Comments on: Gay play nominated for Fringe theatre award

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:25:00 +0000

Yeah, great video there Malcolm, just a cheap-ass advertisement for your books and art. Well done on demeaning a valid argument for tolerance in the police force with your selfish need to get your crap some air time.

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By: Neville

Neville — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:46:00 +0000

Good gracious! What an appalling, semi-literate man Lloyd Danley is!

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By: Malcolm Lidbury

Malcolm Lidbury — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:49:00 +0000

Cornwall Police still ENDEMICALLY HOMOPHOBIC, they have not yet grasped homosexuality has been decriminalised.Watch the video

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By: apYrs

apYrs — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:31:00 +0000

Political asylkum – no question (after all politicians may need it some time). Colour – probably.Sexuality in terms of an infamous homophobic homicidal country – oh damn, a court has stopped us sending this lesbain back.What sort of inhumane rules infest our legal system, and what soret of people enforce it?!

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By: Dominick J. Di Noto

Dominick J. Di Noto — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:24:00 +0000

Irainian Lesbian Deportation Delayed!What a shame that it even is Thought to send this woman back to Iran to her certain death!This would be as heinous as Israel Stopping those Durfar Refugees refuge!When drowning people are asking for help you don't throw them a pail of water!!!

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By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:22:00 +0000

This is or should be a national disgrace. If this young woman had sought asylum because she were Jewish fleeing persecution, I'm sure our government would never deport her back to an oppressive regime. It only goes to show that homphobia is the last vestige of hatred in our society. If this woman is executed, then our government will be complicit in genocide. So much for equality. Note how none of the mainstream religious denominations are not getting involved. I'm totally disgusted with our government.Robert, ex-pat Brit.

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By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:17:00 +0000

Lloyd: First of all, learn the difference between the words accept and except. They're not interchangeable. I love excepting straights and I'm going to keep at it.Newsflash: gay people are fully developed, EQUAL citizens, and it isn't up to you whether to accept us or not. Your acceptance is immaterial since you'er not above us in any regard. Given your odd use of the word except "you people" (since you like that phrase) seem to be a bit beneath us where vocabulary is concerned.Newsflash 2: You are making my point FOR me and I hope everybody else notices. When gays are not grateful for your acceptance you all get petulant. Evidently you and Audrey Vachon think that we queers are just fine as long as we entertain straight chicks and don't consider our feelings as important as yours.Newsflash 3: I'm proud as hell to be queer, was it supposed to be an insult? I don't get it.

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By: Lloyd Danley

Lloyd Danley — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:51:00 +0000

Wait, let me get this slightly crooked. hetero's should not present themselves to the "elite" homo! Who are you to decide who is deserving of praise! You are lucky that anyone should except your "happy" lifestyle! Move on queer! Thatb is what you really are. I do not have a problem with you people, but i do have a problem with people who have a problem excepting people who except people who have a problem. You are no different from the rest of the human race. It is obvious to me that people are the problem with the world today! That is the thing that we should accept, not you or me. We are here to serve WHOEVER wants to be served, a-hole, so do humanity a favor by getting over yourself, richard

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By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:46:00 +0000

It makes no sense that this woman in Montreal feels entitled to be served at a bar like LeStud. Gay men don't exist to entertain straight women. The bar's policy may be discrimination under the law, but there is nothing ethically wrong gay men wanting to preserve cultural spaces beyond the reach of heterosexual authority. THe fact that Ms. Vachon and her father feel "accepting" of gay is beside they point–they act as if gay culture should be all about THEM, a if we're a bunch of pathetic urchins waiting for a pat on the head from "accepting" straights. As a gay man I consider myself an absolut equal to all straights and therefore their acceptance doesn't concern me–they don't have the moral authority to approve or disapprove of equals. So the real issue in Montreal is that hyper-privileged straight girl has been told that there is one small place in the world that doesn't revolve around her, and she's behaving like a spoiled child about it.

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By: Jacob Matthews

Jacob Matthews — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:53:00 +0000

In relation to the following article: 'Conductor jailed for abusing boys can still teach':I cannot understand why this article has been included on the Pink News website.This website is supposed to be a Gay News website. Robert King is paedophile who has sexually abused underage boys. There is no mention in the article of his adult sexual orientation.Men who abuse underage boys are not necessarily homosexual in their adult sexual orientation. To include articles like this on a Gay News website sends out a dangerous message that there is some sort of link between gay men and peadophiles who abuse boys.

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By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:40:00 +0000

Gendy… The UK Civil Partnerships Act has nothing to do with EU legislation and never did. Ireland, Italy, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, and Malta are just some of the EU countries with absolutely no formal legal recognition of same-sex relationships. There is currently no obligation from the European Union for these countries to have Civil Unions/Partnerships etc. It's a shame there isn't but that is the situation for now.

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By: Gendy

Gendy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:51:00 +0000

Indeed Hazel?…..and would your pal Gordon go to a Civil Partnership Ceremony too? Almost certainly not.There is a shedload of homophobia in New Labour but it is just hidden by a load of insincere politically correct homophilic hogwash.Deeds not words,Hazel – and the Tories realised the size of the Gay Vote some time ago just as much as New Labour,belatedly,now does.As Chancellor,Brown opposed the financial provisions of the Civil Partnership Act which act in any case was only introduced into British law years after the French and Germans and most of the EU under EU regulations.The truth is that Labour has dragged its feet with the best on Gay Rights and the impetus for it has come from Brussels not the Labour Party.

