Homosexualy was illegal and gay role mols non-existent when Michael Yabsley was growg up, and wasn’t until a health sre 2019 that he embraced his te self. Now, the former Liberal Party powerbroker wants to show others ’s never too late for a life-alterg reckong." name="scriptn
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- ‘IT’S PART OF WHO I AM’: THE GAY LIBERAL MPS FOR WHOM THE POLIL IS MORE THAN PERSONAL
- JAGUARS NFL ACH OUT AS GAY US SPORTS FIRST
‘IT’S PART OF WHO I AM’: THE GAY LIBERAL MPS FOR WHOM THE POLIL IS MORE THAN PERSONAL
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The leathery-lookg ducements are havg a limed effect on the whimperg ball of curls, a signer dog bred for the subject we’re about to discs – g out as a gay man at 64 – nerv would be unrstandable, pecially after four s of a picture-perfect, very public heterosexual marriage and a reer voted to nservative polics. “I have always been gay, not bisexual; that’s not a term I intify wh, ” says Yabsley, who is now 65.
Yet for many men of Yabsley’s generatn, homosexualy was still illegal durg their teens and 20s. Gay sex remaed a crime Tasmania up until 1994, when Pl Keatg’s feral Labor ernment passed the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, uniformly crimalisg nsensual gay sex throughout nservative polil circl Atralia, there is still only a handful of men who openly intify as acceptance has grown as Yabsley has aged, but gay and lbian people public life, let alone the nservative bastns of bs and polics, are still relatively rare.
JAGUARS NFL ACH OUT AS GAY US SPORTS FIRST
The first outwardly gay polician eher feral or state parliament was former senator and Greens lear Bob Brown, a GP who clared his illegal, same-sex relatnship a newspaper terview 1976, years before enterg Tasmania’s state parliament half a century later, nservative polil circl Atralia, there is still only a handful of men who openly intify as gay, the most high-profile beg North Sydney feral Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman, feral Liberal member for Brisbane Trevor Evans and former Human Rights Commissner and Liberal member for Goldste, Tim Wilson. “In that era, to be gay meant that you uldn’t have that...