We look at the legacy of gay rights during the time Margaret Thatcher was the British Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher was in power during 1979 and 1990. It was during this period that gay people suffered the worst healthcare crisis, thanks to AIDS and HIV, the Government’s response was markedly better than that of the US’s.
However, Ms Thatcher was hesitant on some of the languages surrounding the information campaign which would be communicated to the citizens of the UK. In annotations on official documents distributed by Norman Fowler, the Secretary of State for Social Services, Thatcher asked, “Do we have to have the section on risky sex? I should have thought it could do immense harm if young teenagers were to read it”.
During Thatcher’s time in power, a new law aimed specifically at those in education was adopted in 1988 called Section 28 in the UK and Section 2A in Scotland. This law prohibited teachers from “intentionally promoting sexuality” or talking about same-sex relationships in any way that would equal them to traditional families.
Needless to say, this policy undoubtedly added to the confusion and fear surrounding HIV and AIDS amongst the younger generation and possibly put back its decrease for decades.
After her time as the country’s PM, Thatcher voted negatively on a number of bills affecting the lives of LGBT people in Britain, including adoption rights for same-sex couples, she also voted yes on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, which requires the need for a father and voted yes on timescale conditions of the repeal of Section 28.
She was absent for a number of votes including, The repeal of Section 28 and on the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation).
Did her government pass any anti-gay laws during Margaret Thatcher’s Premiership?
Yes, in 1988, the Government of the day introduced a piece of legislation called Section 28. This law fundamentally restricted people working for the local education authorities from talking about any sexuality other than heterosexuality to school age children. It was a very similar law to the one that Russia passed in June 2013.
What did Margaret Thatcher say in her Anti-Gay Speech
Ms Thatcher barely spoke publicly about homosexuality during her time as PM. In fact, there’s only one speech that she made in which she spoke about homosexuality. It’s widely regarded as her anti-gay speech. This section is just a small portion of a much larger and longer speech, the topics of which reached further than education.
During a speech to the Conservative Party Conference in 1987, Thatcher spoke directly about homosexuality, saying,
“To compete successfully in tomorrow’s world—against Japan, Germany and the United States—we need well-educated, well-trained, creative young people. Because if education is backward today, national performance will be backward tomorrow.
But it’s the plight of individual boys and girls which worries me most. Too often, our children don’t get the education they need—the education they deserve.
And in the inner cities—where youngsters must have a decent education if they are to have a better future—that opportunity is all too often snatched from them by hard left education authorities and extremist teachers.
And children who need to be able to count and multiply are learning anti-racist mathematics—whatever that may be.
Children who need to be able to express themselves in clear English are being taught political slogans.
Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay
All of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life—yes, cheated.”.
Positive steps
During the vote to decriminalise homosexuality 51 years ago this year, Ms Thatcher, way before she was Prime Minister, voted to decriminalise it.
Laws around homosexuality differ from region to region in the UK meaning that gay people in Scotland and Northern Ireland had to wait a lot longer for equality.
(C) BIGSTOCK
Homosexuality was legalised in England and Wales on the 27th July 1967, a decade after the Wolfenden Report recommended that homosexuality should be decriminalised. The Sexual Offences Act was changed to decriminalise homosexuality, up to a point and only if three conditions were met:
that the act was consensual
that both parties were 21 or over
and the act was done in private.
Up until that point, men who were found to be having sex with other men were often charged with Gross Indecency or Buggery charges.
Thousands of men were criminalised because of this law. They were often sent to prison.
When the law changed being gay still wasn’t equal to being straight. The age of consent was 21 and all sexual acts had to be done in private. it wasn’t until the new millennium, that laws pertaining to gay and straight sexual acts were equalised.
Not all gay people in the UK were equal
But not all of the UK’s men were able to be openly gay. The law wasn’t changed until 1981 for homosexuals in Scotland and 1982 for guys in Northern Ireland.
