Reace Mcdonnell, a gay member of the U.K. Youth Parliament, has been suspended after allegedly posting explicit pictures of himself on the Internet, reports Britain's Pink News.
The U.K. newspaper Plymouth Herald calls the website on which Mcdonnell posted the photos a "porn networking site" and reports the photos were discovered by an unidentified mother of a teenage boy whose son recently came out as gay and considered Mcdonnell a role model.
"Reace Mcdonnell, who leads this group and is an apparent role model for young teens in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, is on the Internet," she told the paper. "My son has spoken to me about this Internet site and thinks that this is 'cool.'
Responded Andy Hamflett, chief executive of the U.K. Youth Parliament: "Our primary concern is for the safety of all the young people we work with and we are taking these allegations very seriously."
Mcdonnell, 19, who joined the Youth Parliament in 2007, has said he will campaign for LGBT rights and better sex education.
While Mcdonnell hasn't spoken publicly, this week he posted the following message on his Facebook page: "I would like to remind people not to believe everything you read in the papers. I think its really quite pathetic that you should intringe on my life like this, not only at this pivotal stage, but atall, considering im an adult. My statment is that the allegation is not based on fact and should be discredited and ignored by all who read it [sic]."
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