Jan Moir

Ah don't we just love the Daily Mail. A newspaper that prints fear and hatred out on a daily basis disguised as news. Now is not the time for a long run through the Daily Mail's history. I'm here to talk about Jan Moir's article today about the death of Stephen Gately.

Basically Jan thinks that Stephen died of gayness. He was a young, fit man and therefore a sudden natural death is impossible. Gay people don't die of natural causes. They die because they are gay. She thinks everyone is 'spinning' to cover up the fact that he died because of his gayness.

Apparently on the night in question he smoked some dope and picked up a young Bulgarian chap for a threesome. These evil gay activities - after all no straight people have threesomes or take drugs - caused his death. Jan fearlessly points this out just in case Stephen's mother might be reading. Forget grieving over the tragically early death of a son due to natural causes. Forget waiting at least until the poor bloke is buried let's hammer some ice-cold nails of hatred into his body now.

She even ties together Stephen's death with the suicide of Kevin McGee. The link between them: gayness. Therefore being gay must be why they died. Nothing to do with depression or drug addiction in McGee's case. Nothing to do with natural causes in Stephen's. They died young because they were gay according to Jan.

Well Jan you incredibly unpleasent bigot and possible an idiot to. Perhaps you don't really believe what you are writing but are doing it for the Daily Mail's cash. Perhaps you are just a heartless bitch but I think you need to learn something: straight people are not immortal. Straight people die every day. Sometimes they die tragically young.

Stephen Gatley's death is sad. A young, healthy man dies young. To blame that death on his gayness is bigotry. I hope all those companies that advertise in the Daily Mail, especially those with banner ads around the article, which last time I looked included BT, L'Oreal and Marks and Spencers, have a long hard think about what they are trying to say by advertising there. Perhaps they all think gayness is a terminal condition to.