Earlier this year, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran came out as pansexual, becoming the first openly pan MP in the UK - and according to research by Dr Andrew Reynolds, the first openly pansexual parliamentarian in the world.
She writes “I did not come out to be heralded as a trailblazer. But upon coming out, I realised that my public visibility meant a lot to a lot of people. Many people in the LGBT+ community, especially those who fall under the ‘B’, ‘T’ or ‘+’, don’t feel visible to or accepted by the rest of society. These identities are often treated with suspicion or cynicism because people simply don’t know what they are.”
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