STONEWALL NEWSLETTER Volume 3, Number 1 January 1995 SOD DISCRIMINATION - SUPPORT THE SOD BILL! STONEWALL is preparing a draft Bill to make discrimination in the workplace unlawful. The Sexual Orientation Discrimination Bill - or the SOD Bill, for short (!) - would extend the Sex Discrimination Act to include discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, at least in the employment field. The plan is to get the Bill tabled as a private member's bill in the House of Lords, and a number of peers are already keen to help. The time is right for this campaign. Discrimination in the workplace is a major problem. 8% of lesbians and gay men have been dismissed and 48% have been harassed at work because of their sexuality. 68% are not out at work. And lesbians and gay men have no right to equal pay and pensions. But the government has no plans to do anything about it. Sex discrimination and race discrimination are already illegal. Soon, we hope, disability discrimination will also be illegal. Why should lesbians and gay men be left behind? The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats already support anti-discrimination legislation in principle. The Conservatives tend to oppose further anti-discrimination legislation, but the success of the disabled rights campaign shows that they can overcome their objections if enough public pressure is brought to bear. You can help by writing to your MP now to ask for his or her support for the principle of anti-discrimination laws protecting lesbians and gay men. We will keep a list of MPs who support our Bill, and Mps who oppose it, or are sitting on the fence, so please let us have a copy of any response you get. While you are at it, why not write to Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Employment, to ask what plans he has to tackle discrimination against lesbians and gay men? Write to him at: Dept of Employment, Caxton House, Tothill Street, London SW1H 9AT. DISABLED RIGHTS - BUT WHAT ABOUT HIV? The Government has published a Disability Discrimination Bill after concerted lobbying by disabled people and their organisations. Disability organisations greeted the bill as a half hearted measure, more a damage limitation exercise than a genuine attempt to introduce comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation. The Bill makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate on the grounds of disability, and gives new rights of access to goods and services, but both these measures are heavily qualified and the Bill is riddled with exemptions. The definition of disability includes progressive conditions, but it is not yet clear whether this is intended to include HIV. The Government's turnaround in presenting this Bill is significant as it represents the first extension of anti-discrimination measures since the sex and race discrimination acts of the 1970s. It has been rushed in under enormous political and public pressure in a year which saw equality and civil rights issues emerge as key political demands. Future attempts at making sexuality discrimination unlawful can benefit greatly from working with the wider civil rights and equality lobbies. Bernard Donoghue, Rights Now - As we went to press Stonewall and a number of AIDS groups were lobbying for the Bill to give legal protection to people facing discrimination on the grounds of their HIV status. RAF TEST CASE TO GO AHEAD Jeanette Smith, who was dismissed from the RAF in December, has obtained Legal Aid to challenge her dismissal in the High Court. Jeanette and her partner (a civilian) were both interrogated by RAF police, and both were asked whether they had interfered sexually with their 16 year old foster daughter. The case is one of several planned by the armed forces legal challenge group, run jointly by Stonewall and Rank Outsiders. FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK What should we be fighting for in 1995? At least we can be sure that there will be more of us joining in the movement for change. This time last year our Immigration Group had only 30 members; now it has 400 and Pink Paper readers have voted Mark Watson Man of the Year. Diva, the new lesbian magazine, has been a runaway success; and in just six months the Lesbian Avengers have been voted community organisation of the year. But as more people move into action we will also need to learn more about consulting each other, working together and building a common agenda for civil rights. At the end of the 1980s, when Stonewall and OutRage! both began, there was an implicit recognition that one large national democratic organisation was unlikely to be able to accommodate all the diverse opinions and political views within the community. Lesbians and gay men with different approaches decided to stop arguing and get on with their own agenda. Now the very successes of all the groups in 1995 mean that if we are to make the big advances that are now possible, we will have to learn to build coalitions amongst lesbian and gay communities, as well as in society at large. This doesn't mean that we have to keep quiet about our political differences, but that we have to be careful that what divides us is not stronger than what unites us. This, I think, is the danger of the new editorial stance of the Pink Paper. Following a row about the number of tickets we gave them for the Equality Show and the post-show party, the Pink have decided to adopt a critical editorial stance which is evident to all. Clearly this