Talk:Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury

Coming out

It crosses my mind that MP Maureen Colquhoun effectively announced her lesbianism in 1976, and this fact is overlooked when Chris Smith is described as the first openly gay MP. --Dovea 13:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Mmm - it seems she took a paper to court over invasion of privacy, which is hardly open... [1] Evercat 20:50, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

He may have been the first to voluntarily come out, I think Maureen Colquhoun was effectively outed by the press, as in a sense was Jeremy Thorpe, but my memories are hazy. PatGallacher (talk) 14:18, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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