The Human Rights Act    -    From October 2, 2000, the Human Rights Act comes into full effect.  It safeguards 16 basic  rights, like the right to liberty, freedom of expression and respect for private and family life.  These are all the things we should have been used to in this country, (that is, if you are not gay, or black).  But if your rights are ever infringed, it's good to know that there's something you can do about it.   If you would like to know more about the Human Rights Act, you can visit the Home Office human rights unit.

If you are a minicom user, please call 0845-600-0347.

NATIONAL LAWS

December 2005
The Civil Partnership Act passed by Parliament is intended to bring in wholesale changes to the legal position of lesbian and gay couples. This Act effects everything from parental rights to pensions and bereavement issues

The government has announced an official implementation date of The Civil Partnership Register as 5th December 2005, allowing same–sex couples to sign the register from 21st December 2005 onwards.

14 July 2003 - The House of Lords has supported the repeal of Section 28 in England and Wales by a majority of 180 to 130 votes.  Section 28 will now be repealed two months after the Local Government Bill comes into law over the summer.

Allows foreign partners of gay citizens to receive residency permits.

Sexually explicit gay literature cannot be imported.

Allows gays in the military.

ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES & NORTHERN IRELAND

Have no sodomy laws.

The age of sexual consent is 16 for gay males, and 16 for heterosexuals and lesbians, except in Northern Ireland, where the heterosexual and lesbian age of sexual consent is 17.

Same-sex age of consent offences are treated much more seriously than equivalent heterosexual offences: "for consensual heterosexual intercourse with girls between 13 and 16 the tariff [a band, established by Appeal Court decisions, within which a sentence is supposed to fall] is a fine or a conditional discharge or imprisonment up to 1 year for older offenders. In practice, the male partner is usually given a caution or, if prosecuted at all, no more than a fine. For consensual sexual activity by a man with a boy of corresponding age, however, the tariff, which in this instance the courts tend to follow, is 3 - 5 years imprisonment."

Consensual S/M sex is illegal.

Sex may only involve 2 people.

Sex may only take place in ones home.

Scotland's parliament grants travel allowances to the domestic partners of its gay and straight members. 

Partners are reimbursed for up to 12 journeys a year between their homes and Edinburgh.

DEPENDENT TERRITORY LAWS & NOTES

The British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat and Cayman Islands, all British dependent territories, have sodomy laws. The Turks and Caicos Islands has a sodomy law for males, punishable with up to life imprisonment at the discretion of the judge. The law is silent with regard to the legal status of sexual acts between women.

Bermuda, a British dependent territory, has no sodomy laws.

Gibraltar, has no sodomy laws, the age of sexual consent is 18 for homosexuals, and 16 for heterosexuals.

In the Cayman Islands, Julianna O`Connor-Connolly, Community Affairs Minister, is very anti-gay.

OTHER INFO

British police are reportedly earning financial bonuses for arresting men on charges of seeking  contact.

All of Britains rail services offer travel benefits to same-sex couples.

CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON LESBIAN & GAY EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS.

Openly Gay Politicians:

Waheed Alli (Labour), House of Lords.

David Borrow (Labour), House of Commons, (South Ribble).

Ben Bradshaw (Labour), House of Commons, (Exeter).

Nick Brown (Labour), House of Commons, (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East & Wallsend).

Ron Davies (Labour), House of Commons, (Caerphilly).

Angela Eagle (Labour), House of Commons, (Wallasey).

Peter Mandelson (Labour), House of Commons, (Hartlepool).

Gordon Marsden (Labour), House of Commons, (Blackpool South).

Chris Smith (Labour), House of Commons, (Islington, South and Finsbury).

Stephen Twigg (Labour), House of Commons, (Enfield, Southgate).

Jaci Taylor (Plaid Cyrmu), Mayor, Aberystwyth, Wales.

Outspokenly Anti-Gay Politicians:

Nicholas Soames, Armed Forces Minister.

Lord Tebbit (Conservative), House of Lords.

Baroness Janet Young (Conservative), House of Lords.

Julian Brazier (Conservative), House of Commons, (Canterbury).

Jamie Cann (Labour), House of Commons, (Ipswich).

Liam Fox (Conservative), House of Commons, (Woodspring).

Roger Gale (Conservative), House of Commons, (North Thanet).

Teresa Gorman (Conservative), House of Commons, (Billericay).

Douglas Hogg (Conservative), House of Commons, (Sleaford & North Hykeham).

Edward Leigh (Conservative), House of Commons, (Gainsborough).

Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist), House of Commons, (North Antrim).

Desmond Swayne (Conservative), House of Commons, (New Forest West).

(Bold name indicates extremely anti-gay)

Companies and Corporations that do Anti-Homosexual Things:

Stagecoach Holdings, this bus company`s chairman donates lots of money to anti-gay causes, Perth, Scotland.

NetBenefit, this Internet Service Provider shut down the gay web site for Outcast magazine.

Media House, they are promoting the anti-gay Keep the Clause Campaign, Glasgow, Scotland.

Consensual S/M sex is illegal.

Sex may only involve 2 people.

Sex may only take place in ones home.

Scotland's parliament grants travel allowances to the domestic partners of its gay and straight members. 

Partners are reimbursed for up to 12 journeys a year between their homes and Edinburgh.

DEPENDENT TERRITORY LAWS & NOTES

The British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat and Cayman Islands, all British dependent territories, have sodomy laws. The Turks and Caicos Islands has a sodomy law for males, punishable with up to life imprisonment at the discretion of the judge. The law is silent with regard to the legal status of sexual acts between women.

Bermuda, a British dependent territory, has no sodomy laws.

Gibraltar, has no sodomy laws, the age of sexual consent is 18 for homosexuals, and 16 for heterosexuals.

In the Cayman Islands, Julianna O`Connor-Connolly, Community Affairs Minister, is very anti-gay.

OTHER INFO

All of Britains rail services offer travel benefits to same-sex couples.

CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON LESBIAN & GAY EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS.

(Bold name indicates extremely anti-gay)

Companies and Corporations that do Anti-Homosexual Things:

Stagecoach Holdings, this bus company`s chairman donates lots of money to anti-gay causes, Perth, Scotland.

NetBenefit, this Internet Service Provider shut down the gay web site for Outcast magazine.

Media House, they are promoting the anti-gay Keep the Clause Campaign, Glasgow, Scotland.

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