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Likely appointment of a permanent officer to carry jut this work. Fourthly, the Joint Education/Social Services/Leisure Committee is to be asked to consider the implications of the new policy.
The conditions should thus be created for permanent access by gays and gay organisations to Council and trade union bodies, and through them gay rights at work can be developed and extended into other areas such as County support for changes to the school curriculum to recognise the validity of gay relationships, support for gay counselling, befriending and self-help groups, including the provision of gay community centres. These are realistic demands that could be repeated within authorities up and down the country.
With more gay people coming out as gay at work, the incidence of visible discrimination against us is increasing. But the greater willingness of gays to fight back is making more heterosexuals aware of the problems we face; many now see our situation as analagous to that of women and blacks.
Twenty years ago special consideration for these two disadvantaged groups would not have been seen as a worthwhile issue to pursue. Future campaigning for gay rights in employment by gays and non-gays and ways of influencing the Labour Party's position on gay rights are just two of the subjects for discussion at the one-day National Conference of the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights in Nottingham on 24 July.
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