is of some concern to us and of course we think "it's unfair". We do have to listen to criticisms and the gay press is there to voice those concerns. But there is a thin line between constructive criticism and destructive hostility that we all need to learn to tread. This will be especially important in the next two years. Politically we are now in the run up to the next election. We have to make sure that our claim for full civil rights is on the political agenda. This covers four key areas, sexual offences reform, anti-discrimination laws, partnership recognition, and parenting rights. At the moment there is likely to be most support for an anti-discrimination bill, but we need to use this to open up the political agenda and to help build support for full civil rights and reform of the criminal law. A Civil Rights (Lesbians and Gay Men) Bill could bring together a wide coalition of support, and give a clear political focus to our demands. Talking and listening and agreeing on what we want will not be easy, but we now have a window of opportunity. We should seize the moment and make sure we spend 1995 fighting for our rights, not fighting each other. Angela Mason SPAN UPDATE Letter writing campaigns have become part of the Stonewall message. To make the job easier we have invested in a nifty piece of software which automatically records the political constituency of supporters. (During the age of consent campaign we had to do this by poring over street maps!) We can now target MPs, MEPs, and local councils and get local constituents to take up local issues. Instead of a regular SPAN target we are trying to respond to issues when they occur. In November we received calls about the large number of arrests for gross indecency in Norwich. We wrote to 100 supporters in the Norwich area asking them to contact the Chief Superintendent who had authorised the operations using fibre optic surveillance equipment and the local paper that published names and even photographs of those men arrested. A lively correspondence ensued in the local paper and the police were forced to defend what they had done. We have now been in contact with the local MP who is encouraging the Chair of the Police Authority to meet with us and local individuals who have taken up the issue. We haven't won yet but we are showing that the police and local councils can't now get away with this sort of operation unchallenged. We also responded to the raid on Clone Zone by writing to our 200 supporters in the Chelsea constituency asking them to write to Nicholas Scott MP and the Chief Superintendent at Chelsea police station. Is this the best way of using the SPAN idea? Let us know what you think. And let us know of any local outbreaks of homophobia that you think we could take up. ON-LINE AT LAST If you use the Internet you may have been wondering whether we would ever get on there. We're doing so at last with the help of the Direct Connection, who have very kindly given us a free account. By the time you read this we will be on-line at stonewall.org.uk. Please address E-mail to postmaster@stonewall.org.uk. THE FIGHT FOR 16 GOES ON... Mass lobby of Parliament on 21 February The National Union of Students (NUS) Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Campaign supported by Stonewall, THT and Outrage, is organising a lobby of Parliament on the anniversary of the age of consent vote last year. The lobby will take place at 2pm and a meeting will also be taking place in the Grand Committee Room. Stonewall and the NUS will be putting pressure on the 39 Labour MPs who voted against 16, urging them to "come out" now for equality. With Outright Scotland we will also be supporting a new Scottish initiative to move an amendment for 16 to the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill, which started life in the Lords, but will be moving to the House of Commons in February. A number of Scots MPs have agreed to table an amendment. They will be making the point that a clear majority of Scottish MPs voted for 16. Meanwhile Euan Sutherland, the 17 year old who, with Stonewall's support, is challenging the unequal age of consent of 18 in the European Court, has just heard that his case will be "communicated" to the government who will be asked to justify the continuing inequality in the treatment of gay men, and in particular, why our law uniquely criminalises the young men it is meant to protect. It seems likely that Euan's case will now be used to test these issues and that the case of Ralph Wilde, Hugo Greenhalgh and Will Parry will not be referred as they are all now over 18. Euan was recently "queer-bashed", a horrible reminder of the consequences of discrimination. ... BUT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE We all want an equal age of consent, but that is only part of the picture. We also want a complete review of sexual offences law, a ban on discrimination, full recognition for lesbian and gay relationships, and an equal right to parent. To help agree an agenda for reform, we have begun a process of consultation on the wider issues of law reform. The aim is to agree a programme for law reform to give us full civil rights and to build a coalition of support for such reform both within and beyond the lesbian and gay communities. We organised an initial seminar on sexual offences law reform in October, and in March we will be producing a consultation paper on the ideas that came out of that seminar. We will argue that the function of