[quote]Clarke said someone “wanting to possibly shame” him threatened to expose his personal life, so he made the decision to share the information himself. “If that’s homophobia and the fact that I’m gay in political life, then shame on people that do that,” he told CBC’s Mainstreet Cape Breton. Clarke is expected to announce on Saturday that he will seek the leadership of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party. He said he wanted to come out before then. “I’m not going to go forward and announce my intentions about the Progressive Conservative Party leadership race having people think that they are going to shame me, or hold something over me, or make it negative that, in this day and age, that being gay is somehow a bad thing,” he said. Added Clarke: “I hope on Saturday anyone that’s coming to hear me is there to support me as Cecil the politician and the fact that I am gay, if they have a problem with that as a Progressive Conservative, then they’re not my Progressive Conservative of today.”
Nova Scotia mayor comes out as gay as he is threatened with being outed
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 9, 2018 8:55 PM |
Ew he's a Conservative.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 2, 2018 3:03 PM |
Well he was a closet-case, so it fits r1.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 2, 2018 3:11 PM |
Ewwww. Can't fuck a conservative. Can't fuck anyone named Cecil.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 2, 2018 3:18 PM |
"...they are going to shame me." ?? Mr. Mayor, you are just another dishonest coward, and apparently have been your entire adult life. You've shamed yourself more than anbody else could have.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 2, 2018 3:25 PM |
Fuck me Cecil..
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 2, 2018 3:27 PM |
What kind of loser comes out only after being threatened to be outed?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 2, 2018 3:39 PM |
I don't know anything about Cape Breton, but I was in Halifax in September and it seemed quite gay-friendly.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 2, 2018 3:40 PM |
Progressive conservatives are not the same as conservatives in the US , tend to be socially liberal. The conservative party of Canada less so.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 2, 2018 3:44 PM |
It was an open secret. I've heard his partner is Bruce Frisko, but I'm not sure that's true.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 2, 2018 3:48 PM |
I want him in me, deeply
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 2, 2018 5:27 PM |
Canadian Conservative party is NOTHING like the US Republican party.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 2, 2018 5:37 PM |
R13 Actually they're not that different. Harper fought against gay marriage for years, even tried to repeal the gay marriage law.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 2, 2018 5:38 PM |
What is a Progressive Conservative? It seems like a contradiction to American ears, but I know conservative parties in other countries are NOTHING like the batshit religious lunacy we have in the US.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 2, 2018 5:45 PM |
r15, you probably shouldn't ask that question because you will get responses from the extreme left that can't see beyond their noses
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 2, 2018 5:48 PM |
[quote] What is a Progressive Conservative?
It means you are left on social issues (support marriage equality, pro-choice, open to immigration) but a fiscal conservative (low taxes, balanced budgets, fiscal prudence, less government).
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 2, 2018 7:18 PM |
Well I guess he can marry his partner now. Not sure what that gets you in Canada except assets upon death since healthcare is already taken care of for you.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 2, 2018 7:29 PM |
r6 - I believe the complete line would be "Fuck me Cecil...briskly and efficiently".
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 2, 2018 7:34 PM |
A progressive conservative, technically happened with the progressive farmer's party merged with the conservative party in the early part of the last century. the Progressives believed that the government should have a role to play in people's lives. Kind of like the NDP party in Canada but still wanted a free market.
The federal conservative party was pretty progressive itself until the Reform party essentially took it over in the 90s and Stephen harper took it over, then it became somewhat right wing.
the progressive conservative party still exists to some extent in the provincial versions of the conservative party especially on the east coast where political parties are less diametrically opposite. and where people are much more willing to have government intervention in their lives.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 2, 2018 8:05 PM |
Anyone living in Nova Soctia? How is it? Halifax looks nice.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 9, 2018 8:21 PM |
[Quote]Harper fought against gay marriage for years, even tried to repeal* the gay marriage law.
*No, he didn't.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 9, 2018 8:37 PM |
IF he really is gay he needs to address the eyebrow issue
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 9, 2018 8:55 PM |