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Contents:
- ‘IT’S PART OF WHO I AM’: THE GAY LIBERAL MPS FOR WHOM THE POLIL IS MORE THAN PERSONAL
- WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY MPS CANBERRA?
‘IT’S PART OF WHO I AM’: THE GAY LIBERAL MPS FOR WHOM THE POLIL IS MORE THAN PERSONAL
When Trent Zimmerman won the North Sydney byelectn December, was the first time an openly gay man or woman had won a Hoe of Reprentativ the July electn, there are now three gay Liberal lower-hoe MPs: the former “eedom missner” Tim Wilson, a former head of the Natnal Retail Associatn, Trevor Evans, and speakg wh all three, is clear they are proud of this achievement.
”Wilson c the crimalisatn of homosexual acts as an example of the evils of “public llective moraly” speaks wh equal passn when he says his grandmother would not be able to make sandwich her home kchen for Country Fire Authory volunteers bee of food safety laws – the nanny state terferg wh is a ls faiar face, g om the retailers’ peak body. He ced Atralia’s law nyg gay people accs to marriage and higher rat of prsn and suici among LGBTI his speech, some people had advised him that his sexualy was not an issue he need to reflect upon, he why his lleagu might have told him that, Zimmerman repli: “their msage was that I shouldn’t allow myself to be fed by my sexualy”. I am not parliament as a gay activist but is part of who I am.
WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY MPS CANBERRA?
I thought the fact I got there as an openly gay person was worth celebratg. ”Zimmerman says sexualy “don’t fe me terms of my approach to polics – but you have a heightened sense of equaly and fairns, particularly growg up at a time that change is happeng but is still hard to e out and intify as gay” says that to avoid beg stereotyped, gay policians have to show they are “there for a whole broad range of polici, cludg enomic ernance and other social issu” did this tr arrive polics general and the Liberal party particular?