the criminal law is not the policing of morality but the protection of the individual. Sexual offences law should treat women and men equally and should not discriminate between heterosexuals and homosexuals. So not only should there be an equal age of consent, but the offences of gross indecency and soliciting should be repealed. We hope the proposals will form the basis of a campaign to get any incoming government to introduce a new Sexual Offences Bill. The second series of consultation - on proposals for the SOD bill - is now underway. We hope to publish the revised proposals in a new pamphlet, The Case for Equality, in March, which will include the results of our discrimination at work survey. Later in the year we also propose to review and consult on the need for law reform to recognise lesbian and gay relationships, and equal parenting rights. NEWS IN BRIEF Stonewall Lecture On 8 December the Iris Trust with the Bar Lesbian and Gay Group (BLAGG) co-sponsored the first Stonewall Lecture. Entitled "The Time Has Come", it was delivered by Martin Bowley QC - the first out gay QC. In 1985 he was vetted for possible judicial promotion, but was refused on the grounds of his sexuality. He recently campaigned successfully for a sexual orientation clause in the Bar's anti-discrimination rules. The lecture, described by the Chair of the Bar Council as a "powerful and moving plea for equality" was a fascinating account of the age of consent debate and an urgent plea for full civil rights. Copies are available from Bar Council, Equal Opportunities Unit, 3 Bedford Row, London WC1 4DB. Survey updates We have had an overwhelming response to our survey on homophobic violence and harassment. Over 3,000 surveys have been returned, which will make it by far the largest survey on homophobic violence. Many included horrifying accounts of violent attacks. The next stage will be follow-up interviews with a small sample of those who responded. This will take some months and we plan to publish the resuls by June or so. Meanwhile we have had over 500 replies to our survey of the top 3,000 employers. We are about to chase up the High Street names among the non-responders. We plan to publish the results in March. New Faces Two new faces join the staff team: Emma Peskin, formerly research assistant to Neil Kinnock and the late John Smith, joins us as Research Assistant. Mark Roche is leaving the BBC to join us as Administrator. WORK IT OUT: EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS Accountants Ian Johnson works for Ernst & Young, one of the top six accountancy firms. They recently issued a new equal opportunities policy which did not mention sexuality. Ian took a very deep breath and complained. He got a favourable response and now hopes the policy will be changed as a result. He would now like to set up a group for lesbians and gay men in accountancy, both as a social group and to campaign for improved attitudes and policies within the profession. An initial meeting will be held at 7pm on 21 February at Stonewall - all welcome. Banking on Equality Lesbians and gay men in banking, building societies and insurance are thinking of setting up a new group for social and campaigning purposes. There is already a lesbian and gay network within BIFU, the Banking, Insurance and Finance Union, and another at MSF (LAGIM); the new group would be open to members of both unions and to people who are not members of a union. A meeting is planned for late March. Call Stonewall and leave your name and number if you are interested. Rank Outsiders helpline Rank Outsiders have set up a telephone helpline one night a week for lesbians and gay men in the armed forces. The helpline, tel 071 799 2200, is staffed on Wednesday evenings between 7pm and 9pm. Outside those hours, messages are picked up regularly and returned. Gay Times page Anya Palmer of Stonewall now writes a monthly page in Gay Times on workplace issues. There may be some overlap between items in this newsletter and Gay Times, but the Gay Times page is monthly so don't miss it. PENSIONS CAMPAIGN The government has introduced major new legislation on pensions, designed to protect contributors to pension schemes and to deal with discrimination by raising the women's retirement age to 65! For us it will be a chance to campaign for equal benefits for equal contributions. The situation is complicated. Public sector superannuation schemes such as those for teachers, civil servants and local government workers are controlled by parliamentary regulations, which do not at present allow for a widow's pension to go to a partner of the same sex. In other occupational schemes it depends upon the rules of the scheme. Some allow same sex partners to receive a dependant's pension; others don't. The Inland Revenue are also involved, as pension contributions attract tax relief. Their definition of dependants is based on financial dependency, which they interpret as meaning actual financial dependence rather than the shared financial arrangements which are characteristic of most households. However, some non-discriminatory schemes such as the THT's have received Inland Revenue approval. We now need a two pronged approach. On the one hand we need to convince as many schemes as possible to adopt policies in favour of lesbian and gay partners. If you run into difficulties you can consult the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service, 11 Belgrave Road, London SW1V 1RB, 071 233 8080, who are very