As it stands today, it is currently legal to be gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender across the UK, whether you’re in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. Laws surrounding discriminating because of sexuality or gender expression are very strict in the UK and include employment and business services.
Gay people are permitted to have civil partnerships (since 2004) and get married (2013/14) except in Northern Ireland – the only region in the UK which does not have full equality for LGBT+ people.
Mohammed Ilyas has been jailed for 12 years after being convicted of rape by a Leeds Crown Court.
A taxi driver who orally raped another man who got into his car has been jailed for 12 years. Mohammed Ilyas, 44, was found guilty of raping a passenger in the early hours one morning in May 2016. The unnamed victim, who had been drinking at a pub in Leeds, was put into the cab waiting outside the New Penny, in Leeds, by his friends, who assumed he would be safe.
The court heard how LLyas drove his cab to a remote farm area where he orally raped his victim.
The court heard how the victim had been driven to feeling suicidal following the attack. The impact state read, “Because of what the taxi driver did to me that night I have at many points been suicidal.
“I never go to town alone anymore and will never get a taxi alone again.
“I will never forget this. I don’t know when or if I will ever get over it.”
“Engineering a situation”
Jailing Ilyas for 12-years, Judge Tom Bayliss QC said, “I’m quite sure that you deliberately parked your taxi outside what you knew was a gay pub, thus deliberately engineering a situation where you found yourself alone in your taxi with a passenger who was incapacitated by drink.
“That passenger had come from a pub, you then committed rape on him, a homosexual rape upon a man who you had seen coming from a gay pub. “I’m quite sure that you targeted (the victim).
“It may not have been long in the planning, but once you saw, you him stopped your taxi and you targeted him.”
Mr Llyas pleaded not guilty during his trial in September.
Judge Bayliss also banned LLyas from contacting his victim and from returning to work as taxi driver in the future.
Is it unusual for gay and bi guys who are in relationships to open it up?
(C) BELAMI
Sometimes what we do in our own community might seem strange to those outside it, like this straight-identified man who took to Reddit to ask whether it was normal for gay guys to have open relationships after his gay friend confided in him that he was getting bored of married life after just one year and decided to have a threesome.
Reddit gays were on hand to let him know that it’s not that uncommon that gay couples, but not always, to open up their relationships – to differing degrees.
So what are those degrees of an open relationship?
The door has a keyhole
Where a couple might talk or fantasise about having a threesome or a four-way with another couple. It’s on the table, the discussion is happening, maybe they even watch threesome porn together, but they’re not physically committed yet.
The door is open a crack
There’s the casual threeway, where you both agree on the same person, set up a date and go for it.
The screen door
This is where a couple regularly has three ways, four ways or even attend orgies. They are okay with their partner having sex with other people and don’t necessarily have to be involved, as long as they are in the same room or building or event.
The stable door
Both parties of a relationship are “allowed” to go play with other people, but it’s strictly “don’t ask don’t tell” and “not in our bed”.
The door is wide open
This is where the couple is open and honest about having sex with other people. There still may be rules attached to the sex, like condoms only, but generally, both parties in the relationship are happy about their partner having sex with someone else. The line would be drawn at creating an emotional attachment to someone outside the relationship.
The Truple (the swing door??)
I can’t take the door analogy any further but the truple is where a couple decides to open their relationship in all senses, sexually and emotionally and allow a third to become part of the family.
(C) BIGSTOCK
So, is it common?
So going back to the Reddit guy – what was he asking? Well, he asked the AskGayMen community whether it was more common for amongst gay, married men to have threesomes, get bored of their relationships or play away dates with other guys.
Here’s what Reddit had to say on the matter of open relationships amongst gay men.
Really quite common
It’s actually way more common for gay men to have open relationships than it is for straight couples. [VIA]
Gay people are just, in general, more open about it with each other, whereas straight people often just cheat on each other.
