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	Gay Monitor - History of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality
		There must be equality: an end to discrimination and C H E as it became called advocated and worked for the practise and use by gays of their rights under the law.
		CHE collected a GOOD BODY, an honourable body, of Vice Presidents – these things were very necessary in those days – but the main bulk of the early committees – and later of all committees were of gays themselves who were the first to “come out”.
		CHE persisted – constantly meetings were held – we took the main Central Library in Burnley: advertised on the buses.
	www.gaymonitor.co.uk /chehistory.htm (1449 words)

	Gay Monitor - Allan Horsfall and Ray Gosling monitoring injustice against the Gay Community
		A homosexual may be content in his homosexuality, but he has a right to sexual normality and should be led there where possible - that possibility of course, depending on the physical or psychological roots of the case in question.
		However, it is on the supposition that "homosexuality is a normal and viable alternative to heterosexuality" that the Committee for Homosexual Equality base their claim for a club in Burnley.
		It is on the supposition that homosexuality is an abnormal and non-viable alternative that the Burnley and District Christian Group oppose it.
	www.gaymonitor.co.uk /esquire3.htm (5056 words)

	AIM25: British Library of Political and Economic Science: Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE)
		NWHLRC was renamed the Committee for Homosexual Equality in 1969, and became the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in 1971.
		Throughout the 1970s, CHE was the main British homophile organisation, growing from 100 members in 1969 to 2, 800 members and 60 local groups by 1972.
		The CHE local groups were active throughout England and Wales, retaining a high level of autonomy and often producing regular newsletters giving details of social and campaigning activities.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/1/3216.htm (528 words)

	Equality Riders Experience Redemptive Suffering at North Central University
		Several Equality Riders were pushed and pulled from doorways by North Central University security after beginning a sit-in on the campus of the school, but no Riders were injured.
		Equality Riders spoke for two hours about their coming out experiences, their faith journeys and their reasons for coming on the Ride.
		The Equality Riders reflect on the lessons of history, which have shown past religion-based discrimination against women, people of color, and religious minorities to be an unacceptable abuse of the sanctity of religion.
	www.soulforce.org /article/787 (1387 words)

	Homosexual Law Reform Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Homosexual Law Reform Society was a homophile organisation that campaigned in the United Kingdom for changes in the laws that crimialised homosexual relations between men.
		The HLRS was most active during the campaign which led to the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967.
		However, many (in particular the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and the Gay Liberation Front) considered that the new law did not go far enough and blamed the HLRS for what they saw as a weakening of the Wolfenden Committee's proposals, calling the HLRS/Albany Trust a conformist outfit of "Uncle Toms".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexual_Law_Reform_Society (651 words)

	MEXICO: Anti-Homophobia Campaign Draws Fire from Conservatives, Catholics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was one of an average of 30 homosexuals killed because of their sexual preferences every year in Mexico, which will be launching an official government campaign against homophobia in April.
		"Equality begins when we recognise that we all have the right to be different" and "For an influential, tolerant and plural Mexico" are two of the slogans that will be broadcast on radio in 15 cities during the first phase of the campaign.
		With their hands and feet bound, tortured or stabbed to death, the gay men and women murdered in numerous parts of the country are proof of the injustice and hatred that prevail with regard to sexual diversity, said writer Carlos Monsiváis, a member of the Citizens Commission.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=27872 (958 words)

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		Obviously this is discrimination; homosexual citizens of the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden with foreign partners are being denied the right to free movement despite the government in their own country recognising such relationships.
		Where some European countries recognise homosexual relationships in the law and allow homosexuals to marry or register their partnership it could be argued that the homosexual partner is covered by 1(a).
		To begin the campaign and agree on the common demand that should be made a founding conference should take place made up of organisations and individuals from the member states identified as having an interest in campaigning around this issue.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/orgs/SIG/european.campaign (943 words)

	Equality Texas :: Our Issues - At a glance - Family Equality
		Equality Texas successfully defeated anti-family bills in 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 that would have denied LGBT individuals and couples the right to adopt and foster children in Texas.
		In 2005, he attempted to pass an amendment disqualifying "homosexual" and "bisexual" Texans from serving as foster parents and required Child Protective Services to investigate the sexual orientation of current and future foster parents, requiring the removal of thousands of children from their loving homes.
		Equality Texas will continue to educate our legislators about, and to advocate on behalf of, LGBT families to defeat any restrictions on foster care or adoption.
	www.equalitytexas.org /issues/parenting/?source=our_stories1 (1164 words)

	Campaign for Homosexual Equality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) is a national gay rights organisation in the United Kingdom which aims to promote legal and social equality for lesbians, gays and bisexuals.
		The NWHLRC, on the contrary, felt that much remained to be done, and named itself the Committee for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in 1969 with a view to becoming a national body for England and Wales (in close co-operation with its counterpart north of the border, the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG)).
		CHE's local groups throughout England and Wales were often highly independent, producing their own newsletters giving details of social and campaigning activities in their own area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Campaign_for_Homosexual_Equality (672 words)

