A wheel of fortune? Most of the British election news in this article comes from a single source- the website of the British gay men's magazine Attitude, which has scooped most of the others when it comes to reporting on LGBT sections within election manifestos. I was somewhat surprised to see that British political parties still produce election manifestos. In New Zealand, these have largely been superceded by more flexible policy releases and media releases from party websites at election time, or at particularly strategic intervals during the parliamentary term. In the United Kingdom, they are still both printed and published online. Over the course of the last fortnight, most of the major UK political parties have produced manifestos in any case, and most of them have LGBT sections. First, the British Labour Party. Labour promises to introduce a compulsory physical, health and sexuality education curriculum across age groups within all schools. It has also promised to strengthen hate crime provisions against anti-disability, homophobic and transphobic violence. It has also promised tougher anti-homophobia laws at home and concerted action against homophobic and transphobic regimes abroad through the Foreign Office. Finally, it also intends to introduce an international LGBT rights envoy- former Member of the European Parliament Sir Michael Cashman. The Conservative Party have stopped short of introducing a comprehensive policy against homophobic, transphobic and other forms of identity-based school bullying, although it has funded individual inclusive anti-bullying projects during the term of the current Cameron administration. However, Labour and some LGBT activists have criticised this project funding approach as fragmented and uneven, meaning that some LGBT children and adolescents are protected against homophobic/transphobic bullying, while others are not. It has noted the Cameron administration backed marriage equality, as well as its posthumous pardon of Alan Turing, the British World War II gay master cryptographer and has also promised an historic offences deletion bill. The British Greens have only a single parliamentary MP- Caroline Lucas, MP for South England's gay mecca, Brighton. However, much like the New Zealand Greens, they have an admirably comprehensive set of LGBT policies in their manifesto. Pension and inheritance inequality are one of the remaining residual inequalities in relationship law and policy, which needs to be remedied. It may also further reduce the waiting period for altruistic gay male blood donation from the single year that is currently the case in England, Wales, Scotland (and New Zealand). Like the Conservatives, it supports an historic offences deletion bill, while like Labour, it also favours comprehensive and inclusive antibullying legislation, comprehensive physical, health and sexuality education reforms, improved responses against homophobic and transphobic violence, ending National health Service cuts that have reduced the quality and scope of UK HIV prevention services, and ending homophobic and transphobic discrimination and persecution abroad. Given the relative decline in Labour and Conservative voter shares, it will be interesting to see if the UK Greens benefit. The Liberal Democrats policies are much the same as those cited above by Labour, the Conservatives and Greens. They also favour comprehensive and inclusive antibullying policies, inclusive pension and inheritance reform, blood and organ donation reform if evidence-based science warrants it, supports an historic offences deletion bill, tougher action against homophobic and transphobic violence and ending homophobic and transphobic discrimination abroad. It will also introduce an option for secular humanist wedding celebrants and ban antigay and racist football chants. Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, reaffirms support for existing Welsh comprehensive and inclusive school anti-bullying reforms, with a particular focus on policy enforcement. It also promises tougher action against homophobic and transphobic violence, and the establishment of a Welsh Gender Centre and primary care framework for Welsh transgender and intersex people. Finally, it reiterates greater international pressure against homophobic and transphobic regimes. Last and definitely least in this section, the far right United Kingdom Independence Party has said that it opposes the introduction of a comprehensive health, physical and sexuality education curriculum because it would allegedly 'encourage' teenage 'sexual experimentation.' Proof, please. Or is that UKIP's fundamentalist contingent dictating policy without corroborative evidence? The HIV prevention lobby has also stated its policy preferences. Like the Labour, Green and Liberal Democrat party manifestos, the Terrence Higgins Trust and National AIDS Trust favour a comprehensive and inclusive physical, health and sexuality education curriculum, as well as a renewed focus on HIV/AIDS as a national health priority through increased testing options and greater accessibility and information provision. Recommended: Conservative Party LGBT manifesto: http://www.attitude.co.uk/conservatives-the-lgbt-manifesto/ Labour Party LGBT manifesto: http://www.attitude.co.uk/labour-the-lgbt- manifesto/ Green Party of England and Wales LGBT manifesto: http://www.attitude.co.uk/green-party-the-lgbt- manifesto/ Liberal Democrat LGBT manifesto: http://www.attitude.co.uk/liberal-democrats-the-lgbt-manifesto/ Plaid Cymru LGBT manifesto: http://www.attitude.co.uk/plaid-cymru-the-lgbt- manifesto/ "HIV organisations issue their demands of future government" Attitude: 15.04.2015: http://www.attitude.co.uk/hiv-organisations-issue-their-demands-of-future government/ "UKIP manifesto opposes teaching about gay relationships in primary schools" Pinknews: 15.04.2015: http: //www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/04/15/ukip-manifesto-opposes-teaching-about-gay-relationships-in-primary-schools/ Craig Young - 17th April 2015