A SHADOW Cabinet minister has told how his fight against anti-gay laws triggered his interest in politics.
Steve Reed said he came out when there was a lot of fear around being gay due to the AIDS crisis and Section 28, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by schools and councils.
The 60-year-old Labour MP was speaking on Party Games, a new Mirror YouTube podcast where politicians chat to us about their childhood and their life as an MP over a fun children's game - in this case Buckaroo!.
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