Australia’s New Deputy Prime Minister Once Wrote A Shocking Anti-LGBTQ Rant

Australia’s new deputy prime minister is being called on to “heal the wounds” left by a shocking anti-LGBTQI rant he penned 25 years ago.

Michael McCormack, 53, on Monday took up the post as Australia’s new deputy prime minister after the previous occupant, Barnaby Joyce, quit following weeks of controversy over his affair with a former staffer.

In 1993 McCormack, then a newspaper editor, penned an editorial in Wagga Wagga’s Daily Advertiser describing gay/lesbian persons as “sordid” and blaming them for AIDS. McCormack, who is also Australia’s Veterans’ Affairs Minister, has apologized throughout his career for the article.



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