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CONSERVATIVE LEANINGS: ERIC DUNCAN
Canada’s first openly gay man to be elected a Conservative MP is eager to distance himself from his party’s social hang-ups By Paul Gallant
MAY / JUNE 2020
Many LGBT people see themselves as underdogs and, as a result, tend to see a need for government to rebalance society’s many inequalities. Meaning: they usually lean to the left. Failed US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg – an openly gay Democrat in favour of single-payer health care and of rescinding the ban on trans people in the military, among other progressive policies – was pilloried in some corners of the LGBT media for not being left enough. “I don’t trust him,” wrote my friend RM Vaughan in The Globe and Mail. At the other end of the political spectrum, LGBT conservatives can seem like oddities, their motivations suspicious. 44
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