knowledgeable and helpful. On the legal front we need to try and amend the Pensions Bill to guarantee that everybody, regardless of their marital status or sexual orientation, can nominate their partner to benefit from their pension scheme. We are setting up a working group on pensions to try and coordinate this work. Please call or drop us a line if you are interested. BA VICTORY ON FREE TRAVEL Congratulations to FlagFlyers, the group for lesbians and gay men in civil aviation transport. British Airways recently changed their staff travel scheme to allow equal concessions to same sex partners following a long campaign. FlagFlyers are very pleased with this outcome and will continue to campaign to get BA to include sexual orientation in its equal opportunities policy. Lesbian and gay railway workers, meanwhile, have the opposite problem. They have the words "sexual orientation" in their equal opportunities policy - but no free travel for their partners, although heterosexual employees can get free travel for their partner and however many children as they have. Equal opportunities, but not equal pay it seems. European Passenger Services, who operate passenger services to Paris, are now reviewing their policy following a number of complaints from staff. They say in their defence that they take great care to be non-discriminatory in all aspects of employment. Let's hope they understand that non-discrimination includes equal pay. A decision is expected in the next few months, and they have promised to let us know what they decide. We in turn will keep you, the customers, up to date. NEW LAW ON HARASSMENT Much has been written about the ill effects of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. One provision that could be used to benefit lesbians and gay men is the new offence of "intentional harassment". Originally intended to deal with racial harassment, the offence now applies to all kinds of intentional harassment. During the debate on this clause, Stonewall arranged for a question to be asked by Joan Ruddock. In response Nicholas Baker clarified that "disabled people and homosexuals should be covered by the offence, and they are." The new offence has obvious implications for people suffering homophobic harassment by neighbours or in the workplace. One personnel manager, responding to Stonewall's corporate survey, told us that senior management in her company were suddenly taking the issue of homophobic harassment very seriously now that their staff could actually be arrested for it. MoD ADMITS DATABASE Following an expose on Radio 5's Out This Week, the government has admitted for the first time that it keeps records on men and women in the armed forces who are suspected of homosexuality. The admission came in reply to a series of written questions tabled by David Clark, Labour's shadow defence secretary, following the case of an ex-Navy seaman, Max Darnell, who applied for a job at a rape crisis centre in Portsmouth. After a routine criminal record check, he was told he could not have the job. He demanded to see his criminal record, as he had no previous convictions. Only then did he learn that his record did show a "conviction", which was his dismissal from the Navy 17 years previously for being gay. According to ex-military policewoman Caroline Meagher, the register not only lists suspected gays and lesbians, it also lists their partners, ex-partners and acquaintances. If she wanted to know if someone's name had come up in a previous investigation, "You just used to phone up and give them the name you were interested in and they would give you an answer back in a matter of seconds." For further details see We Can't Even March Straight, by Ed Hall, to be published in April. We hope this book, together with legal test cases and the growing numbers of Rank Outsiders, will make the armed forces ban a major issue in the run-up to next year's Select Committee on the armed forces. NETWORKING FOR EQUALITY We believe that lesbian and gay rights are an issue for everyone, not just lesbians and gay men, and that it is absolutely vital to build a coalition of support amongst all sections of society. But we often look first to other groups who themselves experience discrimination. So we were delighted that the Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, Herman Ouseley, was a guest at the Stonewall Equality Show. We have also been to visit the Equal Opportunities Commission to discuss discrimination against lesbians and gay men, and to see representatives of the National Women's Commission, which advises the Cabinet committee on women's issues. They encouraged us to apply to become a member organisation of the Commission along with other lesbian organisations. Couples reform The government is to bring in new legislation on domestic violence to implement proposals by The Law Commission. They recommended that anyone in a "family relationship or something closely akin to such a relationship" should be able to apply for a protective injunction. This could include lesbian and gay relationships. The Law Commission is also looking at the distribution of property and the rights on unmarried partners, i.e. who gets the flat if one of you dies or you split up. If you would like to present any evidence to the Commission, either on their recommendations on domestic violence or on the division of property, write to The Law Commission, Conquest House, 37-38 John St, Theobalds Road, London WC1N 2BQ. Woman of the Year Sandi