Crispin Blunt: A Powerful And Moving Coming Out Story I'm Sure We Can All Relate To

After he was elected to parliament in 1997, Blunt took interest in a bill on lowering the gay age of consent from age 18 to 16 — the same as the legal age of consent for heterosexuals in the U.K.
Opposing the law, which ultimately passed in 2000, he said during debate, “It is also clear that there is a much greater strand of homosexuality than of heterosexuality which depends for its gratification on the exploitation of youth.” That charge was met with jeers. In particular, Blunt was dressed down by the Labour Party’s Ben Bradshaw, one of the first openly gay MPs in the country, who intervened and said, “You can’t choose your sexuality.”
“From that moment, the penny started to drop with me,” Blunt now says. “The edifice I had created around myself over the past 30 years, from the age of 13 onwards, began to crack. It was no longer illegal [to be gay] in my previous profession, the military. It was no longer impossible to pursue a political career if you were out. It was from that debate that I had begun to reevaluate myself. What I said in 1998 was based around the level of control I suppose I created around myself.”

Crispin Blunt, Conservative Prisons Minister, in his first homo interview since he came out, almost exactly a year ago.
But why is he giving it to the US magazine, Advocate online?
Maybe no-one over here bothered to ask?
Fagburn's favourite line? "I’ve ridden on the back of other people who have fought, and I’m extremely conscious of that."
Ahem.