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Single Member District MPs Lower House (First Past the Post, Two Round System and constituency MPs in MMP systems)

st DISTRICT MPs Out/Not out when first elected Party District First Majority 1 Elected elected Australia Trent Zimmerman Out Liberal North Sydney 2015

Canada Not Out (1988) NDP (Burnaby-Douglas) 1979 3% Réal Ménard Not Out (1994) BQ Hochelaga 1993 36% Not Out (2001) NDP Vancouver East 1997 5% Not Out (2002) Liberal Kings-Hants 1997 6% Bill Siksay Out NDP Burnaby-Douglas 2004 2% Not Out (2004) Liberal Davenport 2004 17% Raymond Gravel Out BQ Repentigny 2006 44% Rob Oliphant Out Liberal Don Valley West 2008 5% Out NDP Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca 2011 0.5% Danny Morin Out NDP Chicoutimi-Le Fjord 2011 9% Philip Toone Out NDP Gaspesie-Iles-de-la-Madeleine 2011 3% Craig Scott Out NDP Toronto-Danforth 2012 31% Sheri Benson Out NDP Saskatoon West 2015 7% Seamus O’Regan Out Liberal St. John's South-Mount Pearl 2015 21% Randy Boissonnault Out Liberal Edmonton Center 2015 2% France André Labarrère Not Out (1998) Socialist Pyrénées-Atlantiques 1967 ** Franck Riester Not Out (2011) UMP Seine-et-Marne 2007 18% Stefan Kaufmann Out CDU Stuttgart I 2009 5%

New Georgina Beyer Out Labour Wairarapa 1999 9% Zealand Out Labour 1996 2% Chris Carter Out Labour Te Atatu 1993 10% Out Labour Wellington Central 2008 5% Out Labour Manurewa 2011 31% Out Labour Ikaroa-Rāwhiti 2013 15% USA Gerry Studds Not Out (1983) Democrat Mass 10 1973 0.5% Barney Frank Not Out (1987) Democrat Mass 4 1982 20% Tammy Baldwin Out Democrat Wisconsin 2 1998 6% Jared Polis Out Democrat Colorado 2 2008 28% David Cicilline Out Democrat Rhode Island 1 2010 6%

14 Steve Gunderson Not Out (1994) Republican Wisconsin 3 1980 2% Jim Kolbe Not Out (1996) Republican Arizona 8 1984 3% Sean Patrick Maloney Out Democrat New York 18 2012 4% Kyrsten Sinema Out Democrat Arizona 9 2012 1% Mark Pocan Out Democrat Wisconsin 2 2012 36% Mark Takano Out Democrat California 41 2012 12% Mike Machaud Not Out (2013) Democrat Maine 2 2003 4% United Maureen Colquhoun Not Out (1977) Labour Northampton North 1974 3% Kingdom Michael Brown Not Out (1994) Conservative Brigg and Scunthorpe 1979 1% Chris Smith Not Out (1984) Labour Islington South and Finsbury 1983 1% Clive Betts Not Out (2003) Labour Sheffield Attercliffe 1992 31% David Borrow Not Out (1998) Labour South Ribble 1997 9% Out Labour Exeter 1997 19% Nick Brown Not Out (1998) Labour Newcastle East 1983 18% Out Labour Rhondda 2001 47% Not Out (1997) Labour Wallasey 1992 7% Nick Herbert Out Conservative Arundel & S. Down 2005 23% Simon Hughes Not Out (2006) LibDem Southwark & 1983 32% Gordon Marsden Not Out (1998) Labour South 1997 23% Not Out (2006) LibDem Winchester 1997 0% Out Carmarthen East 2001 7% Alan Duncan Not Out (2002) Conservative Rutland and Melton 1992 40% Stephen Williams Out LibDem Bristol West 2005 9% Gregory Barker Not Out (2007) Conservative Bexhill and Battle 2001 23% Nigel Evans Not Out (2010) Conservative 1992 12% Not Out (2010) Conservative 1997 16% Margot James Out Conservative 2010 11% Iain Stewart Out Conservative Milton Keynes South 2010 9% Out Conservative Grantham and Stanford 2010 28% Out Conservative and Golders Green 2010 12% Out Conservative 2010 3% Conor Burns Out Conservative Bournemouth West 2010 13% Eric Ollerenshaw Out Conservative Lancaster and Fleetwood 2010 1% Out Labour Enfield Southgate 1997 3% Stephen Twigg Out Labour Liverpool and West Derby 2010 50% Stephen Gilbert Out LibDem St. Austell and Newquay 2010 3% Not Out (2010) LibDem Yeovil 2001 8%