I think the gay way of doing things is a lot better. Pure sexual monogamy clearly doesn’t work for many people, and it’s nice to be able to be honest about it with my partner instead of lying to each other and destroying each others’ trust. [VIA]
Maybe not about being bored
I can’t speak for every gay man but for me I know I would love a threesome or even more. I think more context is needed around the “bored” part. Is he bored in general or just bored in the bedroom? [VIA]
Open doors
Most of the gay couples I know have open / semi-open relationships. My husband and I have been together for 14 years and are mostly monogamous but allow each other to have rare, limited things on the side. [VIA]
Not a red flag
The threeway isn’t a red flag. Pretty common. The “bored” comment is a red flag. After more than ten years, I’m still more entertained by six hours of silence in a car next to my spouse than I am by five minutes alone. [VIA]
Our own rules
Don’t worry about it – gays have their own rules. [VIA]
So what do you think? Are you open to an open relationship?
Hate crimes against gay and bisexual people in the UK have rocketed by double-digit figures, new statistics show.
(C) BIGSTOCK
Twelve percent (11,638 crimes) of recorded hate crimes in England and Wales were directed at gay and bisexual people new figures from the Home Office reveal, a 17 percent increase since last year.
Two percent of recorded hate crime (1651 crimes) were those against transgender people – up a staggering 32 percent.
Overall recorded hate crimes were up, with nearly 100,000 crimes reported. Double the amount in just five years. The majority of hate crime (75%, 71,251 crimes) were racially motivated. Religious-based hate crime accounted for 9 percent (8336 crimes) of recorded crimes.
A report from the Home Office made a suggestion as to why the figures had soared stating, “This increase is thought to be largely driven by improvements in police recording, although there has been spikes in hate crime following certain events such as the EU referendum and the terrorist attacks in 2017,
“It is thought that the sharp increase in religious hate crimes is due to a rise in these offences following the terrorist attacks in 2017.”
Worryingly, the number of closed prosecutions dropped by over 2 per cent from 14,480 in 2016/17 to 14,151 in 2017/18.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid said, “Hate crime goes directly against the long-standing British values of unity, tolerance and mutual respect – and I am committed to stamping this sickening behaviour out.
“Our refreshed action plan sets out how we will tackle the root causes of prejudice and racism, support hate crime victims and ensure offenders face the full force of the law”.
Only a small proportion of crimes get recorded
The home office report also suggests that only a small proportion of hate crimes against LGBT people are reported. The combined 2015/16 to 2017/18 dataset estimates that there were 30,000 sexual orientation hate crimes per year.
There have been nearly 40 presenters of Blue Peter in its 60 years but have there been any openly gay or LGBT+ presenters of the long-running magazine show.
Michael Sundin
In the 1980s Blue Peter hired Michael Sundin who was a gay man. Michael appeared on his first programme in September 1984. However, his time on the show was short-lived when pictures of the presenter appeared in the tabloids of him with a male stripper appeared in print.
He presented 77 shows, but his contract was not renewed in 1985. Theories as to why he was renewed are various; some feel that he was denied an extension to his contract was due to his sexuality, however, bosses at the show apparently thought he had little rapport with viewers. There were also reports that some parents had an issue with his effeminacy.
In an interview in 2007 a former editor of the show, Biddy Baxter denied that Sundin had been sacked because of his sexuality, saying “It was his leaving the programme because children didn’t like him – nothing to do with his sexual proclivities”.
Sadly Michael Sundin would die just a few years later in 1989 from AIDs related complications. He was just 29.
Mark Curry
Mark Curry presented Blue Peter between 1986 and 1989. Curry’s co-hosts during his time with the programme were Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding and John Leslie. In September 2008, Curry formed a civil partnership with his long-term partner, Jeremy Sandle.
Stuart Miles
Stuart Miles joined the Blue Peter presenting team in 1994. He was not openly gay when he presented the show. Since leaving the show, he said, in the News Of The World, “I’ve never made any secret of my sexuality. Sexual frustration can be a powerful thing. I should know after five years on Blue Peter, where you’re expected to be like Action Man – smooth all over with no genitals”.
