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Scott Brison to tie knot in same-sex ceremony
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Aug 10, 2007 03:42pm |
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| News Date | Friday, August 10, 2007 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OTTAWA -- Liberal MP Scott Brison is set to become the first federal politician to tie the knot in a same-sex ceremony since MPs made gay marriage the law of the land just over two years ago.
Brison, 40, will marry partner Maxime St. Pierre next Saturday in his Kings-Hants riding, a bucolic corner of Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.
He follows Ontario cabinet minister George Smitherman in smashing one of elected politics' last social taboos. Smitherman exchanged vows last week with partner Christopher Peloso at a northern Ontario resort.
Having a spouse has traditionally been considered an important asset on the hustings -- but not one of the same sex.
Only in the last decade have many gay and lesbian politicians begun publicly acknowledging their sexual orientation.
Brison, a former Progressive Conservative party and Liberal party leadership hopeful, came out in 2002 and became Canada's first openly gay cabinet minister in 2004. But he's never defined his political persona around the issue and has closely guarded his private life. |
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