Gay rights: National pride

Trawling hard for support in unrewarding times, Labour has made a determined pitch to gay and lesbian voters in the run-up to today's Gay Pride march in London. Gordon Brown's poetic comment on Thursday that "you can't legislate love" was part of an insistent government message that Labour has stood up for gay people through the years, while the Conservatives cannot be trusted with equality. Other ministers went further. The Tory heart remains homophobic, charged Harriet Harman, pointing to the opposition's alliance with anti-gay parties in Europe and its fence-sitting on gay adoption, and warning gay voters not to be fooled by David Cameron's recent apology for his party's 1988 legislation outlawing the promotion of homosexuality. Openly gay ministers Chris Bryant and Ben Bradshaw have taken up the same theme, with Mr Bryant... [read full story]                    

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