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SENR WELSH POLICIAN SPEAKS OUT ON GROWG UP GAY

A love for sgg, losg a parent and life on beg the first openly-gay Welsh party lear - get to know the Labour, Conservative and Plaid Cym lears | ITV News Wal * gay welsh minister *

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.

GAY MARRIAGE OPPOSED BY WELSH MISTERS DAVID JON AND STEPHEN CRABB

A senr Welsh polician has spoken about his experienc of feelg different as he was growg up gay. * gay welsh minister *

Sectn 28, was part of the Lol Government Act 1988 when the ernment prohibed "the promotn of homosexualy by lol thori. "He said was a "homophobic and fearful time" for said, "I was aware, personally, that I was gay.

FIRST THREE OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN AMS 'A TONE'

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"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. 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.

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Get to know the three ma Welsh party lears </h1><div class="cQTzz GfVM1 OXiGB" data-ttid="tag-list"><ul class="fHh0w"><li class="Jp5fE"><div class="aqX0o"></div><div data-ttid="tag" class="_6DWPQ xp9pO"><a class="HPL4j" data-ttid="tag-lk" href="/news/wal"><span data-ttid="tag-text">Wal</span></a></div></li><li class="Jp5fE"><div class="aqX0o"></div><div data-ttid="tag" class="_6DWPQ xp9pO"><a class="HPL4j" data-ttid="tag-lk" href="/news/polics"><span data-ttid="tag-text">Polics</span></a></div></li><li class="Jp5fE"><div class="aqX0o"></div><div data-ttid="tag" class="_6DWPQ xp9pO"><a class="HPL4j" data-ttid="tag-lk" href="/news/topic/andrew-rt-davi"><span data-ttid="tag-text">Andrew RT Davi</span></a></div></li><li class="Jp5fE"><div class="aqX0o"></div><div data-ttid="tag" class="_6DWPQ xp9pO"><a class="HPL4j" data-ttid="tag-lk" href="/news/topic/adam-price"><span data-ttid="tag-text">Adam Price</span></a></div></li><li class="Jp5fE"><div class="aqX0o"></div><div class="YEmI-" data-ttid="date-time-"><i class="cp_in cp_in__clock cp_in--base u46pe" aria-hidn="te"><svg width="48px" height="48px" viewBox="0 0 48 48" versn="1.1" xmlns=" xmlns:xlk=" role="img"> <g transform="translate(-304.000000, -1456.000000)"> <g transform="translate(300.000000, 1452.000000)"> <path fill="#7B8386" fill-le="evenodd" d="M27.9766667,4.66666667 C15.0966667,4.66666667 4.66666667,15.12 4.66666667,28 C4.66666667,40.88 15.0966667,51.3333333 27.9766667,51.3333333 C40.88,51.3333333 51.3333333,40.88 51.3333333,28 C51.3333333,15.12 40.88,4.66666667 27.9766667,4.66666667 Z M28,46.6666667 C17.6866667,46.6666667 9.33333333,38.3133333 9.33333333,28 C9.33333333,17.6866667 17.6866667,9.33333333 28,9.33333333 C38.3133333,9.33333333 46.6666667,17.6866667 46.6666667,28 C46.6666667,38.3133333 38.3133333,46.6666667 28,46.6666667 Z M29.1666667,16.3333333 L25.6666667,16.3333333 L25.6666667,30.3333333 L37.9166667,37.6833333 L39.6666667,34.8133333 L29.1666667,28.5833333 L29.1666667,16.3333333 Z" /> </g> </g></svg></i><time class="iCsJz _0Z4Oc" dateTime="2021-04-22T16:49:29Z" data-ttid="date-time">Thursday 22 April 2021 at 5:49pm</time></div></li></ul></div><figure class="ZN3xR"><picture class="cp_picture"><source type="image/avif" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 1280px)"/><source type="image/avif" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 1024px)"/><source type="image/avif" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 768px)"/><source type="image/avif" srcSet="><source type="image/webp" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 1280px)"/><source type="image/webp" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 1024px)"/><source type="image/webp" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 768px)"/><source type="image/webp" srcSet="><source type="image/eg" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 1280px)"/><source type="image/eg" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 1024px)"/><source type="image/eg" srcSet=" media="(m-width: 768px)"/><source type="image/eg" srcSet="><img alt="Andrew RT Davi, Adam PRice and Mark Drakeford as a child" class="cp_picture__img" src="></picture></figure></hear><div class="_074l4 cp_grid__em" data-ttid="article-body"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Wh jt weeks to go ahead of the Senedd Electn, ITV Wal' Polil Edor Adrian Masters sat down wh the three ma party lears to fd out what shap the three policians. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Candid discsns, hont anecdot and rarely-heard sights about the next possible First Mister featured the three terviews which aired on ITV Wal. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Adrian asked Mark Drakeford, Andrew RT Davi and Adam Price what ma them, what motivat them and why people should vote for the on 6 May. