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Title: Foreign secretary David Miliband responds to PinkNews.co.uk readers
Post by: Syne on July 07, 2009, 08:52:31 AM
Foreign secretary David Miliband responds to PinkNews.co.uk readers
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13136.html (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13136.html)
By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk • July 7, 2009 - 14:05

Dramatic change has been created since 1997, but there is much to do on transgender rights; there is a debate to be had over equalising the rights of 'married' heterosexual and homosexual couples; we need a strategy to tackle homophobic bullying in schools; homophobia still features too regularly in elements of popular culture; and we need to ensure that we give fair consideration of all LGBT asylum applications, as Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has committed to.