Scotland is the only country in the world where most party leaders identify as LGBT. There’s still room for improvement – but it’s not the country I left in the 70sThe news that the Scottish Labour leader,Kezia Dugdale, has a female partner caused scarcely a ripple up here in Scotland. So unremarkable was it that nobody mentioned it to me until two days after the “revelation” itself.We’re now the only country in the world where the majority of our party leaders identify as LGBT and there’s nearly a feeling of “so what?” about it. If I needed any further affirmation that my choice to return to Scotland two years ago was the suitable one, and this was it.
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Source: theguardian.com