http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/09/stonewall-annual-awards.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:43:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/09/stonewall-annual-awards.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2209 lynne featherstone Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:47:38 +0000 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/?p=5029#comment-2209 Well - I would like to think it's because of my campaigning on a number of issues such as: equality in blood donation (currently gay men have a blanket ban on donating blood - and my argument during the Equality Bill etc has been that it should be risk based on behaviour - not blanket ban); have fought for harassment of gay kids in school to be explicily against the law on the face of the Bill; have and am still trying to get this stupid government to understand the importance of gender identity issues and so on and so on. But it may just be that Stonewall think that they need to nominate a LibDem to even things up. Perhaps Stonewall would enlighten me! Well - I would like to think it's because of my campaigning on a number of issues such as: equality in blood donation (currently gay men have a blanket ban on donating blood - and my argument during the Equality Bill etc has been that it should be risk based on behaviour - not blanket ban); have fought for harassment of gay kids in school to be explicily against the law on the face of the Bill; have and am still trying to get this stupid government to understand the importance of gender identity issues and so on and so on. But it may just be that Stonewall think that they need to nominate a LibDem to even things up. Perhaps Stonewall would enlighten me!

]]> http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/09/stonewall-annual-awards.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2206 David Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:30:01 +0000 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/?p=5029#comment-2206 It would be really interesting for you to tell us on your blog, why you think you have been nominated for the Stonewall Award, Lynne. It would be really interesting for you to tell us on your blog, why you think you have been nominated for the Stonewall Award, Lynne.

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