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:
- KEIR MATHER: LABOUR’S OUT GAY WNER OF SELBY AND ASTY BY-ELECTN IS YOUNGT MP PARLIAMENT
- KEIR MATHER: PUBLICLY GAY LABOUR MP NEW ‘BABY OF THE HOE’ AFTER BY-ELECTN W
- TRAILBLAZG GAY LABOUR MP BEN BRADSHAW STEPPG DOWN AFTER 25 YEARS: ‘THE TIME FEELS RIGHT’
- I NOW FEEL LS SAFE AS A GAY MAN - MP CHRIS BRYANT
- GAY LABOUR MP CHRIS BRYANT FEELS ‘PHYSILLY LS SAFE’ THAN 30 YEARS AGO, BLAM ‘TORY CULTURE WARS’
- THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
- 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
- RSIAN GAYS ELU POLICE FOR FIRST LM PROTT
- RSIAN POLICE CHASE AWAY ANTI-GAY CSAR OM LABOR DAY PRI MARCH
- KEIR MATHER: PUBLICLY GAY LABOUR MP NEW ‘BABY OF THE HOE’ AFTER BY-ELECTN W
- GAY AND TRANS RIGHTS ISSU DIVI BOTH TORI AND LABOUR
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. * gay labour mp *
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.
KEIR MATHER: PUBLICLY GAY LABOUR MP NEW ‘BABY OF THE HOE’ AFTER BY-ELECTN W
Labour MP Chris Bryant has said he feels "physilly ls safe" as a gay man than he did 30 years ago, blamg "Tory culture wars". * gay labour mp *
“Ambassador, I’m a gay man.
Who is new gay Labour MP Keir Mather? Back 2018, Mather spoke about his inty as a gay man when he challenged Rsian ambassador Alexanr Yakovenko over the torture and murr of gay men Chechnya. The ambassador was forced to fend the natn’s rerd, and clared: “It’s difficult to say if there are any gay people Chechnya.
Bradshaw, the gay floppy-haired MP for Exeter, has reprented the southwt England cy for the past 25 years. Gay Labour MP felt like ‘luckit person alive’ to reprent Exeter. Proudly open throughout his first electn 1997, Ben Bradshaw beme only the send out gay man Bra to be elected an MP on the first try.
TRAILBLAZG GAY LABOUR MP BEN BRADSHAW STEPPG DOWN AFTER 25 YEARS: ‘THE TIME FEELS RIGHT’
* gay labour mp *
This was ntrast to his fellow LGBT+ lawmakers at the time, such as Chris Smh, who me out after beg elected, makg history as the first gay male MP. Media ptn, Chris Bryant: I feel ls safe as a gay manSenr Labour MP Chris Bryant has told the BBC he feels "ls physilly safe as a gay man" than he did 30 years ago.
He told Nick Robson's Polil Thkg podst that Boris Johnson was not homophobic but some ernment were happy to "stir the pot" 10 said the PM was proud of the ernment's rerd on LGBT spokman also said Mr Johnson was "absolutely clear there is no place for homophobic abe". "They've learned this trick Ameri om Tmp and the end culture wars will always pick on those who are slightly different and that means the gays, the Jews and the blacks and that's always the list that crops up whenever a populist ernment gets to power.
I NOW FEEL LS SAFE AS A GAY MAN - MP CHRIS BRYANT
Levels of LGBT+ reprentatn the UK parliament - wh more gay Conservative MPs than out Labour MPs followg the general electn. * gay labour mp *
'I'm not accg the prime mister of beg homophobic but I do feel ls physilly safe as a gay man than I did 30 years ago. "He said he didn't wake up the morng "worryg I'm gog to be gay-bashed" but exprsed ncern about a rise hate crim agast LGBT people, addg that homophobia was "a very strong part of people's experience of morn Bra".
GAY LABOUR MP CHRIS BRYANT FEELS ‘PHYSILLY LS SAFE’ THAN 30 YEARS AGO, BLAM ‘TORY CULTURE WARS’
Gay and lbian activists elud Rsian secury servic a five-hour game of t and moe on Saturday to hold the first gay prott Mosw not to be broken up by rt police. * gay labour mp *
"He is also absolutely clear there is no place for homophobic abe.
THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
Labour and Co-operative MP Le Pollard was sent spible homophobic abe on Valente’s Day simply for sharg a photograph of himself wh his boyiend, Sydney. Here, for PkNews, the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport reveals how all the homophobic haters managed to achieve was remd him that Valente’s Day is, first and foremost, about love. It wasn’t jt a mix up at the florist wh the flowers, or pg wh love lockdown: we were piled on by homophobic trolls for dog what upl across the untry were dog and sendg a short tweet celebratg our relatnship.
It’s a nvenient fib we tell ourselv that the 21st century homophobia has been feated.
When my office Plymouth was vandalised last year wh homophobic graffi, Sydney was there for me.
GAY MPS: THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT SHOWS WTMSTER'S ATTU TOWARDS LGBT POLICIANS IS CHANGG
The age-old slur that gay men are child abers is a mon one, one that my team and I washed off the ont of my office not once but twice.
Le Pollard’s office Frankfort Gate, centra Plymouth, was vandalised wh homophobic graffi (Twter/Le Pollard).
THE UK’S PARLIAMENT IS STILL THE GAYT THE WORLD AFTER 2019 ELECTN
You mt be a dark place when sendg homophobic and racist abe is your pastime.
Homophobia and racism are on the rise, and we need to make a stand agast .
Gay Labour MP Chris Bryant appeared on Nick Robson’s Polil Thkg podst.
RSIAN GAYS ELU POLICE FOR FIRST LM PROTT
Labour MP Chris Bryant has said he feels “physilly ls safe” as a gay man than he did 30 years ago, blamg “Tory culture wars”. “They’ve learned this trick Ameri, om Tmp, and the end culture wars will always pick on those who are slightly different and that means the gays, the Jews and the Blacks, that’s always the list that crops up whenever a populist ernment gets to power. Gay MP Chris Bryant is ‘filled wh unease’ over ernment’s rerd on LGBT+ rights.
“The fact that they’re not prepared to do a proper ban on nversn therapy, Boris’s own history of [sayg] ‘tank-topped bum boys’, sayg that if you were to allow gay marriage why not allow two men and a dog to marry.
RSIAN POLICE CHASE AWAY ANTI-GAY CSAR OM LABOR DAY PRI MARCH
He add: “I’m not accg the prime mister of beg homophobic but I do feel ls physilly safe than I did 30 years ago as a gay man. “He is also absolutely clear there is no place for homophobic abe.
KEIR MATHER: PUBLICLY GAY LABOUR MP NEW ‘BABY OF THE HOE’ AFTER BY-ELECTN W
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.
GAY AND TRANS RIGHTS ISSU DIVI BOTH TORI AND LABOUR
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? How did a untry raised on tabloid sndal end up so at ease wh gay public figur? Homosexualy was crimalised England and Wal 1967 by reformg home secretary Roy Jenks (Stland had to wa until 1980, and Northern Ireland until 1982), but prosecutns for sexual offenc ntued to snare many gay men to the 90s.