WATCH: Ontar Elects Canada's First Gay Premier, Kathleen Wynne, After Inspirg Speech

Contents:

• BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA 'EXCG,' KATHLEEN WYNNE SAYS
• PARENTS TELL KATHLEEN WYNNE HAVG OPENLY GAY PREMIER MAK THEIR HOMOSEXUAL KIDS SAFER
• KATHLEEN WYNNE SPIR GAY MUNY
• KATHLEEN WYNNE TO BEE ONTAR'S FIRST FEMALE AND OPENLY GAY PREMIER
• PARENTS TELL WYNNE HAVG OPENLY GAY PREMIER HELPS CHANGE ATTUS
• WATCH: ONTAR ELECTS COUNTRY'S FIRST GAY PREMIER AFTER INSPIRG SPEECH
• KATHLEEN WYNNE TO BEE ONTAR'S FIRST FEMALE AND OPENLY GAY PREMIER
• WYNNE MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA
• ONTAR TAK PRI THAT GAY PREMIER’S W TAKEN STRI
• PARENTS TELL KATHLEEN WYNNE HAVG OPENLY GAY PREMIER MAK THEIR HOMOSEXUAL KIDS SAFER

BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA 'EXCG,' KATHLEEN WYNNE SAYS

Kchener-WaterlooParents Ontar equently tell Kathleen Wynne that havg an openly-gay polil lear the provce mak life safer for their homosexual children, the premier said Wednday. · The Canadian Prs · Posted: Apr 08, 2015 9:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 9, 2015Wynne is the first openly gay premier Canadian history. (The Canadian Prs)Parents Ontar equently tell Kathleen Wynne that havg an openly-gay polil lear the provce mak life safer for their homosexual children, the premier said Wednday.

They're gay and they see your prence there as an important signal that our society is changg.

"'Wynne said she's not a gay activist, but she do have "add rponsibili" as an openly-gay premier to try to make society more tolerant and clive.

PARENTS TELL KATHLEEN WYNNE HAVG OPENLY GAY PREMIER MAK THEIR HOMOSEXUAL KIDS SAFER

"I never pretend to be a gay activist, that's not who I was, but the fact is that beg a lbian, beg this office, allows people to look at this office a different way, " she said. Speakg at the anti-bullyg Pk Shirt Day event at the high school, Wynne said she's equently approached by fathers who say havg an "out" premier helps make thgs better, and safer, for their gay children.

"Wynne told the stunts about her own experience high school  the 1960s, sayg no one would e out then as gay, and many s would not tell their parents about their sexualy.

"He didn't e out until universy and he didn't tell his parents until he found out he was sick, so his parents found out he was sick and he was gay at the same time. "Wynne said she wants a world where people feel safe and secure  their sexualy and n be loved for who they are regardls of their sexual orientatn or rarely rais the issue of her homosexualy, but has spoken about three tim the past week, nmng Indiana's relig eedom law, votg agast so-lled nversn therapy and at the anti-bullyg rally.

KATHLEEN WYNNE SPIR GAY MUNY

WdsorKathleen Wynne is spirg to and appled by Wdsor's gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. Ontar's first female premier and the untry's first openly gay premier to be sworn later this weekKathleen Wynne says she feels a rponsibily to young gay people.

(Nathan Dete/Canadian Prs)When Kathleen Wynne is sworn as premier, she will bee the first female premier of Ontar and the first openly gay premier the weekend, Wynne said she feels a rponsibily to young gay people, pecially, to show them there's a more welg future 's spirg to and appld by Wdsor's gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. '— Leona Gevaert, high school stuntLeona Gevaert is the prime mister of Sandwich High School's gay-straight alliance.

It was a difficult procs at first, " she gay-straight alliance was a safe place. "We have legalized gay marriage Canada. Everyone’s pretty much okay wh Canada, but at the same time, we haven’t had anyone [this proment] beg really open office, " Gevaert Pri spired by WynneJulie Leadbetter is gay.

