> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Gscene LGBTQ Election hustings: the candidates respond.
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/gscene-lgbtq-election-hustings-the-candidates-respond-2/
- Published: 2019-11-19T13:00:39.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-18T12:28:27.000Z
- Description: Ahead of the UK General Election we are hosting an LGBTQ Election hustings on November 27th. The G-Scene News Team has written to all candidates, in all three Brighton & Hove constituencies, asking them all the same question.
- Author: Scene Editorial Team

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ge-1-600w-2.jpg)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/www-gscene-com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ge-1-600w-2.jpg)

Ahead of the UK General Election we are hosting an **LGBTQ Election hustings** on November 27th. The G-Scene News Team has written to all candidates, in all three Brighton & Hove constituencies, asking them all the same question.

We shall share their answers with you as we get them over the following days

**Today we hear from Caroline Lucas from The Green Party standing in Brighton Pavilion**

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/img_0854.jpg)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/www-gscene-com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/img%5F0854.jpg)

**”What do you see as the challenges faced by our LGBTQ+ communities in Brighton&Hove, and how would you address them in Parliament if we elect you to represent us?”**

If I am re-elected to represent you as MP for Brighton Pavilion, I will keep doing all I can to champion LGBTQ+ rights at home and abroad.

In Parliament, I’m proud to have been a leading voice in the campaign for inclusive mandatory sex and relationship education, and it will continue to be a priority for me. I will stand unequivocally against outrageous bullying and harassment outside primary schools.

I will work for an end to blanket restrictions on men who have sex with men donating blood – we need to switch to individual risk assessment, and I will continue campaigning for all who need it to have access to the HIV prevention drug PrEP.

I believe so called ‘disregards and pardons’ should be extended with any gay ‘offences’ not currently included added – and that men prosecuted under previous discriminatory laws should be compensated. I will continue to defend and advance trans rights, including privacy, legal affirmation of gender identity by a process of statutory self-declaration, and access to timely appropriate treatment. I will stand for Trans Pride, and against exclusion and discrimination, including speaking out in the media when equality and human rights are attacked or undermined.

I will champion respect for LGBTQ+ human rights in any future trade deals and continue to demand that LGBTQ+ refugees who flee persecution be protected by the Government, as well as an end to the detention and deportation of LGBTQ+ people who seek asylum.

Locally, I will continue working with the LGBTQ+ community on equality of access to services in particular, and to tackle hate crime. In short, if re-elected as MP for Brighton Pavilion, I will keep advocating for and celebrating LGBTQ+ rights at every opportunity. My door will always be open to my LGBTQ+ constituents and I will stand #Proud.

**The GScene LGBTQ+ Election Hustings. Wednesday 27th November 7 – 9pm. Dorset Gardens Methodist Church. All Welcome**

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lgbtqi-hustings-dorset-gardens-methodist-church-main-hall600w.jpg)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/www-gscene-com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lgbtqi-hustings-dorset-gardens-methodist-church-main-hall600w.jpg)