Four openly gay or lbian new MPs elected to Ottawa | Xtra Magaze

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• FOUR OPENLY GAY OR LBIAN NEW MPS ELECTED TO OTTAWA
• CANADA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MP READY TO TAKE ON UNTRY'S TWO MAJOR 'CRISIS' POTS

FOUR OPENLY GAY OR LBIAN NEW MPS ELECTED TO OTTAWA

'Canadians are hurtg': Poilievre says he'll fight for the workg class first uc speechAnalysisIn Poilievre, Liberals face a lear who gets unr his opponents' skWh Poilievre's victory, some Liberal MPs hope party will pivot to the centreOntar MP Eric Dunn, a gay man, will serve as Poilievre's party-uc liaison, a posn he also held when O'Toole was the party will be Dunn's job to act as a go-between, nnectg MPs and senators wh party, who reprents the eastern Ontar ridg of Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, was a popular surrogate the last electn, routely stumpg for would-be Conservative MPs other areas of the Pl-H will be the Quebec litenant, a reward of sorts for backg Poilievre's bid while a number of other proment Tori om the provce supported former Quebec premier Jean Bnswick MP Jake Stewart, one of only a handful of Conservative MPs om Atlantic Canada, will serve as the "uc mtee -ordator, " a new posn. Secretly, he'd always hoped to publicly announce he was gay.

But 30 years ago when the then-NDP MP for Burnaby-Kgsway beme the first MP to e out as gay, Canada was battlg the HIV/AIDS crisis.

CANADA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MP READY TO TAKE ON UNTRY'S TWO MAJOR 'CRISIS' POTS

Fear of the disease, upled wh longstandg social stereotyp, meant homophobia was rampant. They say 's bee of Robson and others like him that they're able to do their they also say they ntue to face hatred and threats, and there is still work to be done to fight 's a short vio of the broadst news segment that aired at the time:MP Svend Robson out as gay, 1988Former B.

MP Svend Robson was the first MP Canada to publicly clare he was gayRobson was re-elected six months after he me out.

29, 1988, and told her he was gay.