal or by cheque.
All the money raised through this, goes to the charitable side, The Glita Foundation, which raises money, and donates it to other LGBT groups in countries where being gay is illegal and even a death sentence.
I've been working on agreements with groups in Iran, Zimbabwe, India and Jamaica, and have agreed with these groups to help provide support, funds and more importantly showcase their outstanding work to those in the UK, so others can help them achieve the freedom to live as we've managed so far. We'll be working with them jointly on some of their own campaigns this year.
There is so much more to be done, both here and in the World at large to help achieve and protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. We don't want more than equality, we're entitled to it, it's our human right to be be who we should be.
Some people say that individuals can't make a difference unless you have money or power and that you can only make small steps in life.
I don't.
Individuals do have power, if a lot of people take a small step at the same time, they can leave a giant footprint.
If you want to feel like you're making a difference, if you want to feel that you're part of something that's helped change something in the world, then feel free to join GLITA.
Labels: GLITA
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Launch of Gay History Month
Today sees the start of LGBT History Month.
LGBT History Month is an opportunity for all of us to learn more about the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans gender people in Britain and Northern Ireland.
Until recently, most LGBT people preferred to avoid attention. Many still do. Even today, the penalties for those who refuse to conceal themselves, or fail to do so, can be severe. They can range from ostracism and victimisation to assault and even murder.
In the past, the silencing of LGBT people was often reinforced by legislation. The most recent example was Section 28, passed in 1988 and repealed in 2003, which was intended to restrict debate on homosexuality, particularly in schools.
There are a number of events to help celebrate LGBT culture and history, and these can be found at:
LGBT History Month Events
Labels: Gay Rights UK, GLITA
Monday, January 29, 2007
Introduction to GLITA
Sometimes as a Gay Liberal, you feel that there many in the country feel that with the lowering of the age of consent, the abolishing of Section 28 and the introduction of Civil Partnerships that there is nothing left to fight for.
Sometimes as a Gay Liberal, you feel that there are those within your party that feel the same way, and even those within the gay community itself.
Sometimes you feel that for your voice to be heard above all those who drown out your arguments against flighting, that you need to start afresh, with new views, new policies and a new fight.
Then you find others who are willing to listening and fight alongside you.
This is how the Gay Liberal Independant Thinkers Association or GLITA for short came about.
We don't feel that attacking other gay groups are the answer, we belive that they bring the fight in their way, and we will bring the fight in our way.
We just ordinary gay people, standing up for our rights and beliefs in equality.
Sometimes as a Gay Liberal, you feel that there are those within your party that feel the same way, and even those within the gay community itself.
Sometimes you feel that for your voice to be heard above all those who drown out your arguments against flighting, that you need to start afresh, with new views, new policies and a new fight.
Then you find others who are willing to listening and fight alongside you.
This is how the Gay Liberal Independant Thinkers Association or GLITA for short came about.
We don't feel that attacking other gay groups are the answer, we belive that they bring the fight in their way, and we will bring the fight in our way.
We just ordinary gay people, standing up for our rights and beliefs in equality.
Labels: GLITA
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