15 Not Out (2000) Labour Hartlepool 1992 38% David Cairns Out Labour Greenock and Inverclyde 2001 35% Matthew Parris Not Out (1984) Conservative West Derbyshire 1979 25% Out Labour Croydon North 2012 48% David Kawczynski Not Out (2013) Conservative Shrewsbury and Atcham 2005 4% Ron Davies Not Out (1999) Labour Caerphilly 1992 45% Stephen Doughty Not Out (2015) Labour South and Penarth 2012 27% Ben Howlett Out Conservative Bath 2015 8% Stuart McDonald Out SNP Cumbernauld, Kilsyth, Kirkintilloch 2015 30% Stewart McDonald Out SNP South 2015 25% Martin Doherty Out SNP West Dunbartonshire 2015 28% Out SNP East Dunbartonshire 2015 4% Out SNP South West 2015 16% Peter Kyle Out Labour Hove 2015 2% Out Labour Ilford North 2015 1% Out SNP and Hamilton East 2015 18% Catherine Smith Out Labour Lancaster and Fleetwood 2015 3% Out Labour Merthyr Tydfil 2015 35% Out SNP Paisley and South 2015 12% Not Out (2015) Conervative Bognor Regis and 1997 16%

* UK there have been: 20 Labour, 17 Tories, 5 Liberal Democrats, 7 SNP, 1 Plaid Cymru.

16 LGBT Upper House Members 1977-2015

Name Years in Party Elected/ office Affiliation Appointed Australia Bob Brown 1996-2012 Green Elected Brian Andrew Greig 1999-2005 Democrats Elected Penny Wong 2002- Labor Elected Louise Pratt 2008- Labor Elected Dean Smith 2012-2013 Liberal Elected Janet Smith 2014- Green Elected Argentina Osvaldo López 2011- Fresh Encounter Appointed Belgium Petra de Sutter 2014- Green Appointed Canada Laurier LaPierre 2001-2004 Liberal Appointed Nancy Ruth 2005- Conservative Appointed Colombia Claudia Lopez 2014- Green Elected Czech Republic Vaclav Fischer 1999-2002 Independent Elected Germany Klaus Wowereit 2001-2002 Social Democrat Appointed France Corinne Bouchon Green Elected

Luc Carvounas 2011 Socialist Elected Italy Franco Zeffirelli 1994-2001 Forza Italia Appointed Emilio Colombo 2003-2013 UDC Appointed Paolo Galimberti 2013- PoF Elected Sergio Logiudice 2013- Democratic Elected Ireland David Norris 1987- Independent Elected Colm O'Gorman 2007 Progressive Dems Appointed Katherine Zappone 2011- Independent Appointed Netherlands Gerard Schouw 2003-2010 D66 Elected (Indirect)

17 Japan Kanako Otsuji 2013 Democratic Appointed Spain Jerónimo Saavedra 1996-2003 PSOE Elected Acevedo UK 3rd Baron Montagu of 1945-2015 Conservative Inherited Beaulieu 2nd Viscount 1958-1981 Independent Inherited Maugham Baron Smith of 2005- Labour Appointed Finsbury Baron Alli 1998- Labour Appointed Rt. Hon Lord Justice 2008- Judiciary Appointed Etherton Baron Browne of 2001- Independent Appointed Madingley Baroness Stedman- 2010- Conservative Appointed Scott Baron Black of 2010- Conservative Appointed Brentwood Baron Gold of 2010- Conservative Appointed Westcliffe-on-Sea Baron Glendonbrook 2011- Conservative Appointed of Bowdon Baron Collins of 2011- Labour Appointed Highbury Baroness Barker 1999- Lib Dem Appointed Lord Cashman 2014- Labour Appointed Lord Oates 2015- Lib Dem Appointed Lord Livermore 2015- Labour Appointed Lord Barker 2015- Conservative Appointed Lord Hayward 2015- Conservative Appointed

