Petition Give LGBT people the same equality rights and protection as racial minorities.

I think that the British LGBT communities are not fairly protected as other minority groups. Therefore, I beg you to help me get a change in the law to give the LGBT community more equal rights and legal protection. This needs to be a nationwide change for the whole of Britain.

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In a British school a pupil could risk expulsion for one instance of racial abuse but homophobic bullying over a long period of time might only receive a stern talking to. This is the same in the legal world, and in employment. How is this acceptable ?

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106 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 106 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 24 January 2016
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