He joined the Gaydar Radio (now Gaydio) presenting team in 2008.
To our knowledge, there has never been a transgender presenter of Blue Peter.
ITV is about to screen a brand new drama, Butterfly which focuses on issues surrounding a transgender child and their family.
ITV
Butterfly is a heartfelt and sensitive drama about a complex family situation, a child who feels that their gender identity is different from the one chosen at birth.
When their 11-year-old, Max (Callum Booth-Ford), experiences increasingly distressing feelings around gender, separated parents, Vicky (Anna Friel) and Stephen (Emmett J. Scanlan) attempt to work together. But with both parents divided, will Max find the courage to identify as a girl and express herself as Maxine?
Will Maxine’s family be able to accept her for who she really is?
How many episodes of Butterfly are there?
There are three episodes of Butterfly. The first is showing on ITV 1 on Sunday 14th October 2018. The drama will be aired between 9:00 PM and 10.00 PM.
The next two episodes are to be shown at the same time and same day of the week for the following two weeks.
Episode 2 of Butterfly will be shown on the 21st October 2018
Episode 3 of Butterfly will be shown on the 28th October 2018 (not yet confirmed)
Who stars in Butterfly on ITV?
International Emmy award-winning actress Anna Friel (Marcella, Broken), is joined by Emmett J. Scanlan (Harlan Coben’s Safe, The Fall), Alison Steadman (Orphan Black, Gavin and Stacey), Sean McGinley (Paula, On a Clear Day) and child actor Callum Booth-Ford.
Out Olympian Tom Bosworth shared a touching picture of him kissing his husband to be and lost followers on Instagram because of it
(C) MONTY MCKINNEN for THEGAYUK.com
Tom Bosworth has revealed that he lost over 50 followers on Instagram after sharing a picture of him kissing his husband to be, Harry. The post was in tribute to National Coming Out Day and outlined how important coming out was to him.
He wrote, “It’s #nationalcomingoutdayso I thought I’d post the reason I came out, both times (to my parents then publicly). Love of my life, my everything – @harryd1010. To all those struggling with the decision, if the time is right and you have the reason to do it, then DO IT! You’ll instantly feel better and you’ll wonder why you never did it sooner! It won’t be easy, it is terrifying and there will still be challenges to over come, but trust me, it’s worth it. Goodluck and enjoy being the true you!”
However, it seems the post did not go down too well with some of his followers as he lost 50 of them overnight according to the athlete on Twitter.
He wrote, “Last night I shared this picture on Instagram for #nationalcomingoutday. It received a lot of love! Since then 50people unfollow me!
“I dont post romantic pictures very often and Ive never hidden who I am so I dont understand why these individuals followed me in the first place!”
Last night I shared this picture on Instagram for #nationalcomingoutday. It received a lot of love! Since then 50people unfollow me!?
I dont post romantic pictures very often and Ive never hidden who I am so I dont understand why these individuals followed me in the first place! pic.twitter.com/i26ggpiJ1w
Tom got engaged shortly before taking part in the Rio Olympics in 2016. Speaking to THEGAYUK before he left the UK for Rio, Bosworth said, that if Heathrow had the right ring he’d buy it to make his boyfriend an “honest man!”
Speaking about how the pair met Bosworth told THEGAYUK,
“My female friend decided to hit on him. She quite liked the look of him.
“Me and my other friend were sat there trying not to laugh as we quite clearly could see that he perhaps didn’t bat for that team (laughs).
“She got very offended when he said, “You’re not my type.” He was trying to be polite.
“She couldn’t understand why and it was at that point that I walked up to my friend and said, “I think he’s probably more my type, than your type.”
Although it can still be seen as a risk to their careers, even in 2018, there are some incredibly brave, talented and inspiring guys who decided to come out, giving hope to the next generation of actors that they too can be their true selves.
Here are some of the hottest openly gay, bi or queer identifying actors.
Andrew Hayden-Smith
Born: 5th November 1983, Gateshead, England, UK.
