The BNP’s politics of homophobia

• The Armed People — The Ultimate protection against invasion or tyranny states that the 1996 Dunblane massacre of 16 school children and a teacher was carried out by ‘a homosexual paedophile’ (BNP General Election Manifesto 2005)

• It calls Sexual Orientation Regulations ‘a charter for gay rights activists…to threaten, persecute, intimidate, silence and maliciously sue…moral minded people who do not view the practice of homosexuality as a legitimate and equal way of life’. (BNP Website 2007)

•l The BNP website states its view on homosexuality: ‘the BNP is not blinded or cowed by political correctness and recognizes that homosexuality, which affects less than 2% of the population, is not the norm and that homosexual relationships do not produce offspring — essential to the survival of a people and a nation.’

• On the nail-bomb attack in Soho: ‘Dozens of “gay” demonstrators flaunting their perversion in front of the world’s journalist showed why so many people find these creatures so repulsive’ (Nick Griffin — Spearhead June 1999)

• The BNP openly target lesbian, gay and bisexual people: ‘We promise to bring back legislation forbidding homosexual acts — thus driving these revolting practices back into the closet where they belong.’ (BNP General Election manifesto 1997)

• The BNP on AIDS: ‘Nature is at last taking revenge against the nauseating proliferation of homosexuality’ (Spearhead July 1983)

• Banning the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ — ‘Homosexuality is wrong… We believe that the promotion of homosexuality should be banned not just in schools but also in the mass media’ (Identity — the BNPs ‘Official Monthly magazine)

•‘We believe that young boys should be protected from the attentions of older perverts by returning the age of consent for homosexual sex to 21.’ (Identity)

•‘This does not mean that we want to persecute individual homosexuals…but neither are we willing to grant them the “right” to flaunt their deviancy and to try to win new recruits to their sad, disease-ridden lifestyle.’ (Identity)