Once gay ndidat were monised – or forced to hi the closet. Now Wtmster boasts 32 LGB MPs, more than any other untry. But, as gay policians past and prent nfirm, the battle is not over yet
Contents:
- HOW STLAND BEME THE WORLD LEAR ON LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
- THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
- SNP CHIEF ANG ROBERTSON ‘PROUD’ HIS PARTY IS THE ‘GAYT’ WTMSTER AS HAS MOST GAY AND LBIAN MPS
- THE UK’S PARLIAMENT IS STILL THE GAYT THE WORLD AFTER 2019 ELECTN
HOW STLAND BEME THE WORLD LEAR ON LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
* gay snp mps *
"I get more abe for beg a Tory Stland than I do for beg a gay woman, " says Annie Wells, one of a batch of new MSPs voted at the electn this month that has ma the untry's parliament the most proportnally gay-iendly on step up to a seat Holyrood has brought the total number of openly gay, lbian and bisexual policians to ten, 7% of all MSPs. You wouldn't be openly gay , " she new MSP for Glasgow also adms that her party's passn for LGBT rights uld be better. "We need to make more of showg that regardls of your genr, or if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, trans, that everyone's wele.
THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
THE boss of the SNP Wtmster has boasted he leads the “gayt parliamentary party.” * gay snp mps *
Davidson is one of four openly-gay party lears Stland.
Joe FzPatrick is a gay SNP MSP. Some SNP members cludg the openly gay member, Jam Neale Hanvey, broke away om the party to form the Alba party 2021. Stephen Twigg was gay – a “practisg homosexual”, to e a formula still popular at the time – and though mours about Michael Portillo’s sexualy had been swirlg for years, he was most fely not.
SNP CHIEF ANG ROBERTSON ‘PROUD’ HIS PARTY IS THE ‘GAYT’ WTMSTER AS HAS MOST GAY AND LBIAN MPS
The day after Twigg’s victory, Chris Smh, an MP sce 1983 and out sce 1984, beme the first openly gay secretary of state – culture, naturally. The years rolled by and anti-gay legislatn was rolled back.
THE UK’S PARLIAMENT IS STILL THE GAYT THE WORLD AFTER 2019 ELECTN
Now Bra fds self wh the queert legislature the world: 32 of the Uned Kgdom’s 650 MPs llg themselv gay, lbian or bisexual. And two nstuenci last week – Lanster & Fleetwood and Milton Keyn South – both the Tory and Labour ndidat were gay, lbian or bisexual.