Best Known ForByker Grove, Doctor Who.
Came out in 2005 in an interview with a magazine. Andrew is an actor best known for his role as Jake Simmonds in Doctor Who and is set to star in a new drama commissioned by Channel 4 called Cucumber from Queer As Folk writer, Russell T Davies.
Charlie Carver
Born: 31st July 1988 Best Known For: Being one of the twins on Desperate Housewives & Teen Wolf Came Out:On Instagram in 2016. After Desperate Housewives Charlie went on to star in Teen Wolf as Ethan, a gay character who made headlines when MTV aired the first gay kiss, between his character and Danny played by Keahu Kahuanui.
The 27-year-old explained his worries about coming out in the entertainment industry a series of posts on Instagram.
Charlie David
Born: 9th August 1980, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Best Known For: His sexy role in the gay horror series: Dante’s Cove. Since his role on the series Dante’s Cove Charlie has become a film producer and director including titles such as I’m A Porn Star and I’m A Stripper. In 2012 TheGayUK interviewed Charlie along with Elvira The Mistress Of Darkness for their Halloween Special edition.
Chris Crocker
Born: 7th December 1987 Best Known For: “Leave Britney Alone” a viral YouTube video. Came Out: Has always been out. In 2012 he starred in a gay porn film. He made more films with Maverick Men and Lucas Entertainment.
Dan Amboyer
Born: 28th December 1985 Best Known For: Best known for his starring role as Prince William of Wales in the 2011 Hallmark Channel original film William & Catherine: A Royal Romance Came Out: In October 2017. He also announced that he had married his partner, Eric P. Berger.
Daniel Newman
(C) BIGSTOCK
Born: 14th June 1981 Best Known For: staring in the Walking Dead. Came Out: in March 2017, speaking to People he said, “I don’t want to be hidden and have to dodge the question,” he tells PEOPLE of publicly revealing his sexuality. “I’m proud of who I am.”
David Ames
Born: 10th August 1983 Best Known For: British medical soap drama Holby City Came Out: Has always been “out”, although he has appeared in both Attitude magazine in 2009 and Gay Times magazine in 2011.
Jeffery Bowyer-Chapman
(C) BIGSTOCK
Born: 21st October 1984 Best Known For: Playing Jay in UnREAL. Came Out: Has always been open about his sexuality and has played mainly gay/bi-identified characters.
Jim Verraros
Born: 8th February 1983, Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA
Best Known For: American Idol and Eating Out Came out: in 2003 with The Advocate Jim appeared in the first season of American Idol and has appeared in a number of gay movies including, Eating Out, Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild.
Jonathan Groff
CREDIT: Joe-Seer-bigstock-
Born: 21st October 1984 Best Known For: Actor who has starred numerous TV shows and films including, Mindhunter for Netflix and Frozen for Disney. Came Out: Jonathan Groff came out as gay in 2009. He was rumoured to have dated Zachary Quinto from September 2012, until July 2013. He now stars in Looking, along with Russell Tovey and he recently lent his voice for the part of Kristoff Bjorgman in the Disney hit Frozen. He also starred in The Normal Heart.
Jonathan Bennett
(C) BOSSMOSS / DEPOSITPHOTOS
Born: 10th June 1981, Rossford, Ohio, USA Best Known For: Actor who starred in Mean Girls Came Out: Jonathan played Aaron Samuels in one of the ultimate gay cult films, Mean Girls. He appeared in the US version of Dancing With The Stars, three months before he lost his father to brain cancer. He was outed by Julianne Hough during an interview with Extra. He told the Toledo Blade newspaper: “This was his favourite show on television, and when he was sick in hospice the only show he wanted to watch was Dancing with the Stars because he said this show made him feel good. So I’m doing this performance not just for myself but for my father because I know how badly he loved the show and how thrilled he would be that I’m on it. I’m also doing this dance for my mother because she passed away a year before that and they both were huge fans of the show.”