Toksvig, by popular acclaim the star of the Stonewall Equality Show, was voted Woman of the Year by readers of both the Pink Paper and Capital Gay. Elton John, the other star of the show was also voted Man of the Year by readers of Capital Gay. BLGC appeal The Black Lesbian and Gay Centre is appealing for volunteers, management committee members and supporters. Their AGM will be on 1 March at 7pm. For further details, please call Eleanor Hope on 071 732 3885, or write to her at BLGC, Arch 196, Bellenden Road, London SE15 4RF. Meeting at TUC Angela Mason, director of Stonewall, will address a meeting with lesbian and gay trade unionists on Tuesday 28 February to discuss the planned Sexual Orientation Discrimination Bill. The meeting will take place at 7pm at the TUC, 23-28 Great Russell St, London WC1. All TU members welcome. JERSEY FOLLOWS SUIT In November, Angela Mason was invited to Jersey to give a lecture and to help campaign for an equal age of consent. The invitation came from a Jersey group called 'Liberation 50', who are promoting discussions about human rights for the 50th anniversary of Jersey's liberation from German occupation. They sponsored a well-attended lecture on 'Sexuality and Human Rights'. The meeting was attended by a number of Deputies (MPs) who support an equal age of consent and by local women's groups who earlier in the year had campaigned for abortion law reform. Many lesbians and gay men also came and talked movingly about the difficulties of coming out in a small community. There was a huge public debate about the age of consent. Two propositions were before the States Assembly, one for 18 and one for 16. Deputy Gary Matthews led the fight for 16 and worked closely with Stonewall. The motion for 16 fell by 11 votes to 34; the motion for 18 passed by a large majority. But there was one crumb of comfort. After questioning from Gary Matthews the Solicitor General announced that the debate dealt only with sodomy and that for 'gross indecency' the age of consent in Jersey had always been 16! IMMIGRATION MEETING In response to the introduction of new restrictive immigration rules the Stonewall Immigration Group lobbied the Home Office along with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and Lesbian Avengers. The Home Office subsequently agreed to a meeting with Matthew Davies, one of the Immigration Group's solicitors, and Angela Mason of Stonewall. The meeting, the first with Home Office officials, revealed that a civil servant has now been allocated to work on same-sex cases in response to the number of letters and applications they are now receiving. They also agreed to study the immigration rules in Australia and New Zealand where same-sex couples are recognised for immigration purposes. They confirmed that new regulations are to be published on the treatment of unmarried heterosexual partners, which is likely to lead to renewed calls for the inclusion of lesbian and gay partners. ASYLUM PRECEDENT In a ground-breaking decision the Immigration Appeal Tribunal has ruled that lesbians and gay men facing persecution may qualify as members of a social group for the purposes of the 1951 Refugee Convention. The Tribunal said that a social group should have "a characteristic of historical immutability or a characteristic which indicates a basic human right the exercise of which a person should not be expect to forego." In Romania, it concluded, "homosexuals are a social group" on this definition. However the Romanian may yet have to leave the country. The case has now been referred back to the Home Office for an adjudicator's decision. The Daily Mail, meanwhile, has tried to suggest he was only pretending to be gay in order to gain asylum. Since this is the first time that a gay asylum case has succeeded in Britain, the man is hardly likely to have come out as a calculated move. New Lib Dem councillors pack Liberal Democrats for Lesbian and Gay Action, or DELGA, have produced an information pack for Liberal Democrat councillors wanting to know more about lesbian and gay issues. The pack sets out Liberal Democrat policies on lesbian and gay issues, plus information on issues they are likely to come across, including police liaison, equal opportunities policies, pensions, fostering and adoption, housing, and of course the notorious Section 28. Launched at a packed fringe meeting at party conference organised by DELGA and Stonewall, it was sent to 3,500 Liberal Democrat councillors in December and has been enthusiastically received. Copies are available for œ2 plus 49p postage from Liberal Democrats HQ, 4 Cowley Street, London SW1. Tory MP comes out Michael Brown has become the first openly gay Conservative MP. He was speaking at a reception where he presented Stonewall's Angela Mason with the Mike Rhodes Award for her contribution to the fight for equality. He said he hoped to see the day when no-one would be asked te question "are you gay?" but meanwhile he accepted that in his position he had "a responsibility to give inspiration to others." Martina says "If we want others to give us respect we must first be willing to give ourselves respect. We must be proud of who we are. And we cannot do that if we hide. We have to make ourselves palpable. Touchable. Real. And then we can show the world what we are all about: happy, intelligent, giving people. We can show our whole strength, our dignity and character. We can show our joy and sorrow, our heartaches and our pain. Then we can just be." - Martina