Coos Huijsen
| Jacobus (Coos) Huijsen | |
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| Member of the Dutch House of Representatives | |
| In office June 20, 1972 – December 7, 1972 |
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| In office March 30, 1976 – June 8, 1977 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | March 20, 1939 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Political party | Christian Historical Union (1972-1976) Group Huijsen (1976-1977) Labour Party (1977) |
Coos Huijsen (born March 20, 1939 in The Hague) is a former Dutch politician, who was a member of the House of Representatives in 1972–1973 and from 1976 to 1977. In his first term in office, he was a member of the Christian Historical Union, which he left because the party would not support the left-leaning Den Uyl cabinet; in his second term, he sat as an independent member under his own banner of Groep-Huijsen.[1]:{{{3}}}
Shortly before leaving the House of Representatives in 1977, Huijsen came out as gay, making him the country's first openly LGBT politician and the first known openly gay member of a national legislature in the world.[1][2]
After leaving parliament, Huijsen worked as a school teacher and director.[1]:{{{3}}} He also switched parties again, becoming a member of the Dutch Labour Party in which he was active until 2000; he left that party because he found the party put too little work into education and gay emancipation.[3] He then pursued a career as a historian, publishing several books on the Dutch monarchy, including:
- De oranjemythe, een postmodern phenomeen ("The Orange Myth, a postmodern phenomenon"),[4]
- Beatrix: De kroon op de republiek ("Beatrix, crown on the republic"; 2005)[5] and
- Nederland en het verhaal van Oranje ("The Netherlands and the story of Orange"; originally a PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2012).
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