AGM

APPG LGBT+ Holds Annual General Meeting for 2021 & Joint event with Queer Britain and the History of Parliament Trust

Christ Bryant MP, Baroness Barker, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Crispin Blunt MP as part of the Queer Britain event Chris Bryant MP in conversation with The Baroness Barker, Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Rights, about Chris's fascinating new book, The Glamour Boys, The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler. 

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT+ Rights held its AGM for the year 2021 on 24 February, followed by a joint event with Queer Britain and the History of Parliament Trust, opened by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport the Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP to mark LGBT History Month.

The minutes for the meeting are published here, and the video of the discussion is available here.

The Officers elected for 2021 are below:

Chair

Crispin Blunt MP (Conservative)

Deputy Chairs

Baroness Barker (Liberal Democrat)

Dame Angela Eagle MP (Labour)

Elliot Colburn MP (Conservative)

John Nicolson MP (SNP)

Secretary

David Mundell MP (Conservative)


Treasurer


Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour)


Vice-Chairs


Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green (Crossbench)

Lord Black of Brentwood (Conservative)

Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Labour)

Lord Gilbert of Panteg (Conservative)

Lord Smith of Finsbury (Non-affiliated)

Lord Herbert of South Downs (Conservative)

Lord Cashman (Non-affiliated)

Peter Gibson MP (Conservative)

Stewart M McDonald MP (SNP)

Stephen Doughty MP (Labour)

Conor Burns MP (Conservative)

Hannah Bardell MP (SNP)

Chris Bryant MP (Labour)

Maria Miller MP (Conservative)

This information is also published on the Register of APPGs, which is updated every 6 weeks.

We look forward to continue to work together for LGBT+ equality in the UK and abroad in 2021.

APPG LGBT+ re-established with Crispin Blunt MP as new chair

Today the APPG on Global LGBT+ Rights held its inaugural meeting, re-establishing the group and electing Crispin Blunt MP as Chair. Stewart McDonald MP, Peter Kyle MP (not pictured), Lord Collins, Lord Cashman and Baroness Barker were re-elected as Officers.

APPG Officers Jan 2020.jpeg

We are looking forward to a busy year advancing LGBT+ rights at home and abroad!

You can find minutes to this meeting and previous AGMs here.