Navratilova after her final match. ONE FABULOUS NIGHT The 1994 Stonewall Equality Show at the Albert Hall made œ82,000 and a little history. It was the biggest ticketed gay event ever held in the UK, featuring some of the most acclaimed international ""out" stars and some tremendous newcomers. Edinburgh drummers Sheboom opened the show and newly-out comedian Sandi Toksvig stole it. The line-up included, among others, Elton John, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, Ben Elton, Alison Moyet, Lily Savage ... literally a galaxy of stars to whom we are very grateful. This year's show is planned for Sunday 22nd October. Mark the date in your diary now. IT'S TIME TO JOIN Last year we reached our target number of Friends. A big thank you to the 2,500 people who joined Stonewall. We are especially grateful to all those (nearly half) who contribute by standing order. This gives us the security to plan our future campaigns. This year we want to double that number and aim for a membership of 5,000. We rely financially on our supporters, but more than that, only with these kinds of numbers can we have the political influence to reach MPs and opinion formers in every constituency. We hope you will play a role in helping us to achieve this: * If you are already a supporter please make a commitment today to encourage a friend of yours to join. * Pass this newsletter to a friend and ask them if they would like to be a supporter. If you need more copies, please let us know. * Don't forget to renew your subscription. You should have a reminder letter with this newsletter if it's due. * Write for one of our briefings so you can make the case for equality for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. * If you want to know more about our campaigns and would like a Stonewall speaker to address a meeting, please let us know. Together we can make the case for equality and justice for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Michael Cashman WHY I SUPPORT STONEWALL I HAVE this dream: One day, when my kids are grown up, we'll all be going through old bits of memorabilia and we'll come across some newspaper cuttings about me appearing at something called an "Equality Show". "Why did you have to do that?" the kids will ask. "Wasn't everyone equal then?" Prejudice and ignorance will be so alien to them that they will view our generation with the same curiosity that we might show for the suffragettes who threw themselves under horses. I recently had the privilege of meeting Helen Suzman, legendary South African MP and anti-apartheid campaigner. With its interim constitution uniquely enshrining our rights, it would be easy to say that everything in South Africa is fab and we can all eat Cape avocados again with a clear conscience. But she warned that human rights are always in peril, everywhere, and need constant safeguarding. Some notable battles may be won but that doesn't mean there aren't others left to fight. The same might be said of gay and lesbian rights in this country. Twenty-five years after the Stonewall riots, gays and lesbians may appear to have made great progress but we can hardly sit back and think there is nothing left to worry about. But while the tabloid press continue to hound us when we dare to put our heads above the parapet, we need organisations like Stonewall who can help put the persuasive and sensible case for equality. Lobbying for gay and lesbian equality in immigration, adoption and fostering, partnership laws and in many other areas, and for rights straight people take for granted, needs to be effectively organised. I believe it is important not just for the gay community, but for everyone. No society is truly free while any section of it remains oppressed. I want what every parent wants for their child; a society where they can grow up free to be who they please and equal with everyone around them. My kids are growing up fast. Let's get on with it. Sandi Toksvig JUST œ5 A MONTH CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE At Stonewall we recognise that our work is long term, that it will take vigilance, determination, and patience to fight homophobia and win equal rights. We intend being around for many years to come, offering an effective, professional response to attacks on our rights and helping to build a movement for change. No organisation can plan for the future without being able to rely on regular income. We hope our supporters across the UK will recognise this and commit themselves to give œ5 a month - less for those who can afford less, more for those who can afford more. You can join Stonewall for as little as œ20 a year or œ10 if you are unwaged. You can pay by standing order or by cheque, but standing orders cut our administration costs and ensure your money goes straight into campaigning. Please, fill in this form today. STONEWALL 2 Greycoat Place London SW1P 1SB Tel 0171 222 9007 Fax 0171 222 0525 Email Stonewall.org.uk STONEWALL STAFF Angela Mason Executive Director Anya Palmer Deputy Director Emma Peskin Research Assistant Terry Harding Fundraising and Development Mig Kimpton Events Producer Suad El-Amin Office Manager Mark Roche Administrator OFFICE VOLUNTEERS Jim Kilkenny Information Mark Watson Immigration STONEWALL BOARD Gill Butler Michael Cashman, Chair Lee Marshall, Treasurer Rebecca Rendle Dr Peter Rivas Elaine Willis, Vice Chair STONEWALL GROUP Board members, plus: Marc Burke Cordelia Ditton Andy Elvers Simon Fanshawe Ceri Hutton Sir Ian McKellen