	Guardian \| Pride and prejudice
		Started by Allan Horsfall and Colin Harvey to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality, it is Britain's first grassroots gay rights organisation.
		Gay News is prosecuted by morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse for "blasphemy" after printing James Kirkup's poem imagining a Roman centurion having sex with Jesus of Nazareth.
		Equal rights are granted to lesbian and gay couples applying for adoption.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5026192-111157,00.html (252 words)

	Reforming the law - homosexual law reform in New Zealand - NZHistory.net.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Their arguments often rested on moral and religious grounds: that homosexuality was 'unnatural', and that the Bible condemned it.
		Homosexuality and paedophilia — sex with children — were sometimes regarded as the same thing.
		Groups such as the New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Society, the Gay Task Force, Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays (HUG), the Lesbian Coalition and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality tried to counter their opponents in many ways.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/homosexual-law-reform-reforming (1109 words)

	Homophile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term "homophile" began to disappear with the emergence of the Gay Liberation movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, replaced by a new set of terminology such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, although some of the homophile groups survived until the 1980s, 90s and even the present day.
		After the gains made by the homosexual rights movements of the late 19th and early 20th century, the vibrant homosexual subcultures of the 20s and 30s became silent as war engulfed Europe.
		Homosexual Law Reform Society (1958 - 1970 when it was renamed as the Sexual Law Reform Society).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homophile_Movement (1133 words)

	Stonewall - Welcome to Stonewall
		Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform (Northern Ireland) appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to force the UK to extend the 1967 Sexual Offences Act to them.
		Male homosexuality decriminalised in Northern Ireland with the passing of law reform in the House of Commons.
		Government amends the Equality Bill, including a clause to make it illegal to discriminate against lesbians and gay men in the provision of goods and services – from NHS care through to hotels and restaurants.
	www.stonewallcymru.org.uk /information_bank/history__lesbian__gay/89.asp?TextSize=large& (2758 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Crisp, Quentin
		Despite the contradictions of his life, particularly the facts that he refused to campaign for homosexual equality and failed to grasp the seriousness of the AIDS epidemic, by the end of his life he had become a beloved figure in glbtq culture.
		Homosexuality, both male and female, has a rich, divergent, and increasingly open expression in the literature of the twentieth century.
		The association between homosexuality and fashion is multifaceted, ranging from the role of clothes as signifiers of sexual orientation to the immense contributions gay men have made at all levels of the fashion industry.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/crisp_q_art,2.html (788 words)

	Portillo 'failed to reveal extent of his gay life'
		Nigel Hart, 49, who claims to have had a friendship with Mr Portillo, said most of their sexual relationship was conducted after Mr Portillo had left Peterhouse, Cambridge, and continued into the time of his early association with the Conservative Party.
		His claims of an affair spanning eight years are embarrassing for Mr Portillo, 46, because they imply that his "homosexual experiences" may have continued beyond his student days until close to the time he entered public life.
		The most damaging claim is that the pair had homosexual sex at the same time as Mr Portillo was dating his future wife, Carolyn Eadie.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/09/13/nmik13.html (549 words)

	Gay and Lesbian Humanist – Taking on Sacred Cows
		CHE’s life president, Allan Horsfall, recalls more than two decades later that there was a serious drain on the money available for others as every penny was being directed towards the
		Publicity was given to what members and the then hundred or so local CHE groups had been doing, in addition to news of what other parallel organisations were planning, such as the National Gay News Defence Committee.
		CHE’s chair David Jenkerson stated in his contribution to the 1978 CHE annual report that many CHE groups and individuals had been present at that march; and much of the financial support for the
	www.galha.org /glh/214/vaughan_williams.html (988 words)

	Gay and Lesbian Humanist – Unfinished Business
		It is 40 years this month, December, since I became secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society and of the Albany Trust (a charity set up alongside the HLRS to carry out research, education and counselling).
		In the autumn of 1957, the Wolfenden Committee (appointed by the government three years earlier to examine the laws relating to homosexuality and prostitution) had reported that homosexual behaviour between consenting adults ought no longer to be a crime.
		They were unfriendly even to the emergence of such a respectable, middle-of-the-road representative organisation as the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE), and positively hostile to the exuberant flamboyance of the Gay Liberation Front when it erupted in the early 1970s.
	www.galha.org /glh/222/campaigning.html (815 words)

	Twenty-one Arrested at West Point Equality Ride Action
		Equality Rider Monica Carmean spoke as one of the organizers the West Point visit.
		Prior to the stop at West Point, Equality Riders were contacted by closeted cadets at the school.
		Although the cadets were unable to make an appearance at the action for fear of being expelled, one informed Riders that several cadets had pooled a donation and contributed to the Equality Ride.
	www.soulforce.org /article/792 (884 words)

	Archive Record (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hall-Carpenter Archives had their roots in the Gay Monitoring and Archive Project established by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in 1980 with the purpose of scrutinising the media for evidence of discrimination and caring for material deposited with CHE by earlier gay rights organisations.
		The Gay Monitoring and Archive Project later became separate from CHE, and spent some time in the care of one of its founders, Julian Meldrum, who was employed on a part-time basis by a Manpower Services Commission grant.
		It was incorporated in 1982 as a limited company under the name of the Hall-Carpenter Memorial Archive Ltd, with a remit of recording and documenting the history of gays and lesbians in Britain.
	www.genesis.ac.uk /archive.jsp?typeofsearch=i&term=notimpl&highlight=1&pk=1852 (668 words)

