{"id":2032,"date":"2015-05-26T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T08:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:08","slug":"gay-rights-the-uk-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/05\/26\/gay-rights-the-uk-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay rights: the UK situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/2010-to-2015-government-policy-equality\/2010-to-2015-government-policy-equality\"> government support for equality and recent legal reforms. d<\/a>iscrimination continues<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/364198\/hosb0214.pdf\">Home Office recorded<\/a> 4,622 hate crimes concerning sexual orientation in England and Wales and 555 concerning transgender.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galop.org.uk\/the-hate-crime-report\/\">Galop<\/a> has also found high levels in London<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonewall.org.uk\/\">Stonewall<\/a> continues to reveal examples of discrimination.\u00a0 Its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonewall.org.uk\/at_school\/education_for_all\/quick_links\/education_resources\/9726.asp\">2014 report from teachers<\/a> found that despite recent improvement, 86% of secondary schools experienced homophobic bullying<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthchances.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/YC_REPORT_FirstFindings_2014.pdf\">Youth Chances<\/a> agreed that the majority of LGBT youth continue to suffer stigma which often leads to related mental trauma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite government support for equality and recent legal reforms. discrimination continues In 2014, the Home Office recorded 4,622 hate crimes concerning sexual orientation in England and Wales and 555 concerning transgender. Galop has also found high levels in London Stonewall continues to reveal examples of discrimination.\u00a0 Its 2014 report from teachers found that despite recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[222,162,234,221,54,243,93],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-sociology","tag-bullying","tag-crime","tag-criminology","tag-discrimination","tag-gay-equality","tag-sociology","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}