Matt Dallas
Born: 21st October 1982, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Best Known For:Kyle XY Came Out: Came out in 2013, Via a tweet announcing his engagement to Blue Hamilton. Matt Dallas is known for his no bellybutton character Kyle in Kyle XY
Matt Bomer
Born: 11th October 1977, Webster Groves, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, USA Best Known For:Magic Mike Came Out: Came out in 2012 In a speech for his Steve Chase Humanitarian Award, thanking his husband and their children.
Emmy nominated actor, Matt made his television debut in Guiding Light in 2001. He starred alongside Jodie Foster in the 2005 thriller Flightplan. He is married to publicist Simon Halls and the pair have three children together.
Kieron Richardson
Born: 12th January 1986, Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, UK Best KnownFor:Hollyoaks Came out in 2010 September, during an interview with This Morning. Kieron is best known for his role as Ste Hay in the Channel 4 television series Hollyoaks. In 2014 he will make history by playing the first gay character in a British soap to contract HIV, to highlight the growing issue of new HIV Infections in gay and bisexual men. He also hosts a radio show on the World’s largest gay radio station Gaydio.
Luke Macfarlane
Born: 19th January 1980, London, Ontario, Canada Best Known For:Brothers and Sisters. Came out in 2008 during an interview with The Globe And Mail He currently plays the lead role of Jason Howell in the Canadian sitcom Satisfaction.
Nick Adams
Born: 10th June 1983 Best Known For: Theatre actor and starring in the web series Go-Go Boy Interrupted. Came Out: In 2009 He and his boyfriend were denied entry to a nightclub in Manhattan, he says, because of his sexuality. He was holding his boyfriend’s hand when the bouncer denied him entry. Taking to his blog and Twitter Nick caused a huge outcry, which led to the further recognition of him as a personality and, his sexuality.
Michael Urie
Born: 8th August 1980 Best Known For:Ugly Betty Came Out: Michael Urie came to the public’s attention with his fabulously camp character Marc in Ugly Betty. He has since become a playwright and touring actor.
P J Brennan
Born: 11th February 1986 Best Known For: Playing Doug Carter in Hollyoaks. Came Out: Has never officially come out in press interviews, but has not hidden his sexuality.
Ross Adams
Born: 5th May 1982 Best Known For:Hollyoaks Came out: In 2016 he became engaged to his partner, Philip Crusham.
Russell Tovey
Born: 14th November 1981, Billericay, Essex, England, UK
Best Known For:One Life To Love, Younger brother to Chris Evans.
Scott also starred in the campy comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Todrick Hall
(C) TODRICK HALL / INSTAGRAM
Born: 4th April 1985
Best Known For: American Idol / YouTuber
Came Out:
Tituss Burgess
Born: 21st February 1979
Best Known For: Playing Titus in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Came Out: In an interview with Huffington Post, Tituss talked about his comfort in being gay.
Thomas Dekker
Born: 1983
Best Known For:Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Came Out: The actor who started his career in the television series of Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles, publicly come out as gay after comments made by entertainment exec Brian Fuller. Fuller made comments that a gay storyline in the hit TV series, Heroes had to be axed following a dispute behind the scenes. The actor’s management allegedly threatened to pull the actor if the storyline went ahead.
Media outlets worldwide immediately went into speculation overdrive, with Thomas centring.
Zachary Booth
Born: 1983 Best Known For:Damages and the gay movie, Keep The Lights On Came Out:
Zachary Quinto
Born: 2nd June 1977, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Best Known For:Heroes and Star Trek Came Out: Zachary Quinto is probably one of the most famous gay actors under 40 in Hollywood having secured the role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise of films. Before that, he played Sylar in the paranormal television series Heroes.
Daniel Doheny is the star of Netflix’s brand new gay film, The Package, and people want to know if he’s been in any other shows.