KATHLEEN WYNNE TO BEE ONTAR'S FIRST FEMALE AND OPENLY GAY PREMIER

She tght elementary school the Wdsor area for 32 years until said beg gay and beg a teacher had s challeng then and still do tght for five years before g out 1985. "It’s important when any high profile person out as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr.

PARENTS TELL WYNNE HAVG OPENLY GAY PREMIER HELPS CHANGE ATTUS

We have an openly gay, first woman premier Ontar. "If this puts a ltle nt the homophobia and the trans-phobia that's out there then that's a great thg. TORONTO -- Parents Ontar equently tell Kathleen Wynne that havg an openly-gay polil lear the provce mak life safer for their homosexual children, the premier said Wednday.

They're gay and they see your prence there as an important signal that our society is changg.

Wynne said she's not a gay activist, but she do have "add rponsibili" as an openly-gay premier to try to make society more tolerant and clive. "I never pretend to be a gay activist, that's not who I was, but the fact is that beg a lbian, beg this office, allows people to look at this office a different way, " she said. Speakg at the anti-bullyg Pk Shirt Day event at the high school, Wynne said she's equently approached by fathers who say havg an "out" premier helps make thgs better, and safer, for their gay children.

WATCH: ONTAR ELECTS COUNTRY'S FIRST GAY PREMIER AFTER INSPIRG SPEECH

Wynne told the stunts about her own experience high school the 1960s, sayg no one would e out then as gay, and many s would not tell their parents about their sexualy. "He didn't e out until universy and he didn't tell his parents until he found out he was sick, so his parents found out he was sick and he was gay at the same time. Wynne rarely rais the issue of her homosexualy, but has spoken about three tim the past week, nmng Indiana's relig eedom law, votg agast so-lled nversn therapy and at the anti-bullyg rally.

KATHLEEN WYNNE TO BEE ONTAR'S FIRST FEMALE AND OPENLY GAY PREMIER

The 25th premier of Ontar – and the provce’s first female and openly gay premier – says was not long after she first me out as a lbian 1991 that she began nng more formal rac like the Pri & Remembrance Run. Wynne had jt formed a surprise majory ernment days before that n took place, and she was keenly aware of how exced people were that she had been elected her own right as an out-gay female polician.

Ontar ma history on Saturday by selectg Kathleen Wynne as premier after she livered an spirg fense of whether a gay woman is electable is the first woman to lead Ontar and the first openly gay person to lead any provce Canada.

After three ballots, Wynne won by a vote of 1, 150 to 866, acrdg to the Globe and 's speech before the 2013 Ontar Liberal learship nventn Toronto addrsed the notn that an openly gay person uld not w her party's learship post.

WYNNE MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA

She did by addrsg ncerns that, if a general electn is triggered by the opposn, an openly gay premier would be a losg proposn for voters.

"Is Ontar ready for a gay premier?

But let's say what actually means: n a gay woman w?

ONTAR TAK PRI THAT GAY PREMIER’S W TAKEN STRI

When I ran 2003, I was told that the people of North Toronto and the people of Thorncliffe Park weren't ready for a gay woman.

The openly gay Toronto polician was a ont-nner om the start of the learship mpaign though she was ntuoly bted by Wdsor’s Sandra Pupatello early polls and the first two rounds of votg at Saturday’s nventn. “Can a gay woman w? When I ran 2003, I was told that the people of North Toronto and Thorncliffe Park weren’t ready to elect a gay woman.

PARENTS TELL KATHLEEN WYNNE HAVG OPENLY GAY PREMIER MAK THEIR HOMOSEXUAL KIDS SAFER

On Saturday eveng, she ma history on two onts: as the first woman chosen to lead Ontar's ernment and the first openly gay premier the natn's three rounds of votg, she stormed past Sandra Pupatello at the Ontar Liberal learship nventn Toronto's Maple Leaf Garns, featg her chief rival 1, 150 to 866 to succeed Dalton the rults were announced, she joed hands wh Ms.

Wynne turned a formidable performance at the nventn, wh a r entrance that saw her supporters dancg on-stage, followed by a speech that bed personal anecdot wh partisan also addrsed, head-on, the worry some Liberals had exprsed that an openly-gay ndidate uld not w a general electn.