It's a Queer World

b. 24 October 1933 Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing th...

b. 26 August 1951 An increasing number of openly gay men and women are reaching cabinet office in many European countries. Roger Karoutc...

b. May 30, 1950 “Any time there are Parisians fighting for more freedom ... I’m with them.” In 2001 when Bertrand Delanoë wa...

b. May 17, 1956 "The voters of Houston have opened the door to history. I know what this means to many of us who never thought we ...

b  27 December 1961 Guido_Westerwelle (right)  and partner  Michael Mronz   (L) Guido Westerwelle   is a  German  liberal politician,...

b. October 21, 1953 Former secretary of state for Trade and Industry, former European Commissioner. Born in London, a grandson of Lord...

b April 13, 1976 in Krosno, Poland Robert Biedroń is a Polish LGBT activist and politician. He was previously a member of Social Democrac...

b. October 18, 1953 Tim Gill founded the highly successful computer company Quark, Inc. and created the Gill Foundation , one of the firs...

Will Ireland's next president be a gay man? A couple of months ago, with David Norris' campaign apparently dead in the water, it see...

b. September 28, 1969 "Yes I’m gay, and I’m a politician. It’s a descriptor. I don’t think it’s a definer." John A. Pérez is the...

b. September 28, 1969 "Yes I’m gay, and I’m a politician. It’s a descriptor. I don’t think it’s a definer." John A. Pérez is th...

"Hakan Tas – a journalist and gay rights activists was elected to Berlin Parliament from The Left (Die Linke) party. In his intervie...

b. 21 August 1947 In a cabinet reshuffle, President Sarkozy has appointed another openly gay man to the cabinet. ( The " Independent ...

b. 14th June, 1950 In the UK, any public suggestion of homosexuality would once have been a kiss of death: no more. Prime Minister now s...

In an intriguing sign of the times, an openly gay Republican has been elected to represent a ward in Springfield, Illinois. Cory Jobe, an op...

b. 31st March, 1957 Too many politicians fear being outed. For Conservative MP Alan Duncan, outing himself was "the best thing I ever...

From  a perspective from across the Atlantic, it is sometimes hard to believe how far the US still has to go in achieving political and lega...

The UK Conservative party is a mass of contradictions on LGBT issues, as I pointed out in several posts during our general election campaign...

b. May 30, 1950 “Any time there are Parisians fighting for more freedom ... I’m with them.” In 2001 when Bertrand Delanoë was elected ma...