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Contents:
- 118TH CONGRS BREAKS RERD FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
- MREEN COLQUHOUN – FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN PARLIAMENT
118TH CONGRS BREAKS RERD FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
Thirteen votg members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual – the hight number of openly LGB members history. * gay members of federal parliament *
as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex, queer or wh another mory sexual.
At the time, homosexualy was still crimalised Tasmania.
homosexual acts had been abolished Atralia, but long jail sentenc and. barrier, that you n be gay and even be a member of the Atralian Parliament. I am the natn’s first openly-gay.
MREEN COLQUHOUN – FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN PARLIAMENT
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Women's rights activist and former Labour Member of Parliament, LSE alumna Mreen Colquhoun beme the first openly gay woman to serve Parliament. * gay members of federal parliament *
He also played a role issug an apology to former ernment workers affected by the gay purge. Dunn beme the unofficial LGBTQ2S+ spokperson for the Conservative Party after his w 2019 as the only openly-gay Tory uc. He’s bt known for his lls to end the blood ban agast queer men and trans women; November 2020, he ma headl when he asked Mister of Health Patty Hajdu if she would accept a donatn of his blood as an openly gay man.
That fight, he told Xtra April, is a personal one—he uldn’t donate blood as a closeted gay teen whout outg himself. – who 2013 beme the first openly gay U. Thirteen votg members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual – the hight number of openly LGB members history.
Two senators and 11 members of the Hoe of Reprentativ intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center analysis of lawmakers’ official bgraphi, mpaign webs and news reports. In the 112th Congrs of 2011-13, jt four members – all reprentativ – intified as gay or lbian (and none as bisexual), acrdg to data om the Victory Fund, a polil actn mtee that works to elect LGBTQ policians. Data on the share of Amerins who are gay, lbian or bisexual om Gallup.