Senr Welsh polician speaks out on growg up gay - Swansea Bay News

Contents:

• SENR WELSH POLICIAN SPEAKS OUT ON GROWG UP GAY
• GAY MARRIAGE OPPOSED BY WELSH MISTERS DAVID JON AND STEPHEN CRABB
• FIRST THREE OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN AMS 'A TONE'

SENR WELSH POLICIAN SPEAKS OUT ON GROWG UP GAY

A mer's son om the Amman Valley, Adam Price's polics were shaped by the long mers' strike of the beme an MP 2001, reprentg Carmarthen East and Defwr, and ma his mark Wtmster by leadg an unsuccsful attempt to impeach the then prime mister, Tony Blair, over claims that Saddam Hse's regime Iraq posssed weapons of mass Price stood down as an MP 2010 before gog to study at the prtig Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Universy the 2016 he returned to ontle polics - this time Cardiff Bay, still reprentg his home mpaign leaflet that year famoly scribed him as an "X-factor polician" and the "mab darogan" (the son of prophecy) - a figure om Welsh mythology who is said will reem Wal s hour of source, GEOFF CADDICK POOL/AFP via Getty ImagImage ptn, Adam Price and other party lears meetg the Prce of Wal at the Senedd last yearThe ph for Plaid's hot seatTwo years later he oted Leanne Wood and beme the first openly gay lear of a Welsh polil Price scribed the cisn to challenge one of his "olst iends polics" as "the most difficult thg I've had to wrtle wh my polil life" Wood would later tell the BBC that the move led to the llapse of their a parture om his precsor's approach, Mr Price put the notorly tricky subject of pennce at the heart of his polil plan, pledgg to hold a referendum on the issue by at the snap general electn of December 2019 the party found self squeezed out of the Brex-domated bate, and though Plaid held on to s four seats Wtmster, s share of the vote fell back and me a disappotg third s ma target seat of Ynys Mô source, Matthew HorwoodImage ptn, Labour First Mister Mark Drakeford and Adam Price signed a -operatn al late 2021First mister bid ends 'failure'And so to the 2021 Senedd electn, where pennce would be ont and centre of the party's of the vote, Mr Price said that he would unt anythg ls than beg first mister as a "failure", and he led out workg wh the Conservativ and jog a aln wh Labour as a junr partner. "Adam is the first openly-gay party lear Wal' history.

Adam is the first openly-gay party lear Wal' history. Sectn 28, was part of the Lol Government Act 1988 when the ernment prohibed "the promotn of homosexualy by lol thori.

GAY MARRIAGE OPPOSED BY WELSH MISTERS DAVID JON AND STEPHEN CRABB

"He said was a "homophobic and fearful time" for said, "I was aware, personally, that I was gay. "And that was, that was a ridue of Sectn 28 and the homophobia of the 1980s. Speakg his nstuency at Onllwyn Welfare Hall – a place popularised the 2014 film Pri about strikg mers and the gay and lbian group that supported them – Mil talks about his own history and what means for him now.

WATCH: Welsh Government mister jeremy talks about growg up gay. The Welsh tn mister has acced mpaigners of puttg teachers unr prsure by liberately spreadg “misrmatn” about the teachg of LGBTQ+ Mil also told of how he stggled to fd his place the world as a gay young person, an era when “someone like me” did not exist as far as the school curriculum was said the new Welsh relatnships and sexualy tn (RSE) curriculum would give young people “the knowledge they need to safely navigate the morn world”. He said he hoped would mean that the future, young people’s troductn to the word “gay” would not be as a playground mpaigners agast the move claim “forc LGBTQ+ teachg” on all children om the age of three and characterised the curriculum, which is beg rolled out, as “woke” and “dangero”.

”Of his experienc of school, Mil said: “Growg up gay the 1980s, like many, I stggled to fd my place the world. I want to make sure the first time someone hears the word ‘gay’, is not as an sult on the playground.

FIRST THREE OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN AMS 'A TONE'

Durg Covid-19 we set up a bpoke LGBTQ+ venue grant and jt this month and our First Mister donated blood si by si wh gay activists who until this pot had been prohibed om dog so.

Media ptn, Prime Mister David Cameron fac cricism om some Tori for supportg gay marriageWelsh Secretary David Jon will vote agast plans to legalise gay marriage Wal and fellow Conservative and Wal Office puty Stephen Crabb will also oppose the Mister David Cameron fac cricism om some Tori for supportg the ia, wh Monmouth MP David Davi llg "barkg mad" Davi said the party would lose loyal activists if prsed ahead wh the Jon, the MP for Clwyd Wt, cled to give terviews on the UK ernment's same sex marriage plans as "this bears no relatn to his role as secretary of state for Wal" Crabb, the Preli Pembrokhire MP, fears the proposals will not protect plac of worship om a legal challenge should they refe to rry out the weekend, Mr Davi said the ia was "barkg mad" risked g ntroversy by sayg most parents "would prefer their children not to be gay, knowg most parents want grandchildren if nothg else" UK ernment will set out s plans soon after a nsultatn on measur to allow homosexual upl to senr Tory MPs and peers have lnched a mpaign group backg same sex marriage.