Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price recalls childhood struggle with his identity: ‘I couldn’t imagine myself getting there’

Adam Price (Image: Plaid Cymru/Flickr)

Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price has opened up about struggling with his identity as a young gay man growing up in working-class Wales.

The current Member of the Senedd (MS) and former MP spoke to Attitude in the latest issue, out now. During the conversation Price touched on how his political origins intersected with his identity as a gay man.

Adam Price at the Plaid Cymru Spring Conference in 2022 (Image: Plaid Cymru/Flickr)

Price, a miner’s son, was born in Ammanford, south Wales in 1968. The miner’s strikes of the 1980s were a crucible moment for Price, who was invigorated to get into politics due to the injustices of the time. Having first realised he was gay at the age of seven or eight,

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