K

“A lot of people actually assume I’m gay because I’m quite thin and into my clothes.”

Jack P. Shepherd, alias Corrie’s David Platt (PinkNews 29-07-08)

K

"There is no doubt that if Iris Robinson had made those remarks about the black or the Jewish community she would have been ousted from public office and forced to resign."

Peter Tatchell (PinkNews 29-07-08)

L

"We don't see why welcoming the gay or lesbian person must mean blessing what they do in the church's name or accepting them for ordination whatever their lifestyle."

The Archbishop of Canterbury seems to recommend examining the sheets of gay and lesbian clergy (Guardian 30-07-08)

J

Bishops worry that, to the outside world, the Anglican Communion is obsessed with sex, especially the gay variety. No purpose would be served by highlighting that of the five colleges on Kent University campus - Darwin, Rutherford, Eliot, Keynes and Woolf - one is named after a lesbian and another is named after a homosexual. And let's not mention the agnostic - Darwin - who is now the poster boy for secularists and atheists everywhere.

Riazat Butt (Guardian 31-07-08)

K

"At first I thought the rumour was so ludicrous it would die a natural death. The opposite happened and it gained such a foothold that many people see it as the truth.

"If I were that way inclined, I'd have said so. The truth is I have always been the complete opposite of gay."

Valerie Singleton scotches the urban myth that she had an affair with Joan Armatrading (Mirror 14-07-08)

K

Has Olympic hopeful Tom Daley found himself a diving 'belle'?

Daily Mail Headline. Tom is 14 and his supposed female interest is 19. What would the Mail have said if the belle had been a beau? (Daily Mail 30-07-08)

K

‘We fail to see how we have discriminated against you.’

Letter from a Bury St Edmunds estate agents to a couple who they outed as lesbians in the advert they created to sell their house (Daily Mail 29-07-08)

K

“We are arguing about scripture itself and not the God to whom it points. I have to wonder, as young men are knifing each other all over London and when more than a billion people try to exist on less than $1 a day, why the church is tearing itself apart over the issue of sexuality. It is such a waste of our time and energy.”

Bishop Gene Robinson (Timesonline 27-07-08)

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"When you are in charge of a group of young boys, as this club was as I understand it, it's got to make sure.

"It's the same if you have a pedophile there as a masseur, right?

"And you might say the pedophile would do no damage, but once it was pointed out to you, you have a duty of care to those underage children not to put them in a situation of risk."

Former Victoria premier Jeff Kennett’s words on Bonny Doon Football Club’s decision to sack its trainer after discovering he is bisexual (he’s been there for 22 years) (MCV 28-07-08)

J

“Can you imagine if you’re a young man and you reach that stage, 17, 18, and you realise you’re not quite like everybody else, and all you’ve ever heard is people talking about ‘poofters’ and ‘faggots’ and whatever.

“You hear your family saying it and you hear your colleagues saying it, what sort of self-esteem do you have?

“You don’t think that turns into terrible depression and sometimes walking off to the barn with a bit of rope?”

Media pundit John Michael Howson on Kennett’s comments (same)

N.B. Jeff Kennett is currently president of Australia’s national anti-depression initiative Beyondblue