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Mar 02, 2007
Quickie Link: Leader’s sexuality dragged into election
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By vanrozenheim
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(Montreal, Canada) - A controversial radio host has dragged homosexuality into the open in the Quebec election campaign after declaring Andre Boisclair’s Parti Quebecois looks like a "club of fags." Boisclair, the openly gay PQ leader, angrily declared Thursday that Quebecers will decide whether homosexuality is an issue worthy of consideration. In an interview two weeks ago with a PQ candidate, radio host Louis Champagne of CKRS in the isolated region of Saguenay mused that local factory workers might not like gay candidates and declared the PQ resembles "un club de tapettes." "Tapette" is the French equivalent in Quebec of "fag."
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