[h=3]Sexuality[/h]

Stephen Fry with
Stonewall marchers at
WorldPride 2012 in London.
Fry struggled to keep his homosexuality
secret during his teenage years at
public school, and by his own account
did not engage in sexual activity for 16 years from 1979 until 1995.[SUP]
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When asked when he first acknowledged his
sexuality, Fry quipped: "I suppose it all began when I came out of the womb. I looked back up at my mother and thought to myself, 'That's the last time I'm going up one of those'".[SUP]
[129][/SUP] Fry was in a 15-year relationship with Daniel Cohen, which ended in 2010.[SUP]
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[h=3]Politics[/h] Fry was an active supporter of the
Labour Party for many years and appeared in a
party political broadcast on its behalf with
Hugh Laurie and
Michelle Collins in November 1993. He did not vote in the
2005 General Election because of the stance of both the Labour and
Conservative parties with regard to the
Iraq War. Despite his praise of the
Blair/
Brown government's work on social reform, Fry has been critical of the Labour Party's "
Third Way" concept. Fry appeared in literature to support changing the British electoral system from
first-past-the-post to
alternative vote for electing Members of Parliament to the
House of Commons in the
Alternative Vote referendum in 2011.[SUP]
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On 30 April 2008, Fry signed an open letter, published in
The Guardian newspaper by some well-known Jewish personalities, stating their opposition to celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of
Israel.[SUP]
[132][/SUP] Furthermore, he is a signatory member of the British
Jews for Justice for Palestinians organisation, which campaigns for
Palestinian rights.[SUP]
[133][/SUP] Fry was among over 100 signatories to a statement published by
Sense About Science on 4 June 2009, condemning British
libel laws and their use to "severely curtail the right to free speech on a matter of public interest".[SUP]
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On 7 August 2013, Fry published an "Open Letter to David Cameron and the IOC"[SUP]
[135][/SUP] calling for a boycott of the
2014 Winter Olympics in
Sochi, due to concerns over the
state-sanctioned persecution of LGBT persons in Russia.
David Cameron however stated on Twitter he believed "we can better challenge prejudice as we attend, rather than boycotting the Winter Olympics".[SUP]
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[137][/SUP] Adrian Hilton, writing in the
Daily Mail, criticised Fry for not calling for a boycott of all Russian performing arts.[SUP]
[138][/SUP] Fry responded by accusing the
Daily Mail of being "against progress, the liberalising of attitudes, modern art and strangers (whether by race, gender or sexuality)".[SUP]
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