Contents:
- FOUR OPENLY GAY OR LBIAN NEW MPS ELECTED TO OTTAWA
- GAY CANADIAN MPS ON THE LEGACY OF BILL C-150
- GAY CANADIAN MPS ON THE LEGACY OF BILL C-150
FOUR OPENLY GAY OR LBIAN NEW MPS ELECTED TO OTTAWA
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. 'Canadians are hurtg': Poilievre says he'll fight for the workg class first uc speechAnalysisIn Poilievre, Liberals face a lear who gets unr his opponents' skWh Poilievre's victory, some Liberal MPs hope party will pivot to the centreOntar MP Eric Dunn, a gay man, will serve as Poilievre's party-uc liaison, a posn he also held when O'Toole was the party will be Dunn's job to act as a go-between, nnectg MPs and senators wh party, who reprents the eastern Ontar ridg of Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, was a popular surrogate the last electn, routely stumpg for would-be Conservative MPs other areas of the Pl-H will be the Quebec litenant, a reward of sorts for backg Poilievre's bid while a number of other proment Tori om the provce supported former Quebec premier Jean Bnswick MP Jake Stewart, one of only a handful of Conservative MPs om Atlantic Canada, will serve as the "uc mtee -ordator, " a new posn. It’s enuragg that voters have ls patience for homophobia and transphobia MPs and have oted them, though we shouldn’t get too placent about rryg on this work future electns.
GAY CANADIAN MPS ON THE LEGACY OF BILL C-150
I will also be very cur to see which of the three gay Liberal MPs make to Cabet. From six gay, lbian, bisexual and queer MPs the 42nd Parliament, we’re now down to four. In Xtra’s survey, Oliphant said when elected, he’ll raise qutns about the “science behd Canada Blood Servic’ screeng of blood donors, particularly gay men.
“The last parliament had only five out gay men and one lbian, ” he says.
Along wh one retirement, that leav six openly gay or lbian MPs Parliament. The Liberal uc will feature four out gay men — a rerd for the party — cludg returng cumbent and former bet mister Stt Brison (Kgs-Hants, NS), returng MP Rob Oliphant (Don Valley Wt, ON), and newers Randy Boissonnlt (Edmonton-Centre) and Seam O’Regan (St John’s South-Mount Pearl).
GAY CANADIAN MPS ON THE LEGACY OF BILL C-150
Boissonnlt and O’Regan are the first openly gay MPs ever elected om Alberta and Newfoundland.
Both have been touted as possible bet misters, and if Brison is reappoted to bet, would set a rerd for most openly gay misters a feral or provcial bet. Electn night was not as happy for the New Democrats, who lost, along wh more than half their seats, three strong openly gay cumbents: Craig Stt (Toronto-Danforth), Dany Mor (Chiutimi-Le Fjord) and Philip Toone (Gaspésie-L Îsl--la-Malee). The NDP ran five other gay and lbian ndidat that were feated: Stt Bell (Saskatoon Grasswoods), Jacqui Ggras (North Okanagan-Shwap), Pl Harris (Red Deer-Mounta View), Deborah Chief (Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman) and former Saskatchewan fance mister Andrew Thomson (Eglton-Lawrence).
Defeated gay Liberal ndidat were Jefey Rock (Red Deer-Labe) and Christopher Brown (Peace River-Wtlock). Wh Libby Davi’ retirement, Stt Brison is now the longt-servg openly gay MP Parliament (both joed Parliament 1997), although he’ll have to w one more electn to beat the 25-year rerd set by Svend Robson, who retired 2004. Forty years ago, Canada’s Hoe of Commons crimalized homosexualy wh the passage of Bill C-150.