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Growg up on a farm, Drakeford naturally has a love for the outdoors. </figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"> <strong class="_1ATDh">Mark Drakeford, Lear, Welsh Labour:</strong></p><ul class="xhBdb" data-ttid="list"><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh"><i></i></strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/wal/2021-04-05/senedd-electn-2021-what-are-welsh-labour-promisg"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh"><i>Senedd Electn 2021: What are Welsh Labour promisg?</i></strong></span></a><strong class="_1ATDh"><i></i></strong></p></li></ul><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Sce beg First Mister and Welsh Labour lear 2018, Mark Drakeford has bee a faiar face on the big screen, ontg daily ronavis briefgs.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Growg up on a farm, he said he naturally has a love for the outdoors. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He rellected his time as young boy, kg ws on the farm. He said a different life he would have loved to "work on the land."</p><asi class="s0-6- A8Lwr" data-ttid="quote" aria-label="Quote om Mark Drakeford: "In a different life I would have been very happy workg on the land.""><p class="_623xg">In a different life I would have been very happy workg on the land.</p><footer class="zD5PZ"><ce class="_3pG1n">Mark Drakeford</ce></footer></asi><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mark Drakeford told Adrian about another moment history that shaped him - the mers strik the 1980s.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He scribed how the "awful scen" he wns as a probatn officer at the time shaped him as a polician. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He said: "Lookg at those clips is que hard to repture the strength of feelg and the bterns of the time.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Durg his time as a probatn officer Mark explaed how he ed to help "observe" picket l. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He said: "I ed to get up at 4am, we would observe what was gog on and wre reports about the way was. They were awful, awful scen."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I also remember leavg the hoe to meet another group of people gog for the first time knockg doors askg people to donate food bee people are starvg - and that is not an exaggeratn. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I remember beg so heartened every door we knocked on everyone went to the kchens and found some ts and brought somethg.” </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He scribed as a "cel, liberate stctn of muni and people's futur."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In his own time, Mark has a love for his allotment, sgg and playg the claret. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Andrew om a farmg and agricultural background </figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Andrew RT Davi, Lear, Welsh Conservativ:</strong></p><ul class="xhBdb" data-ttid="list"><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh"><i></i></strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/wal/2021-04-05/senedd-electn-2021-what-are-the-welsh-nservativ-promisg"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh"><i>Senedd Electn 2021: What are the Welsh Conservativ promisg?</i></strong></span></a><strong class="_1ATDh"><i></i></strong></p></li></ul><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Andrew Robert Tudor Davi has lead the Welsh Conservative party twice the past - but is now termed to lead the untry.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He joed the party 1997 and was elected to Cardiff Bay 2007. After beg party lear 2011 - 2018 he then returned 2021 after a hiat. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Andrew om a farmg and agricultural background and said the BSE crisis 1990 motivated him to get to polics. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He told Adrian, “The muny I red passnately about was sudnly jt st asi wh ltle or no thought at the time. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">“I n remember gog on a lobby missn to Wtmster bee obvly was pre-volutn and was a Conservative ernment nng the untry at the time. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">“I remember my wife sayg stead of shoutg at the TV - 'Why don’t you do somethg about ? And therefore I joed the Conservative party 1997 when not many people were jog the Conservative party.” </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The farmg man is also very open about livg wh dyslexia.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He is a tstee of a dyslexia chary that helps young people livg wh the learng difficulty like himself. </p><asi class="s0-6- A8Lwr" data-ttid="quote" aria-label="Quote om Andrew RT Davi: "Hopefully by potg out that I have got dyslexia I n be a role mol and example to others.""><p class="_623xg">Hopefully by potg out that I have got dyslexia I n be a role mol and example to others.