UK's Northern Ireland Secretary Stuns Labour Conference With Unexpected Personal Revelation

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UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Bryant delivered an unexpectedly viral address to the Labour Party conference on Tuesday, momentarily departing from his script to disclose that he was "ever so slightly homosexual" after referencing a BBC headline that had described him as "colourful" — before joking that audiences were "really not meant to laugh at somebody saying that they're gay in this day and age," a quip that was met with applause rather than the laughter he appeared to anticipate. The light-hearted moment came against the backdrop of a serious political crisis, with Bryant announcing he was cutting short his conference appearance to fly back to Belfast the same afternoon to manage the Drumcree parade standoff — the first time in nearly 30 years that the Parades Commission had granted permission for a march of Protestant Orangemen along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, sparking a three-day standoff and serious disorder. Bryant had intended to use

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