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A gay Australian MP proposed to his long-term partner during a debate on legalising same-sex marriage. Tim Wilson, a Liberal MP, fought back tears as he popped the question to boyfriend Ryan Bolger in the country’s House of Representatives. The occasion was the first time an MP has proposed on the floor of the House. The Speaker recorded the moment for Hansard – including noting that his partner had said “yes” from the gallery. He went on to say: “In my first speech...

Andrew Wallace was shocked when his daughter told him she was with another woman. "I couldn't believe it was happening to us," he said. "We go to church every Sunday, it was certainly a real shock, I couldn't believe it." The Queensland Liberal MP and his wife Leonie are practising Catholics who struggled to support same-sex marriage. "Leonie and I were both upset. It went against what our traditional beliefs were and what we had been raised to believe in the Catholic Church,"...

MP Andrew Griffiths apologises to the LGBT community for voting against same-sex marriage in an op-ed for the Burton Mail. Tory MP Andrew Griffiths for Burton has revealed that voting against same-sex marriage is his “biggest regret” in an op-ed for his local paper. “For while I am hugely proud of what I, and the Government I am part of has achieved over the last six years, there is one decision that causes me great pain. That was my decision to...

Chansey Paech opens 13th Parliament of Northern Territory with powerful speech about being the first openly gay Indigenous parliamentarian. "Madam Speaker, I am young, I am gay, I am black, a true blue Territorian.  I am a Centralian man, I am the nation's first openly gay, Indigenous parliamentarian.  I am eternally proud of who I am and where I come from, I own it and wear it with pride." MP Chansey Paech has delivered a powerful maiden speech during the opening...

A New York hotel has apologized after UK lawmaker Stewart McDonald was asked by a receptionist if he really wanted to share a bed with his partner. MP Stewart McDonald (above right) told Buzzfeed that the receptionist at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan appeared “uncomfortable” when he and his partner were checking in. The receptionist, said McDonald, asked: “Really? Both of you in the same bed?” https://twitter.com/StewartMcDonald/status/765216075428532224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw He said: “I told Gordon was my partner and he then just stood and stared...