This is tiresome:
Pineapple Dance Studios star Louie, or Louise as I like to call him
Do you see? Because he's gay, Gordon has given him a woman's name.
Yes, that's tiresome. But this is unacceptable:
Bender it like Beckham
You can't throw a word like "bender" into a headline about a gay man. Not in a newspaper that still pretends it has any sort of standards. Homophobic name-calling isn't the same as a witty headline.
(XRRF has lots more about the quality reporting of Gordon Smart)
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The Sun has form for this, calling Derren Brown a 'mind bender' when they discovered he was gay.
Just in the middle of reading Derren Brown's book and he mentions that 'sun' article - that paper is the pits - Derren is great at what he does and his other half looks a really nice bloke!!!!
When he did 'come out' at least he chose to do it through a more intellectual paper, 'The Independent'
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