TOPICS: UK. Gay marketing. 2007. UK lesbian and gay market. Gay marketing in UK. Gay and lesbian market. Lesbian and gay consumers win new rights of protection under UK laws in UK market regarding the provision of goods and services. Equality Act 2006 Northern Ireland regulations pass House of Lords, and expected to apply to England and Wales around April 2007. Commission for Equality and Human Rights to be established to monitor enforcement of new laws to protect lesbian and gay community of Northern Ireland. Pink News article. Stonewall.
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Today's online UK news service Pink News carries a good article about the vote this week in the UK on new gay consumer protection laws.
The article also includes some good quotes from Ben Summerskill, head of UK gay civil rights group, Stonewall. We should point out, based on discussions with Stonewall earlier today, that the regulations passed this week apply specifically to Northern Ireland.
These regulations are currently believed to form the blueprint for similar enabling regulations for England and Wales expected by members of the House of Lords to be voted on around April 2007.
Here is the Pink News item:
Survey finds 5% of gay men face discrimination
12th January 2007 10:03am
Tony Grew
In the last year 5% of gay men and 4% of lesbians have been refused good or services because of their sexuality.
The findings come in the week the House of Lords rejected an attempt by Christian activists to rescind the Sexual Orientation Regulations that came into force in Northern Ireland on January 1st.
The Out Now Diva and Gay Times Readers Surveys questioned more than 1,000 gay men and lesbians in the UK who read Diva or Gay Times.
The government puts the population of lesbian and gay people in the country at 3 million.
Stonewall have been spearheading the campaign to introduce the new Sexual Orientation Regulations in England and Wales.
Last year, Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly decided to delay their introduction because of the large volume of responses from the public the proposed new rules had generated.
Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill said of the survey results, "it doesn't surprise us at all. It confirms the evidence we had gathered for the campaign. Even 5% is unacceptable."
Stonewall's campaign has this week included lobbying peers to vote down a proposal to rescind the Sexual Orientation Regulations, brought forward by the DUP's Lord Morrow.
The British government chose to implement the regulations in Northern Ireland ahead of England and Wales.
During the debate, Lib Dem peer Baroness Harris gave the House of Lords some examples of the sorts of discrimination LGB people face in accessing goods and services.
"One gay couple from Northern Ireland wrote to Stonewall recently saying why they were turned away late at night from a country hotel which they had booked months before in order to attend a sister's wedding. They found the experience utterly humiliating.
"Stonewall also says that it heard from a woman who went to see her GP, having suffered from work-related stress.
"When the woman mentioned her lesbian partner in conversation, she was told that she was engaging in unnatural, inhuman practices and that it was none too surprising that she would be suffering from mental distress as a consequence.
"The unnatural, inhuman practices were being perpetrated by the GP. It deeply saddens me to have to say that.
"It is essential that these regulations are accepted by Parliament and that Northern Ireland should lead the way towards a tolerant, caring and humane society."
Ian Johnson, managing director of Out Now Consulting, which conducted the survey, commented, "we think people will be shocked to learn that so many people during a 12-month period were effectively turned away by organisations that refused to serve them - because they were gay. That is just wrong."
"That sort of thing ought not happen in a modern society if all members of the community are to be treated equally and with respect."
The (UK) government puts the population of lesbian and gay people in the country at 3 million.
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