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- BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA 'EXCG,' KATHLEEN WYNNE SAYS
- 5 OPENLY GAY POLICIANS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
- FIVE QUTNS WH THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN ELECTED ALBERTA, ALMOST 25 YEARS AGO
- MANOBA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN LOOKS BACK ON REER, STGGLE FOR RIGHTS
- CANADA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MP READY TO TAKE ON UNTRY'S TWO MAJOR 'CRISIS' POTS
BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA 'EXCG,' KATHLEEN WYNNE SAYS
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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.
5 OPENLY GAY POLICIANS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
Canada's first openly gay MP says he wants to tackle two of the biggt issu facg Canadians today — climate change and hog — as both have reached "crisis" pots. * openly gay politician in canada *
Secretly, he'd always hoped to publicly announce he was gay. But 30 years ago when the then-NDP MP for Burnaby-Kgsway beme the first MP to e out as gay, Canada was battlg the HIV/AIDS crisis. Fear of the disease, upled wh longstandg social stereotyp, meant homophobia was rampant.
FIVE QUTNS WH THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN ELECTED ALBERTA, ALMOST 25 YEARS AGO
They say 's bee of Robson and others like him that they're able to do their they also say they ntue to face hatred and threats, and there is still work to be done to fight 's a short vio of the broadst news segment that aired at the time:MP Svend Robson out as gay, 1988Former B. MP Svend Robson was the first MP Canada to publicly clare he was gayRobson was re-elected six months after he me out.
29, 1988, and told her he was gay.
MANOBA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN LOOKS BACK ON REER, STGGLE FOR RIGHTS
MP Svend Robson's nstuency office were smashed after mours swirled that he was about to e out as gay.
He said was the possibily of givg "a msage of hope and solidary to the younger gay and lbian people" that spurred him to do so. "Robson was the lone publicly gay MP for another six years, until Quebeis Réal Ménard me out 1994. In 2014, an toxited man me to Chandra Herbert's nstuency office yellg homophobic slurs.
CANADA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MP READY TO TAKE ON UNTRY'S TWO MAJOR 'CRISIS' POTS
(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Prs)Whereas 30 years ago Robson was part of "one of the most exclive clubs the world" as a gay MP, today he equently meets and speaks wh LGBT elected officials.
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