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Ridiculous homophobic headline on today's Express uses actual words from judge defending right to live gay openly

Darren Atwater | Thursday 8 July, 2010 10:35

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There has been much gnashing of teeth this morning of a homophobic front page of today’s Express.

In fact, that ridiculous stereotypical description of the life of the gay is from Supreme Court justice Alan Rodger, known as Lord Rodger, in defending the right to live openly.

Here’s the full quote (Link is a PDF)

To illustrate the point with trivial stereotypical examples from British society: just as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates. Mutatis mutandis – and in many cases the adaptations would obviously be great – the same must apply to other societies. In other words, gay men are to be as free as their straight equivalents in the society concerned to live their lives in the way that is natural to them as gay men, without the fear of persecution.

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