Keir Mather: Gay Labour MP new ‘baby of the hoe’ - Attu

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• KEIR MATHER: PUBLICLY GAY LABOUR MP NEW ‘BABY OF THE HOE’ AFTER BY-ELECTN W
• WTMSTER NOW HAS 32 OPENLY GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL MPS
• I NOW FEEL LS SAFE AS A GAY MAN - MP CHRIS BRYANT
• GAY AND TRANS RIGHTS ISSU DIVI BOTH TORI AND LABOUR
• 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
• THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
• KEIR MATHER: PUBLICLY GAY LABOUR MP NEW ‘BABY OF THE HOE’ AFTER BY-ELECTN W
• LABOUR MP SPEAKS OUT POWERFULLY ON HIS YEARS 'TRYG NOT TO BE GAY'

KEIR MATHER: PUBLICLY GAY LABOUR MP NEW ‘BABY OF THE HOE’ AFTER BY-ELECTN W

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. “Ambassador, I’m a gay man.

WTMSTER NOW HAS 32 OPENLY GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL MPS

The ambassador was forced to fend the natn’s rerd, and clared: “It’s difficult to say if there are any gay people Chechnya.

I NOW FEEL LS SAFE AS A GAY MAN - MP CHRIS BRYANT

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. In 2009, Parliament named one of s 11 select mtee meetg rooms 'Rabow Room', dited to gay, lbian, and transgenr New Zealanrs. Wtmster be the world's gayt Parliament wh 32 openly gay, lbian and bisexual MPs There are 12 Conservative, 13 Labour and six SNP MPs who are openly gayIn the last Parliament there were 26 gay, lbian and bisexual members Study also nclud there were 155 electn ndidat who were gay Published: 23:14 BST, 13 May 2015 | Updated: 13:14 BST, 14 May 2015.

GAY AND TRANS RIGHTS ISSU DIVI BOTH TORI AND LABOUR

Bra now has 32 openly gay, lbian and bisexual MPs ParliamentBra now has the gayt Parliament the world after last week’s are 32 openly gay, lbian and bisexual MPs – jt unr 5 per cent of the total number the Commons. This dwarfs the 12 and ten the parliaments of Swen and the Netherlands rpectively, both untri that pri themselv on their liberal attu to gay rights.

Acrdg to analysis by the New Statman magaze, 13 are Labour MPs, 12 are Conservativ and six reprent the the last Parliament there were 26 gay, lbian and bisexual Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative year the Conservativ put up more openly gay ndidat than any other party – 39 men and three women. Out of their 13 gay, lbian and bisexual MPs om the prev Parliament, 12 stood for re-electn and only one – Eric Ollerenshaw – was feated. His loss was ma up for by the electn of Ben Howlett of the ten seats Labour took om the Tori, three were won by gay ndidat – W Streetg, Peter Kyle and Cathere Smh.

The ne cumbent Labour gay MPs held on fortably and the SNP returned seven gay and lbian MPs, cludg 20-year-old Mhairi Black, the youngt MP to be elected sce SNP parliamentary party is now 12. 5 per cent gay, lbian and bisexual – the hight proportn of any party the Cathere Smh, left and W Streetg, right, who are openly homosexual won seats for Labour prevly held by the Conservativ The SNP returned seven gay and lbian MPs cludg 20-year-old Mhairi Black, pictured, the youngt MP to be elected sce 1667 The New Statman lculated that there were 155 out gay ndidat May 2015.

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

Their report also nclud that Tory gay, lbian and bisexual ndidat tend to perform nsirably better than their straight lleagu. Openly gay Labour MP Peter Kyle celebrat beg elected to reprent Hove at the recent electn Ben Howlett, is the openly gay Conservative MP, reprentg Bath, wng the seat om the Liberal DemocratsHowever all four gay and bisexual Liberal Democrat MPs were oted om their Reynolds, om the LGBT [Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr] Reprentatn and Rights Rearch Iniative, said: ‘In some plac, beg out seems to have helped the ndidate’s vote. 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.

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

'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".

"He is also absolutely clear there is no place for homophobic abe. Sign up for the View om Wtmster email for expert analysis straight to your boxGet our ee View om Wtmster emailOne of the most remarkable, yet pleasg, statistics that fascated polil number-cnchers at last year’s electn was that the Hoe of Commons end up wh 32 lbian, gay and bisexual MPs.

LGBT History Month is celebrated Febary – and this photograph of 28 MPs and peers is a b of history self, as is the largt number of publicly out parliamentarians pictured together at one time, om a parliament wh more gay members than any the Barll, who prevly worked for the then First Mister of Stland, Alex Salmond, said: “I only me out to myself and to my fay durg the electn. Lord Chris Smh is the picture – he was the first openly gay MP the 1980s and also the first to be appoted to the bet when he beme Culture Secretary 1997. 10 Ia Stewart The Milton Keyn South MP is a former puty chairman of LGBTory, and won plds for a speech durg the last parliament on how he was bullied at school for beg gay.

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

The pneers of LGBT rights 2015Show all 611 Chris Smh, Baron Smh of Fsbury As pla Chris Smh the 1980s, he ma history by beg the first openly gay man the Commons. 13 Stuart Andrew Parliamentary private secretary to the Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughl, he told the Commons three years ago of how he was once “beaten unnsc” a homophobic attack.

16 Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick of Brixton The two-time Liberal Democrat ndidate for London mayor was prevly famo for beg the untry’s most senr openly gay police officer. 19 Waheed Alli, Baron Alli of Norbury The 51-year-old is an openly gay Mlim who ma his fortune the media dtry before beg a peer 1998. 21 Mart Docherty Somethg of an extrovert, the SNP MP for Wt Dunbartonshire arrived at this photoshoot askg, loudly, “Where are the gays?

23 David Munll The Secretary of State for Stland beme the first ever openly gay Conservative bet mister last month, a cisn he said was “one of the most important” of his life. 26 Stewart McDonald The Glasgow South SNP MP, a member of the Commons Transport Select Commtee, clared his party to be the “gayt group Wtmster” last year, wh 12 per cent out.

KEIR MATHER: PUBLICLY GAY LABOUR MP NEW ‘BABY OF THE HOE’ AFTER BY-ELECTN W

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. 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.

LABOUR MP SPEAKS OUT POWERFULLY ON HIS YEARS 'TRYG NOT TO BE GAY'

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.

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.