UK
 

Michael Howard Fails
Gay Young People

London: -- Published on January 9, Issue 821 of the Pink Paper lead with a story reminding readers of the Queer Youth Alliance's campaign against Kent County Council's "son of Section 28".

The country's principal newspaper for the LGBT community went on to report that Ben Summerskill, chief executive of Stonewall UK, has pressed Michael Howard to justify Tory-run Kent County Council's stance.

The leader of the Conservative Party has said that it would be "inappropriate" for him to comment, despite his constituency being within the Local Education Authority affected by Kent County Council's policy and previously admitting that Section 28 “was a mistake”.

David Henry, President of the Queer Youth Alliance, said: "We are deeply disappointed that Mr Howard feels he cannot intervene. It sends out a message to gay people everywhere that the Conservative Party are not changing as much as they’d like us to think. Despite this, we still intend to rid Kent of Section 28. It’s now a priority for gay people everywhere, Stonewall are behind us and since they managed to do it across
the entire country, there’s no doubt we’ll win this battle in Kent too. ”

The Queer Youth Alliance is continuing to run it's petition that now has nearly 1000 signatures from all over the globe. You can sign it at our website (see below).

This article was written by the Queer Youth Alliance.  We are particularly encouraged to receive contributions from younger member of the GLTB community and hope that seeing their efforts published "as written" will help them to further express themselves on the subjects they see as important - The Editorial Team.

Click for Queer Youth Alliance web page.

12 January 2004