ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to show how making rights work for gay people is more than a simple matter of removing existing legal discrimination - it is also a matter of getting rights right. It describes the existing legal discrimination affecting gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the UK. The chapter considers the problems posed for the attainment of ‘gay rights’ by the manner and form of expression of goals and strategies. The Employment Protection Act 1978 gives employees the right to challenge their unfair dismissal if they have been in the job for at least two years. The legal advantage of opting for the route to motherhood is that the donor has neither ‘parental responsibility’ nor any rights for the purposes of the Children Act 1989. The supporters of the Bill went on to make plain what kind of immodesty and lack of restraint might jeopardize support for gay rights.
