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[[File:Gordon Marsden.jpg|thumb|Gordon Marsden]]''Gordon Marsden, born 1953, is a [[Labour]] politician. He has been MP for [[Blackpool]] South since 1997.

Gordon Marsden was educated at Stockport Grammar School, an independent school in the city of [[Stockport]] in Cheshire, and [[New College, Oxford]]. He went on to postgraduate studies at the Warburg Institute (part of the [[University of London]]) and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, being a Kennedy Scholar in Politics and International Relations.

He came out publicly as gay during the same week as [[David Borrow]] in June, 1998.

In 2009 he was listed at number 43 in the ''[[Pink News]]'' list of [[50 most powerful 2009|50 most powerful gay, lesbian and bisexual people in British politics]]. The citation said:
:"A strong advocate for the tradition British seaside town, Gordon Marsden came out in 1998 ahead of a debate on the age of consent. A former Open University tutor and editor of ''History Today'' magazine, he represents Blackpool South."<ref>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/03/06/the-50-most-powerful-gay-lesbian-and-bisexual-people-in-british-politics/</ref>

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