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Colquhoun campaigned for women’s rights in Britain’s male-dominated Parliament. But her political career came to an end when she was outed as a lesbian.
Crusading Labour politician who was the first openly gay MP
Maureen Colquhoun, fearless campaigning Left-winger who was Britain’s first ‘out’ lesbian MP – obituary Combative and voluble, in 1976 she left her husband for the woman with whom she spent the rest of her life, but lost her seat in 1979 3 February 2021 • 11:29am Maureen Colquhoun (1977): she spoke out for an end to first-class rail travel, for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland, and on behalf of British shoemakers, among many other issues Credit: ITN/Shutterstock Maureen Colquhoun, who has died aged 92, was a warm and tempestuous Labour Left-winger, an irrepressible enthusias...
Maureen Colquhoun: Tributes paid as first openly lesbian MP dies aged 92 Colin Drury © Provided by The Independent Tributes have been paid to Maureen Colquhoun, the UK's first openly lesbian MP, who has died at the age of 92. The former Labour politician represented Northampton North between 1974 and 1979, and was a prominent campaigner on gender balance, abortion rights and protection for prostitutes. After it was revealed by the Daily Mail she was living with a female journalist in 1977, Colquhoun refused to accept the prejudice she found aimed at her. In a scathing artic...