Key hot for Brad Pitt

Unlike Kevin Rudd, John Key has actually answered the famous tongue-in-cheek “Who would you turn gay for” question and nominated Brad Pitt.

On things gay, Rodney Hide has an interesting interview with gaynz.com on his views:

I describe myself as a classical liberal, which means I believe in the paramount freedom of the individual, and that it’s Government’s job simply to uphold that liberty and protect it from the bullies.” …

Nice.

Asked by media, including GayNZ.com, if there was any truth to Peters’ veiled ‘accusation’ in the House that Hide is not heterosexual, Hide famously answered “Not yet,”

Heh.

Where does ACT stand on adoption by same-sex couples, the subject of a Bill hovering on the edges of the House? “I’ve got no problem with gay people adopting kids”, he says. “I’ve got a number of gay friends and I’d rather some of them were looking after my son than a lot of my heterosexual ones.”

Yep.

UPDATE: On gay issues, this story from Austria is quite interesting. It has just been revealed that Jorg Haider, who died in a car crash last week, is gay and was in a relationship with his sucessor as party leader. They led the right-wing Alliance for the Future of Austria.

What I find interesting is that two of the most high profile and sucessful nationalistic and anti-immigration leaders in Europe were both gay – Haider and Pim Fortuyn. Fortuyn was openly gay though while Haider was sceretly bisexual – he had a wife and children.