"I have always understood up here [points to head] why representation is important, but watching her was the first time I felt in my gut where I was suddenly looking at somebody going oh ‘you’re like me’.“She’s my favourite, my lesbian heroine.
We previously reported how the SNP’s deputy Westminster leader said she was “incredibly hurt” by Kate Forbes’s comments on gay marriage. As she kicked off her campaign earlier this week to succeed Nicola Sturgeon, Ms Forbes said she would not have voted in favour of legislation to legalise gay marriage in 2014 had she been an MSP at the time.
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