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By: Gendy

Gendy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:34:00 +0000

With regard to mounting homophobic hate crimes across Europe – there can be not a shred of doubt that the Vatican has played a very large part in stirring up anti-gay feelings especially since the little Bavarian mounted the Papal Throne.Bavaria was the home of Nazism and there are so many clues that those same attitudes exist there even today. When the buried truth comes out about Ratzinger's upbringing and background so manifested in his outlook and opinions,many non Roman Catholics are going to be appalled that the Cardinals could put such a man in that position.

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By: Graham D'Amiral

Graham D'Amiral — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:17:00 +0000

As a gay man and a conservative councillor I don't recognise Hazel Blears description of the conservative party. When I first told my conservative friends that I was gay I was touched by how supportive they were. But before throwing these insults around I hope the would be deputy leader of the labour party is certain homophobia doesn't exist in her own constituency party or elsewhere in the Labour movement. Personally I think we should condemn homophobic views regardless of where they come from, rather than blaming one political party or another for them.

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By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:25:00 +0000

With respect Frieda, Civil Partnerships are not marriages, they are just legal unions that offer most of the rights of marriage, nothing more. The Labor government is on record as stating that they are not marriages, lets not delude ourselves but I applaud your comfort zone attending such ceremonies. My apologies to Alan and JP in my previous comments. I meant to have said…"it too is expected…" in regard to New York and California full marriage equality legislation.Robert, ex-pat Brit, USA

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By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:20:00 +0000

Alan, thank you for the compliment. I am in fact a native Brit living in New York City for 29 years and have dual nationality. I've always maintained an avid interest in all things political, especially when it comes to the UK. I can be more objective living over here but from my observations over the past decade of the political situation in the UK, it is quite obvious that the Labour Party has done far more than any Tory government have ever done in the interests of fairness and equality, though there is much more work to do. As your probably aware, our state Governor, Eliot Spitzer recently drafted legislation to grant Gay citizens full marriage equality in our state, though it has little chance of passing the first time around because of the conservative (republican) controlled state assembly, and in California, Gay marriage legislation has passed the state Assembly comfortably for the second time, but it two is expected to be vetoed by that state's governor. So you see, marriage is the gold standard and our own governor is aware that Civil Unions do not offer equality at the national level. Inevitably, it will pass in both states once the Democrats (read Labour) are returned to office.Message for JP, the fact that David Cameron equates Civil Partnership with Marriage is a foil to attract moderate Labour voters. People seem to think that Civil Partnerships are the end of the road for LGBT equality. Dead wrong! If Civil Parnterships in Cameron's view are on an equal footing, then why not officially declare CPs as legally recognised marriage once and for all? Maybe you should advocate your party to merge them into the Marriage Causation Act of 1973 and then see if Cameron and his party are truly supportive of marriage equality. Until then, his are just empty words to trick Gays into giving him their vote. Yes, there is homophobia in both parties, that will never change, but let's face it, full equality will never be achieved with a Tory government in power. If they had taken the lead before Blair came to power, then we would not be having this discussion.Robert, ex-pat Brit, USA

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By: Frieda

Frieda — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:13:00 +0000

Im a tory, and right wing, and I am a Councillor. My husband and I have been to 2 Civil Ceremonies, and are certainly NOT against them, in fact we support our friends who got married. Hazel blears is a nasty little pixie who just craves attention….

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By: JP

JP — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:07:00 +0000

David Cameron is the only party leader to have publicly put civil partnerships on an equal footing with marriage (in his main Conservative Party Confreence speech last autumn), something the Labour party have consistently refused to do so.As for Labour's Dear-Leader-In-Waiting, Gordon Brown has (as publicised last year by Pink News) consistenly refused to support or vote on any gay related legistaltion.I'm sure there are plently of older generation Labour supporters who would equally refuse to attend a civil partnership. This article is a non-story, and perhaps chipmunk Blears would do better focusing her 'homophobic' accusations at (gay?) Gordon Brown

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By: Sister Mary Clarence

Sister Mary Clarence — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:18:00 +0000

Illegal war in the middle east, millions left in poverty for their old age because someone's been plundering the pension funds, the NHS torpedoed and sinking (yes, I know they created it, but it doens't mean they have the right to destroy it), the gap between richest and poorest growing exponentially, higher taxation that we have every paid before, fines for for failing to help the environment by recycling your gin bottles from a government that is bringing back nuclear power, prisons full of criminals (as are the streets judging by the crime figures), but equality legislation introduced that would have been forced on us by Europe had we not done so.Jesus Christ some people live in a vacuum. I wouldn't trust Labour to run a bath.

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By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:17:00 +0000

Robert, you're absolutely right. The Tories have not changed at all, apart from how they present themselves to the rest of us – which is a big lie.From how you write you must be either American or Canadian. Good to see you taking an interest in UK politics.Best wishes,Alan x

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