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Incoming DUP leader Edwin Poots says LGBTQ+ people will be treated same as anyone, but history of anti-gay policies suggests otherwise

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GBTMSM donating blood in Northern Ireland. Speaking to the BBC at the time, he said: “I think that people who engage in high risk sexual behaviour in general should be excluded from giving blood… And so someone who has sex with somebody in Africa or sex with prostitutes, I am very reluctant about those people being able to give blood.”The following year, in 2013, the UK Supreme Court rejected an attempt by Poots to challenge an Appeal Court that allowed LGBTQ+ parents to adopt children in Northern Ireland.

At the time, the director of LGBTQ+ group Rainbow Project stated, “Enough public money has been spent on this fool’s errand.

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