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
Contents:
- HOW STLAND BEME THE WORLD LEAR ON LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
- THE UK’S PARLIAMENT IS STILL THE GAYT THE WORLD AFTER 2019 ELECTN
- THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
HOW STLAND BEME THE WORLD LEAR ON LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
Levels of LGBT+ reprentatn the UK parliament - wh more gay Conservative MPs than out Labour MPs followg the general electn. * scottish gay politicians *
"I get more abe for beg a Tory Stland than I do for beg a gay woman, " says Annie Wells, one of a batch of new MSPs voted at the electn this month that has ma the untry's parliament the most proportnally gay-iendly on step up to a seat Holyrood has brought the total number of openly gay, lbian and bisexual policians to ten, 7% of all MSPs. You wouldn't be openly gay , " she new MSP for Glasgow also adms that her party's passn for LGBT rights uld be better. "We need to make more of showg that regardls of your genr, or if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, trans, that everyone's wele.
THE UK’S PARLIAMENT IS STILL THE GAYT THE WORLD AFTER 2019 ELECTN
Davidson is one of four openly-gay party lears Stland. FOLLOWING Holyrood’s historic cisn this month to pass the Equal Marriage Act, Stland on Sunday has drawn up the Pk Stland List markg the ntributn ma by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people to the cultural, polil and public life of the such list is subjective, but we have chosen people who are makg an impact through excellence their own profsns and/or by virtue of their mpaigng on LGBT issu.
THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
3 DEREK OGG QCAdvoteOne of the untry’s top legal mds, Derek Ogg was at the foreont of the mpaign to legalise homosexualy Stland the 1970s. He me out as gay after separatg om his wife earlier this year. CLAIRE BLACK Newspaper lumnist, Stland on SundayStland’s first openly gay newspaper lumnist, Black wr on social issu and popular culture and is a powerful voice on genr, sexualy and domtic vlence.
SCOTT RENNIE Church of Stland misterWhen Rennie was appoted to Queen’s Cross Church Aberen 2009, he beme the Kirk’s first actively gay mister charge of a ngregatn, a move which igned an tense row over homosexual clergy. Last year, the General Assembly voted to allow ngregatns the right to accept actively-gay misters.