Kezia Dugdale
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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So I thought about it long and hard, as you would expect me to do.
The first thing to say is I'm quite scared just now as an openly gay person in this country, looking at what's happening elsewhere in the world, in other countries.
I feel myself just getting slightly more nervous about holding my wife's hand or being affectionate in public or wondering what other people's reaction to us is going to be.
And I don't like that feeling.
And I think we have to be really careful to think that all progress that we've made in recent times is cemented and absolute and that all we'll ever get is progress.
It's completely possible in this country that things could go backwards.
And there are now a lot of political actors that want to take us backwards.
So a bit of my motivation comes from a place of fear.
And a bit of it comes from a place of hope, knowing that these battles can be won.
And when you look at organisations that have won those battles and made the case and been in those positions of power and influence, Stonewall's right at the front of that.
I mean, the fact that I have the right to marry is down to many people in Stonewall and many other LGBT organisations.
So much good work over the past two or three decades has been driven by people who've played an active role in LGBT charities and campaigning organisations.
And I feel like I owe them a bit of my time and energy to make sure the next generation of young LGBT people have every possible opportunity and every chance of an equal and fair life.
So it's always written up as being outed.
That's maybe like an extreme one word summation of what happened.
It kind of stumbled out in an interview that I did with the Fabians.
And it was a funny time in my life because I was living with a female partner.
Everybody that I knew and worked with knew that I was gay, but I wasn't like openly gay.
And this was the moment.
This was the big dramatic moment.
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