A typical misogynistic view Rahman! It is never the victims fault that they got raped. Only a man would ever think its the woman’s own fault because she could not defend herself.

Why don’t we all just go out and buy guns? A great big semi automatic rifle? Of a machine gun? No, no, wait …. a bazooka, we could all walk round with a freaking great bazooka each!!

Here the police are tasked and monitored to ensure that they represent in the needs and interested of a diverse community and a large part of that tasking is as a result of the expressed wished of the local community.

If the police in your area are not represeting the interests of the gay community sufficiently well, you might want to look at what your neighbours and friends are asking for them to do.

If homophobia and hate crime is an issue in the area you live in, it should be, initially at least, picked up by Safer Neighbourhood Teams, who are largely tasked by Safer Neighbourhoods Ward Panel members made up from the local community. If cycling on the pavement is the issue they are asked to focus on, that’s what they will do, if its crack houses, again that is what they will do. If it is homophobia and hate crime again they do it.

Being as you are from Cornwall and this site has been plagued for I don’t know how long by some vexatious complaintant against the police, bitter and resentful of the treatment his boyfriend received donkey’s years ago, I’m inclined to wonder firstly whether you are that person under yet another new name, and secondly if in fact the problems you are banging on about are real or imaginary.

Police homophobia is still the primary problem in affectively tackling homophobic hate crime…the dozens of police officers I have encountered have attitudes more like that of the BNP towards gays!

Nick that is positive action. Its a step forward in showing that the Tories do actual understand the necessity to accommodate the needs of the gay community. Whether its a press office that has told Boris to or not, he has still been told to.

Boris has kept to several pledges he made, the Tube strike issue is very different, he needs complete public support before tackling dinosaurs like Bob Crow for holding London random.

Boris has made some mistakes and some think he’s a baffoon but at least we knew what we were getting. He is a lot more refreshing than Ken.

He will get my vote.

I know all your points about why Boris is not getting involved in the Tube strikes dispute. If YOU were clever enough you’d realise my point is that he promised he would, as part of the things he said to get people to vote for him. Once in office he has failed to do anything to make good that promise and he cannot ‘ban’ strikles, because there is a law of the land that he is not empowered to change, that permits them if a ballot has been duly taken. This means he LIED in his election pledge, both about his intent and about his ability and that’s the important issue.

The important issue with Section 28 is that when Boris had a chance, he chose discrimination and he chose Section 28. That affected my life as a gay teen going through school at the time and it wasn’t fun. Times may change, but it’s no thanks to people like him that they do, it’s DESPITE them. That’s his track record and that’s what I am going to judge him on.

The fact that he has sat down for a cup of tea and a chat with pinknews.co.uk is because his media advisor has told him it would be good for business. Until I see some positive action I am going to judge him on his actions from the past as they are the only thing that can be proven – what he DID, not what he said he would do or what he would much rather forget.

It’s about the size of a tube of lipstick and it’s cheaper than a fish & chips lunch.

As for alcohol on the Tube I have to ask how many people actually drink it on the Tube anyway, not many.

And people Section 28? Really? how long ago was it? 20? Wasn’t it abolished years ago? Times change, again it seems people want to continue living in the past.

I have known several people who’ve shown various degrees of intolerance until that is they find themselves working within the communities and seeing first hand and have had to change their points of view. Times do change, so do people. We seem to get some stuck on the same outdated agenda of being so stuck in the past they never see a way forward. It holds us the gay community back. I for one plan for a bright future. I hope you’ll all join me.

Isn’t this implying that homophobia is part of human nature? I couldn’t agree with that at all. No way.

Homophobia is not genetic. Children are not born with a hatred towards gay persons; they are taught to hate by the people with whom they come in contact.

Legalize pepper spray. It’s about the size of a tube of lipstick and it’s cheaper than a fish & fish lunch.

As part of his electioneering he made a ‘promise’ to end Tube strikes in London. During last summer’s strikes he was asked exactly how that had gone and he deflected the question. It became clearer why, when it was shown that he had done precisely nothing to deliver on that promise and had not met, nor even talked to the unions. Union leaders said they had asked tomeet him and not even got a response. Broken promise, or downright lie?

He also ‘banned’ alcohol on public transport immediately after he got into office (and spent lots of our money getting big signs printed to make it widely known). Ask any Police officer and they will tell you they have no legal power to prevent anyone drinking on public transport – unless they are comitting some other type of crime or are already drunk and disorderly. Effectively then we have lots of signs, but no actual preventative action. How many of us see people flouting this – and I can’t call it law, cos it isn’t – every day and nothing being done? Waste of time, waste of money.

Two big ‘headline grabbing’ BoJo promises, which sound great but don’t stand up to scrutiny. This ‘anti-homophobe’ noise is just that, a noise to keep him on message and will amount to nothing. At least Ken said what he thought and let others say their piece too, whether it was popular or not, it got the discussion going. At least Ken was out on the frontline with gays and lesbians when Boris was voting for the discrimination Ken was fighting against. Like him or loathe him, you knew where you stood with him and why. With Boris he sees a bandwagon and jumps on and off it as it suits him – you never know what he is going to say, and much less whetehr he’s actually going to deliver any of it.

Personally, a quick interview with a niche gay news outlet is not enough. Show me some concrete results Boris or else I will be forced to believe this is another soundbite promise, rather than a serious conviction, backed with action to make things better.

This very much mirrors the attitude of the local authority …. which has a TORY coalition running it

It is like celebrities and charity. Sometimes they do it for the publicity but what matters is the help.

When Boris dismisses attacks as low level he gives strength to the bigots. Would he dare goto Brixton and call attacks by racist thugs as low level!

I think not