18 Lord Gilbert 2015- Conservative Appointed USA Tammy Baldwin 2012- Democrat Elected Switzerland Claude Janiak 2007- Social Democrat Elected

19 LGBT Ministers 1977-2015

Name Years in Cabinet Position office Australia Penny Wong 2007- Climate Change 2010-2013 Finance and Belgium Elio di Rupo 2011- Prime Minister Canada Scott Brison 2004-2006 Public Works Colombia Gina Parody 2014- Education

Cecilia Alvarez 2014- Commerce Czech Republic Gustáv Slamečka 2009-2010 Transport Denmark Uffe Elbæk 2011-2012 Culture Mogens Jensen 2014- Trade Ecuador Carina Mafla 2012- Public Health Finland Pekka Haavisto* 1995-1999 Environment France Roger Karoutchi 2007-2009 Parliamentary Relations Frederic Mitterrand 2009-2011 Culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon 2002-2004 Culture Germany Guido Westerwelle 2009-2013 Foreign Minister Barbara Hendricks 2013- Environment Hungary Gábor Szetey 2006-2008 Human resources Iceland Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir 2007-2009 Social Affairs 2009-2014 Prime Minister Ireland Leo Varadkar 2014- Health 2011-2014 Transport & Tourism Isle of Man Allan Bell 2015- Chief Minister Italy Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio 2000-2001 Agriculture 2006-2008 Environment Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs 2011- Foreign Affairs

20 Luxembourg Etienne Schneider 2012-13 Economy and Foreign Trade 2013- Deputy Prime Minister Xavier Bettel 2013- Prime Minister Netherlands Joop Wijn 2002-03 Economic Affairs 2006-07 Finance Gerda Verberg 2007- Agriculture, Nature and Food Jan Kees de Jager 2010-2012 Finance New Zealand Chris Carter 2004-2005 Housing 2005-2007 Building 2007-2008 Education Maryan Street 2007-2008 Housing Chris Finlayson 2008- Attorney General 2008- Arts and Culture Norway Per-Kristian Foss 2001-2005 Finance 2002 Acting PM Høie 2013 Health Knut Olav Åmås 2013- Culture & Church Anne Holt 1996-1997 Justice Puerto Rico Alberto Lastra Power 2015- Housing South Africa Lynne Brown 2014- Public Enterprises Sweden Tobias Billström 2006- Migration Andreas Carlgren 2006- Environment Switzerland Claude Janiak 2004-2005 President UK Chris Smith 1997-2001 Culture Peter Mandelson 1998-1999 Trade & Industry 1999-2001 2008-2009 Business Nick Brown 1998-2001 Agriculture Ben Bradshaw 2009-2010 Culture, Media, Sport

21 David Laws 2010-2012 Chief Secretary to Treasury 2012-2015 Schools Nick Gibb 2010-2012 Schools 2015-

NB: Jeronimo Saavedra Acevedo was the Spanish Minister of Public Administration 1993-1995 and Minister of Education and Science 1995-1996, but did not come out until 2000. In 2007 he was elected mayor of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Torben Lund, Health Minister in Denmark 1993-1994 came out while a member of parliament in 1998. *Not out during Ministerial position.

