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. "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.

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

"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. WdsorKathleen Wynne is spirg to and appled by Wdsor's gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny.

KATHLEEN WYNNE SPIR GAY 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.

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

(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. 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. 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.

PARENTS TELL WYNNE HAVG OPENLY GAY PREMIER HELPS CHANGE ATTUS

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.

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.

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

"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. 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. 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?

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

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

WYNNE MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA

“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.

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.

ONTAR TAK PRI THAT GAY PREMIER’S W TAKEN STRI

READ MORE: Ontar Liberals pick openly gay woman as their lear and premier“Well, I thk bee I was olr, I had lived and I was nfint, ” she said. Wynne is Ontar’s first female premier and Canada’s first openly gay premier.

COMMENTARY: My first experience wh racism“As the Mister of Edutn, … was really important to me that we have equy polici place our tn system bee — not jt girls and lbians and gay kids — everyone need to feel like they belong and they are gog to be treated equally, no matter their genr or background. The Ontar Premier relled a volunteer dance for women that she ordated alongsi her partner, Jane, which helped raise money for the Lbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Le, a distrs le for children who are part of the LGBTQ muny. Footnote 1 Evert and Horvath (Reference Evert and Horvath2021) provi experimental evince that lbians and gay men are more likely to support lbian and gay ndidat.

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

The thors fd that lbian and gay voters were more likely to support lbian and gay ndidat. Their rults are nonsignifint for bisexual, “other” sexual inty, and “other” genr inty rponnts, but the pot timat suggt an affy for lbian and gay ndidat among the other subgroups. In addn, Evert and Raney (Reference Evert, Raney and Tremblay2019) show that rponnts overall (rather than LGBT rponnts specifilly) assumed that Wynne would reprent the terts of lbians and gay men better than her petors.

Given past work that has found that lbian and gay voters are more likely to vote for lbian and gay ndidat, our send set of hypoth nsirs the possibily of only LGBT affy effects. In a review of media verage of three out lbian or gay lears of polil parti Canada (Kathleen Wynne, Prce Edward Island Liberal premier Wa McLghl, and Parti québéis lear André Boisclair), Lalancette and Tremblay (Reference Lalancette, Tremblay and Tremblay2019) fd that Wynne received prs verage as a “good, rpectable lbian/gay” (siar to McLghl but not Boisclair). In particular, they assumed that she would reprent the terts of lbians and gay men better than her petors.