Liberal MP Scott Brison is set to become the first federal politician to tie the knot in a same-sex ceremony since MPs made gay marriage the law of the land just over two years ago.

Brison, 40, will marry partner Maxime St. Pierre next Saturday in his Kings-Hants riding, a bucolic corner of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.

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Brison, a former Progressive Conservative party and Liberal party leadership hopeful, came out in 2002 and became Canada’s first openly gay cabinet minister in 2004. But he’s never defined his political persona around the issue and has closely guarded his private life.

In Brison’s words, he is “not a gay politician, but a politician who happens to be gay.”

After his engagement to St. Pierre was first reported by The Canadian Press in October 2005, Brison played down the social significance.

“I’m looking forward to the day when the idea of a gay or lesbian politician getting married is not a story at all,” he said at the time.

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But in that same autumn 2005 interview, Brison made it clear he’s been deeply affected by the steady reminders of young Canadians who tell him he has served as a role model, however reluctant. “Sometimes when somebody can express something like that to you, that you’ve made a difference in terms of their confidence or their life -- not based on something that you’ve really done, just by the fact that you’re there -- I don’t think I can articulate how that makes me feel,” said Brison.

“I’m looking forward to the day when the idea of a gay or lesbian politician getting married is not a story at all,” he said at the time.

Or, as Feral referrs to such people, “a fake straight”.

“I’m looking forward to the day when the idea of a gay or lesbian politician getting married is not a story at all,” he said at the time.