Gay Rights Leader Seeks Seat In UK Parliament

April 26, 2007 on 3:48 pm | In Gay News |

tatchell>(London) Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is hoping to become the first Green Party Member of Parliament.

>Tatchell has won the party nomination to run in the riding of Oxford East, currently held by Labor’s Andrew Smith.

>Smith was elected by a slim majority and is considered vulnerable.

>Oxford is considered one of the most likely ridings to elect a Green candidate. Eleven members of the local council are party members.

>It is not Tatchell’s first foray into politics.  Twenty years ago he ran for the Labor Party in London and lost.

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