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 | | Afterwards, over coffee and biscuits-a ritual more associated with constituency scrabble tournaments than with heart-to-hearts about the party's sexuality-campaigners and candidates discussed the problems of "elgeebeetees" (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people). |
 | | All this from the party whose rejection a couple of years ago of Michael Portillo, the front-running leadership candidate, was put down by many to his admission of a homosexual encounter; the party that, according to Ben Summerskill of Stonewall, a gay rights group, had a culture of homophobia in its headquarters. |
 | | According to the British Social Attitudes survey, 70% of Britons thought homosexuality was wrong in 1985; by 2000 that had dropped to 47%. |
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