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The last few years have witnessed an unnerving backlash against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in nearly 20 countries, including Russia, Morocco, Uganda, Iraq, Brunei, Syria, Nigeria and The Gambia.
Liberty client John Walker’s landmark legal battle to secure equal pension benefits for his husband will, if he wins, end the financial penalisation of thousands of same-sex couples in civil partnerships and civil marriages.
“This vote to reject the Bishops’ report is a triumph for love and equality. It is the biggest defeat for the Anglican leadership in many decades. Synod rightly refused to endorse the anti-LGBTI exclusion and discrimination advocated by the Bishops,” said Peter Tatchell, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
The government has today confirmed the granting of pardons to men convicted under historic anti-gay laws, pre-2003, for consenting adult same-sex behaviour, where such behaviour is no longer a crime today.
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