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Once gay ndidat were monised – or forced to hi the closet. Now Wtmster boasts 32 LGB MPs, more than any other untry. But, as gay policians past and prent nfirm, the battle is not over yet

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KEIR MATHER: LABOUR’S OUT GAY WNER OF SELBY AND ASTY BY-ELECTN IS YOUNGT MP PARLIAMENT

Openly gay Labour ndidate Keir Mather has bee the youngt MP parliament after he won the Selby and Asty by-electn. * current gay mps *

Keir Mather has bee the youngt MP parliament and the latt gay man elected to Wtmster. Out gay Labour polician Keir Mather has bee the youngt MP parliament after he stormed to victory the Selby and Asty by-electn. Who is Keir Mather, Labour’s newt out gay MP?

Keir Mather is parliament’s newt out gay MP. In 2018, he garnered a mentn his stunt newspaper when he grilled Rsia’s ambassador to the UK on the torture and murr of gay men Chechnya.

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

Levels of LGBT+ reprentatn the UK parliament - wh more gay Conservative MPs than out Labour MPs followg the general electn. * current gay mps *

“Ambassador, I’m a gay man. 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.

In the UK there are currently 45 openly gay members the 650-member Hoe of Commons, or 7 percent. Natnal now has 35 members Parliament, none of which are openly gay. Openly gay Labour MPs clu newly-elected Wellgton list MP Ayha Verrall and Northte MP Shanan Halbert.

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

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In 2009, Parliament named one of s 11 select mtee meetg rooms 'Rabow Room', dited to gay, lbian, and transgenr New Zealanrs.

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

Lord Chris Smh beme the UK's first openly gay MP 1984. * current gay 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.

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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY MP SAYS G OUT 1980S WAS ‘ONE OF THE SRIT MOMENTS OF MY LIFE’

Sexual harassment of women Wtmster has been the headl for years. Now gay men are speakg out too. * current gay mps *

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? How did a untry raised on tabloid sndal end up so at ease wh gay public figur?

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