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New LGBT Candidates Network
DELGA launched the new Out To Win LGBT Lib Dem candidates network at Bournemouth party conference in September 2008. Find out more.
Join Us
Join the Liberal Democrats to help shape a more liberal, tolerant, inclusive society - and join DELGA to help us make sure our party remains at the forefront of LGBT equality and liberation.
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Mon 22nd Dec 2008
Has your MP signed EDM 360? The President of DELGA has tabled this Early Day Motion in Parliament pressing the government to continue international work tackling discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity following the recent votes at the General Assembly of the United Nations. Evan Harris, Lib Dem MP for Oxford West & Abingdon, put forward the motion on December 17th and it is already attracting cross-party support.
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Read "Evan Harris presses government on tackling discrimination worldwide" in full (196 words).
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Mon 22nd Dec 2008
The Federal Policy Committee would like to invite Liberal Democrat party members to put their name forward to serve on Policy Working Groups. As part of an annual exercise to recruit new members into the working groups, they will put together a panel of potential working group members from which to draw when setting up individual groups.
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Read "Calling all members..." in full (129 words).
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Sat 6th Dec 2008
Stephen Williams MP has welcomed news that the Office of National Statistics, who compile the UK census and similar surveys, will now be including a question on sexual orientation in most of their work - though not in the 2011 census itself. "I think it is a welcome step forward that they will be asking these questions," he said. "It's important we understand the pattern of gay life in modern Britain."
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Read "Not quite in the census, but...!" in full (190 words).
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Wed 3rd Dec 2008
"The Equality Bill in today's Queen's Speech could be excellent news for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people", says DELGA Chair Jen Yockney. "But we need to see the details and make sure that it is suitably broad in its scope. Parliament must take this chance to get it right - particularly on the breadth of trans inclusion, to go further than the limited Gender Recognition Act."
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Read "Equality Bill could be great - we need the detail" in full (110 words).
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Tue 2nd Dec 2008
Former Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London Brian Paddick has been voted off ITV show "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!" He'd been on the programme for 15 days and was the sixth person to be evicted, after spending a night in a cage with rats and cockroaches.
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Read "Commiserations Brian!" in full (70 words).
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Mon 1st Dec 2008
Speaking on World AIDS Day, Liberal Democrat Shadow International Development Secretary, Michael Moore said: "The AIDS pandemic is one of the most significant public health challenges of our time. Meeting the Millennium Development Goals of ensuring universal access to treatment by 2010, and reversing the spread of the disease by 2015, will require a sustained commitment on the part of the international community."
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Read "Government must ensure AIDS eradication efforts properly supported - Moore" in full (96 words).
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Welcome to the website of DELGA, the Liberal Democrats' party organisation committed to promoting the policies of the party to gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people, and to ensuring that the party's policies address their needs.
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At the moment, same-sex couples can have their partnership recognised through Registered Civil Partnership, and mixed-sex couples through marriage. Do you approve of that distinction, or do you think Civil Partnerships should be open to mixed-sex couples and marriage to same-sex.
View the results so far.
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| Quotes of the Week |
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"In another anniversary speech [Nick Clegg] outlined some of the ways the £12bn wasted on the cut in VAT could have been spent. His proposals included funding for insulation and energy efficiency and reopening old railway lines. That sounds to me like a better use of fiscal stimulus on the eve of an era where public spending is going to get eyewateringly tight. "
Steve Richards
Opinion column, The Independent - 23 December
"We don't need an inquiry to know where the blame lies for the invasion of Iraq five and a half years ago. The Government voted for this disastrous war, Gordon Brown signed the cheques and the Tories cheered them on. "
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Responding to the statement on withdrawal of troops from Iraq - 18 December
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