英國資深政治家正式宣佈出櫃!

David Mundell, Conservative British MP and Secretary of State for Scotland, came out as gay in an open letter posted on his website Thursday.

英國保守黨議員和蘇格蘭國務卿戴維·芒德爾，週四在個人網站上發佈一封公開信，承認自己是同性戀。

The father of three and Scotland's only Tory MP titled his message: "New Year, New Start!", writing that coming out was one of the most important decisions of his life:

這位蘇格蘭唯一的保守黨議員，也是三個孩子的父親的信件標題爲：“新年新開始！”。之後，他將這一生最重要的決定寫了出來：

"Having taken one of the most important decisions of my life and resolved to come out publicly as gay in 2016, I just want to get on with it."

"我已經做出了我一生中最重要的決定之一，那就是在2016年公開宣佈我的性取向爲男性，我想以這樣一種身份繼續好好生活。"

Mundell's sudden announcement made waves in Britain.

芒德爾突然"出櫃"的消息已經在英國掀起了波瀾。

Of the 650 members of Britain's House of Commons, 34 are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or and transgender (LGBT) - about 5.2% of the total.

截至目前，英國下議院的650名議員中已有34位公開宣佈爲LGBT(女同、男同、雙性戀、變性者)，佔比約爲5.2%。

It may be the most LGBT legislature in the world.

英國議會可能是世界上LGBT最多的立法機構。