You are not logged in. Signup to contribute or login! Not recieved your activation email? Click here to send it again.

First out gay Councillor elected in Birmingham

1997

says “I was the only out gay councillor when elected (in 1997), I know there are other gay men, and always have been in , but only in the last two or three years are there ‘out’ gay men, and I am unaware of any lesbians or women I would pick out as being potentially lesbian even if they had chosen not to disclose to me. I think that lesbians are very under-represented in the local government structures”.

Contributed by: Steve Bedser, 41

Click here to read the full interview with this contributor