</p><footer class="zD5PZ"><ce class="_3pG1n">Andrew RT Davi</ce></footer></asi><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">When asked how much of a challenge is for him, he said, “I was always reticent at first about speakg about my dyslexia bee I looked at wrongly and as a sign of weakns but as life has gone on and my public life has gone on, I looked at as a pot of strength. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Hopefully by potg out that I have got dyslexia I n be a role mol and example to others.”</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Andrew is proud about his tnal background, havg not gone to universy.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He said, "I went to the universy of life. I didn't s the mon room batg polics stead was blood sweat and tears liverg spuds to chip shops and garage foreurt, lumpg first thg the morng and last thg at night. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"That’s life, that’s gettg dirt unr your nails and knowg how the wheels of mons rotate.”</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">A pivotal moment that shaped Andrew's life was when his mother died when he was jt 15 - a time he scribed as "very sad". </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He said, "They were happy moments, but mother passed a way that was very sad. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I thk 's appreciatg life and makg sure you live every moment you possibly n bee 's so agile. You never know when will get taken om you."</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Adam is the first openly-gay party lear Wal' history. </figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Adam Price, Lear, Plaid Cym:</strong></p><ul class="xhBdb" data-ttid="list"><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh"><i></i></strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/wal/2021-04-05/senedd-electn-2021-what-are-plaid-cym-promisg"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh"><i>Senedd Electn 2021: What are Plaid Cym promisg?</i></strong></span></a><strong class="_1ATDh"><i></i></strong></p></li></ul><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Adam is the first openly-gay party lear Wal' history. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The polician has gone om Member of Parliament to Member of the Senedd to party lear the space of 20 years. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Brought up a uncil hoe a mg fay, Adam was always adamant that he wanted a different life and to be the future first Prime Mister of an pennt Wal. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Adam attribut his groundg and valu to his mother who "gave her children the opportuny to realise their potential."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He explaed how he was a sensive child and is still an emotnal person now. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Adam, who is for Welsh pennce, has always been opened about his sexualy. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The father of one, explaed to Adrian how the mpaign agast Sectn 28 shaped him as a person and polician. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Sectn 28, was part of the Lol Government Act 1988 when the ernment prohibed "the promotn of homosexualy by lol thori."</p><asi class="s0-6- A8Lwr" data-ttid="quote" aria-label="Quote om Adam Price: "I was aware, personally, that I was gay. But even though I was on the march, I was the closet. ""><p class="_623xg">I was aware, personally, that I was gay. But even though I was on the march, I was the closet. </p><footer class="zD5PZ"><ce class="_3pG1n">Adam Price</ce></footer></asi><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He said was a "homophobic and fearful time" for him.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He said, "I was aware, personally, that I was gay. But even though I was on the march, I was the closet. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I actually didn't e out to my mother and father until 1995. You know, I left till Christmas Day, 1995. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I was termed to e out on Christmas Day, and I left till 10 mut to midnight on Christmas Day, bee I cid, I never wanted another Christmas, where I wasn't hont, to my parents about who I was, you know, the life that I was leadg. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"And that was, that was a ridue of Sectn 28 and the homophobia of the 1980s.”</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Another key moment Adam's past that shaped him as a person was - like Mark Drakeford - the mer's strike. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He explaed how was "the worst of tim and the bt of ways at tim."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He said, "Seeg workg class people durg the strik anisg themselv, disverg talent of logistics. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"The anisatn - showed you the untapped talent workg class muni. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"It was a universy of radil polics. 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