Re: the first name of Tempy
It may be that Europeans are a lot less tight-assed (no pun intended... well, maybe not) about a lot of things that send Mainstream America into a tizzy. So, perhaps gays in Europe don't really feel a need to align themselves with liberal politics in order to have the issues which concern them even have a chance at getting addressed?
Of my gay friends and acquaintances, two whom I would describe as being somewhat conservative are also both European -- and one of these two is a newspaper editor (here in the U.S.).
-- Nanaea