	The Experience of Violence and Harassment of Gay Men in the City of Edinburgh - Appendix A: Recent Developments in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the course of the study the research brief was adapted to examine in more detail individual police officers' experiences of dealing with lesbian and gay victims of crime, their own responses to homosexuality and the changing relationship between the police and lesbian and gay community.
		Amnesty International believes that the persecution of persons for their homosexuality is a violation of their fundamental human rights, and considers those imprisoned for their sexuality, or for the legitimate exercise of their right to freedom of expression and assembly, to be prisoners of conscience.
		Equally, the importance of racial and ethnic differences in relation to victimisation is also little understood although the small number of studies which addressed the issue have highlighted increased risk of violent attack for Black lesbians and gay men.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /cru/kd01/green/gaymen17.htm (3330 words)

	Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		S.349a of the Penal Code makes it an offence "in business or similar activities" to refuse to give goods or services (on the conditions applicable to others) to a person because of his or her "homosexual inclination, lifestyle, or orientation." The offence can be punished with fines, or with imprisonment of up to six months.
		Under S.135a of the Penal Code it is unlawful "to publicly threaten or deride, or to incite to hatred, persecution or contempt" against a person or group on account of their "homosexual inclination, lifestyle, or orientation." The penalty is a fine, or imprisonment up to a maximum of two years.
		Homosexuals are allowed to serve in the Armed Forces.
	www.ilga.info /Information/Legal_survey/europe/norway.htm (1589 words)

	001-049 - MS Papers List - Lesbian & Gay Archives of New Zealand
		Formed in Nelson in 1985 ACCEPT was active in the campaign for the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, 1985.
		Reformed in 1985 to campaign for the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, 1985, the group was related to the Equality Bill Campaign q.v.
		Established in Christchurch in 1976 as a "cell-group" of Campaign for Homosexual Equality, the group was earlier known as Gays-An and was one of the earliest counselling services in Christchurch.
	www.laganz.org.nz /mspapers/001-049.html (1440 words)

	Lancaster Lesbian and Gay Switchboard 01524 847437 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lancaster Gay Switchboard began after an approach by the Lancaster Branch of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) to Lancaster Samaritans.
		The case was taken up independently by CHE and aired at the 1980 NAGS conference in Nottingham.
		In its early days, the Lancaster Branch of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality was an active campaigning group.
	www.llgswitch.co.uk /history.htm (2894 words)

	Oliver Kamm: Livingstone and the Left
		The first is that the London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, has issued, not at personal expense, a document justifying his welcome last year to the Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
		On this point, as on much else, I agree with Tatchell’s aims while disagreeing with his argument: Livingstone’s conduct is indefensible; his alliance with theocratic reaction is a mockery of the Enlightenment principles that the Left ought to be defined by.
		I am a strong supporter of the campaign for homosexual equality, including gay marriage and adoption rights, but I do not consider that respecting the sensibilities of interest groups is an inherently desirable part of public policy.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2005/01/livingstone_and.html (941 words)

	Equality Maryland
		The ACLU and the ACLU of Maryland brought the legal challenge in cooperation with Equality Maryland on behalf of same-sex couples and a gay widower arguing that Maryland law barring same-sex couples from marriage and its many family protections violates the state constitution.
		Equality Maryland is seeking applicants for the position of Director of Outreach & Education.
		Equality Maryland and the ACLU, in partnership with the Megaphone Project, have released a new documentary featuring the personal stories of three of the couples in Maryland's equal marriage rights lawsuit, Deane and Polyak v.
	www.equalitymaryland.org (870 words)

	John Bowis OBE :: MEP for London :: News
		John Bowis, MEP for London, Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group and President of the Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality (TORCHE) has called for international pressure to be put on Uzbekistan to release Ruslan Sharipov, a journalist imprisoned on grounds of his homosexuality.
		He was arrested on charges of homosexual conduct, criminalised in the Uzbek criminal code, in contradiction with an international covenant ratified by Uzbekistan.
		He was arrested on charges of homosexual conduct, criminalised in that country under the criminal code.
	www.johnbowis.com /031027news.htm (353 words)

	Press Release Oct 2004 Manchester town hall to host commemoration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the law changed in 1967, the NWHLRC became the Committee for Homosexual Equality and finally the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) with a national office firstly on Kennedy Street and then at 33 King Street, Manchester.
		By 1977, CHE had 120 local groups and 5,000 members and worked tirelessly to progress the cause of equality for lesbians and gay men.
		Councillor Pat Karney, Manchester City Council’s equality spokesperson, said: “Manchester can be justly proud of its record in striving to achieve equality of opportunity for the diverse mix of communities which contribute to the city’s exciting and unique character.
	www.manchester.gov.uk /news/2004/oct/host.htm (421 words)

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