BAD_4794.NEF
Daniel Doheny, star of the brand new Netflix film, The Package is a relative newbie in showbiz. However, this is the second film that Daniel has appeared in for Netflix. His first was the gay romance, Alex Strangelove. He’s also appeared in Adventures in Public School, Human Town and False Fiend.
What is The Package starring Daniel Doheny about?
Netflix describes The Package as “When five teens go on a spring break camping trip, an unfortunate accident sets off a race against time to save their friend’s most prized possession”. It was directed by Jake Szymanski and released by Netflix in August 2018.
What part did Daniel Doheny play in Adventures in Public School?
Daniel played the part of Liam Heap in the Canadian comedy, Adventures in Public School.
Is Daniel Doheny gay?
Often when an actor plays a gay part, there’s a certain amount of questioning around that actor’s sexuality. However, Daniel has never spoken openly about his sexuality. Actually very little is known about the actor’s private life. He did, however, speak about his time in high school and dating, revealing, “I had enough on my plate in high school just trying to figure out how to date the people I wanted to date and not being able to. It’s such a mess. It’s a muddy, confusing, emotional time, I wanted to have sex as much as possible but I couldn’t get anybody to do it with me”.
The article does allude to Daniel identifying as a “straight kid”.
Daniel in the new Netflix film, Alex Strangelove
How tall is Daniel Doheny?
Daniel is 5 foot and 8 inches.
Does he have social media?
Daniel has a couple of social media accounts but isn’t particularly active. He is on Instagram at @dohenyd. On Twitter, his account is the same – @Dohenyd.
Where is Daniel Doheny from?
The 20-year-old star was born in Vancouver BC in Canada. He was born on the 13th December 1997, which makes him a Sagittarius.
Does Daniel have a partner?
There’s nothing to suggest from Daniel’s social media accounts that he is currently dating anyone and the rumour mills surrounding Daniel’s love life have been quiet, so far.
In a tweet, Owen Jones has called upon the Natural History Museum to cancel an event hosted by the Saudi Embassy.
(C) National History Musemn
According to Guardian Journalist, Owen Jones, the Saudi Embassy is to hold an event at the Natural History Museum tonight. He called upon the museum to cancel the event saying, “The Saudi dictatorship is massacring thousands in Yemen and is currently accused of kidnapping and murdering a journalist.”
Saudi Arabia is also one of the countries where being gay can still attract the death penalty for those found guilty.
It’s been leaked to me that the Natural History Museum is hosting a reception for the Saudi Embassy tonight, 7-9pm.
The Saudi dictatorship is massacring thousands in Yemen and is currently accused of kidnapping and murdering a journalist.@NHM_London must cancel and apologise. pic.twitter.com/1ogRDyHTEE
The Natural History Museum, which sees 5.2 million people pass through its doors every year, is often used to host charity and gala events in its iconic building in London.
Amnesty International notes,
“Women and girls continued to face discrimination in law and practice, despite the government’s promised reforms. Women were required to have permission from a male guardian – their father, husband, brother or son – to enrol in higher education, seek employment, travel or marry. They also remained inadequately protected against sexual and other forms of violence”
“Courts continued to impose death sentences for a range of crimes, including drug offences or for conduct that under international standards should not be criminalized, such as “sorcery” and “adultery”. Many defendants were sentenced to death after unfair trials by courts that convicted them without adequately investigating allegations of coerced “confessions”, including under torture.”
Commercial events bring an “important source of external funding”
Speaking to THEGAYUK.com a spokesperson for the museum said,
“The Natural History Museum was booked by the Saudi embassy over two months ago as a venue for an external event to celebrate Saudi Arabia Day. No Museum staff are attending as guests or speaking at the event.
“Enabling commercial events to take place outside of public opening hours in our iconic spaces brings the Museum an important source of external funding, which allows us to maintain our position as a world class scientific research centre and visitor attraction. We hold a wide variety of commercial events and it is made clear to any host that doing so is not an endorsement of their product, service or views.
“We have an Ethics Policy and a Third Party Engagement Policy. These policies are publicly available on the Museum’s website.”
