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A junior minister has given a deeply personal interview to a gay publication in which he discusses coming out, his mother's struggle with alcoholism and his humiliation at the hands of a tabloid newspaper. Chris Bryant, the Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, was promoted by Gordon Brown last year, his first ministerial job after 11 years as a Labour MP. In his first interview with the gay press, Mr Byrant told Attitude magazine that he met his boyfriend, Jared, while out campaigning in Soho with then-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone last April. The couple are planning to move in together. In 2003 the tabloid press published pictures of Mr Bryant posing in his underwear, which they procured from his Gaydar profile, alongside transcripts of sexually explicit messages he sent to other site users. In his exclusive interview with Attitude he described the experience as "very, very, very, very unpleasant." |
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