22 LGBT MEMBERS OF THE

Name Out/Not Out - Years in office Party Affiliation when First elected (out) Austria (1) Ulrike Lunacek (L) Out 2009- Green Party Denmark (1) Torben Lund (G) Out 1999-2004 Social Democrats France (2) Steeve Briois (G) Out 2014- National Front Michel Teychenné (G) Out 2008-2009 Socialist Party Italy (3) Gianni Vattimo (G) Out 1999- Liberals Daniele Viotti (G) Out ??? Democratic Party Rosario Crocetta (G) Out 2009-2014 Netherlands (3) Herman Verbeek (G) Out 1989- PPR Dennis de Jong (G) Out 2009- Socialist Party Wim van der Camp (G) Out 2009- CDA Germany (3) Lissy Gröner (L) Out 1989- Social Democrats Cornelia Ernst (L) Not Out (??) 2009- Left Party Holger Krahmer (G) Out 2004- Free Democrats Spain (1) José María Mendiluce Pereiro (G) Not Out (2003) 1999-2004 PSOE Sweden (2) Malin Björk (L) Out 2014- Left Party Fredrick Federley (G) Out 2014- Center Party UK (5) Michael Cashman (G) Out 1999-2014 Labour Party Seb Dance (G) Out 2014- Labour Party (G) Out 2004- SNP Nikki Sinclair (T) Out 2009-2014 UKIP David Coburn (G) Out 2014- UKIP

23 LGBT STATE LEADERS: PREMIERS/GOVERNORS

Name Out/Not Out -when State/Province Years in Party Affiliation First elected (out) office Canada (2) Wade MacLauchlan (G) Out Prince Edward Is. 2015- Liberal Kathleen Wynne (L) Out 2014- Liberal South Africa (1) Lynne Brown (L) Out Western Cape 2008-9 ANC

24 LGBT SUB-NATIONAL COUNTRY/REGIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS

SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

Name Out/Not Out - Years in office Party Affiliation when First elected (out) Iain Smith Out 1999-2011 LibDem Margaret Smith Out 1999-2011 LibDem Patrick Harvey Out 2003- Green Party Joe FitzPatrick Out 2007- SNP Out 2011- SNP Out 2011-2016 SNP Kevin Stewart Out 2011- SNP Out 2011- SNP Out 2011- Conservative Party

WELSH ASSEMBLY

Name Out/Not Out - Years in office Party Affiliation when First elected (out) Ron Davies (B) Out 1999-2003 Labour Party

25 HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Name Out/Not Out - Years in office Party Affiliation when First elected (out) Raymond Chan Chi-chuen Out 2012- People Power

ARUBA SENATE

Name Out/Not Out - Years in office Party Affiliation when First elected (out) Desiree Croes Out 2011- AVP

MAYORS (TBC)

Paris, France Berlin, Germany Houston, USA Seattle, USA Chapel Hill, USA Webster NC USA Franklinton NC USA Carrboro NC USA Zurich, Switzerland Fresnillo, Mexico Benjamin Medrano 2013-

26 LGBT Breakdown (National MPs in office)

1983 1988 1998 2003 2008 2011 2013 2015

Gay 3 6 26 42 59 77 85

Lesbian 3 1 12 14 15 19 21

Trans 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

Bisexual 0 0 0 3 5 4 6

Total 6 7 38 60 80 101 113

NB: Self identification by legislator.

27 Political Ideology and LGBT MPs

1983 1988 1998 2003 2008 2011 2013 2015 Communist 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 Green 0 1 2 8 11 12 12 Lab/Social Dem/Socialist 1 4 23 33 32 41 46 Liberal/Center 1 1 8 11 23 25 28 Ethno-Nationalist 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 Conservative/Right 3 1 5 5 9 22 26 Total 6 7 38 60 80 101 113

Electoral Systems and LGBT MPs

1983 1988 1998 2003 2008 2011 2013 2015 FPTP 2 3 11 18 25 33 37 List PR 4 2 15 27 33 41 48 MMP 0 1 11 15 21 23 23 Parallel 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 STV 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 TRS 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 Total 6 7 38 60 80 101 113

NB: For definitions see Reynolds, Andrew, Ben Reilly and Andrew Ellis. The New International IDEA Handbook of Election System Design. Stockholm: International IDEA, 2007.

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