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Contents:

• THE UK’S PARLIAMENT IS STILL THE GAYT THE WORLD AFTER 2019 ELECTN
• THE GLAMOUR BOYS: GAY MPS WHO GAVE EARLY WARNG OF NAZI THREAT
• THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• GAY MPS: THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT SHOWS WTMSTER'S ATTU TOWARDS LGBT POLICIANS IS CHANGG

THE UK’S PARLIAMENT IS STILL THE GAYT THE WORLD AFTER 2019 ELECTN

Levels of gay, bi and lbian reprentatn the UK parliament have remaed stable at the electn after a Tory surge. The Sttish Natnal Party now has the hight proportn of gay, bi and lbian reprentatn of any party parliament, at 21 per cent, while 5.

“I do believe when you see somethg that is clearly wrong and mak another human beg feel exclud you should stand shoulr to shoulr wh them, ” he wrote two years ago a Liverpool matchday programme about his support for gay, to the dismay of many of his admirers, Henrson is on the verge of a move to Al-Ettifaq, a club Sdi Arabia, a untry which homosexualy is banned, and which gay men have been behead. “They execute people over there for beg gay.

In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Bra, homosexualy was an illic act, and would rema that way until 1967 when the law changed England and Wal. Even though gay culture was vibrant, existed mostly unrground, s muny forced to socialise wh a certa gree of vertns orr to avoid exposure and the risk of prison. The German pal was also a hotbed of hedonism where sexual eedoms and gay culture flourished, and where excg new forms of mic and dance ntributed to the febrile atmosphere.

THE GLAMOUR BOYS: GAY MPS WHO GAVE EARLY WARNG OF NAZI THREAT

On viss to this liberal metropolis durg that perd, a small group of young Brish Conservative Party MPs – which clud figur such as Ronald Cartland, Anthony Muirhead and Robert Bernays – began to wns the growg persecutn of certa groups Germany, cludg homosexuals and Jews. Yet, spe the risk of exposg their own homosexualy at a time when was illegal, the Glamour Boys brought their ncerns to parliament throughout the 1930s. A crackdown on gay culture Germany saw the tament of homosexuals, alongsi police raids on popular bars and nightclubs.

Only legalised England and Wal 1967, homosexualy remaed taboo the s that followed.

THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE

Siarly, gay wartime breaker Alan Turg was only granted a posthumo royal pardon 2013 for his nvictn for gross cency 1952, which rulted his btal chemil stratn. In a time when homosexualy was prohibed, this group of young gay MPs risked their liberty – and later their liv – the pursu of social and polil jtice. Yet a new book has claimed that a group of gay MPs were among the first to warn Bra about the danger Hler posed.

Four of them later died extraordary untold story of gay and bisexual Brish policians and their bravery the send world war has been unearthed by Chris Bryant, Labour MP for Rhondda. ’ Photograph: Phil WarrenBut the treatment of Jews and the assassatn of homosexuals Hler’s purge of polil opponents the Night of the Long Kniv 1934 propelled the so-lled Glamour Boys to vehemently oppose what they wnsed takg place. “And this hidn history matters bee, for centuri, homosexual men have been portrayed as hedonistic, effemate, limp-wristed, uldn’t tch a ball and that sort of thg.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

”Homosexualy Bra remaed illegal until 1967, and the men lived their liv practised subterfuge: fflg bedsheets a send bedroom to pretend their lover had slept there, changg pronouns om him to her and he to she to talk about their partners. “By fn, gay men’s private liv om the 1930s weren’t much documented – fai nveniently left them out or got rid of their diari and so on.

Jack Maamara’s brother, for stance, who was a famo RAF man his own right, refed to her om Jack when he died [as an officer Italy 1944] bee Jack was gay.

At the time, we had the most strict laws we’ve ever had on homosexualy, and dozens and dozens of people were beg arrted all the time and gog to prison. ”By the end of the , Berl’s sexual liberatn seemed all but over as gay men were sent to ncentratn mps. Stephen Twigg was gay – a “practisg homosexual”, to e a formula still popular at the time – and though mours about Michael Portillo’s sexualy had been swirlg for years, he was most fely not.

GAY MPS: THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT SHOWS WTMSTER'S ATTU TOWARDS LGBT POLICIANS IS CHANGG

The day after Twigg’s victory, Chris Smh, an MP sce 1983 and out sce 1984, beme the first openly gay secretary of state – culture, naturally. The years rolled by and anti-gay legislatn was rolled back.

Now Bra fds self wh the queert legislature the world: 32 of the Uned Kgdom’s 650 MPs llg themselv gay, lbian or bisexual.

And two nstuenci last week – Lanster & Fleetwood and Milton Keyn South – both the Tory and Labour ndidat were gay, lbian or bisexual. Proportnally, though, the SNP is now by far the gayt party Wtmster, wh 12% of s MPs chalkg themselv up as sexual may scratch our heads as to the meang of the numbers: is a surprise that there are so many out Tori?