Prinz Harry, eine der königlichen Witzfiguren aus den Königreich der großen Briten und Nordiren, lässt, ganz der Großpapa, immer mal wieder dumme Sprüche los. In 2006 (das dazugehörige Video wurde erst jetzt zu Geld gemacht):
Prince Harry, a serving Army officer, apologised earlier this week after a Sunday tabloid revealed footage of him taken in 2006 while in training in which he questioned whether a fellow soldier was feeling “gay” or “a bit queer on the side” following an exhausting task.
Darauf empört sich Ben Summerskill, neuerdings von der Queen mit einer hübschen Anstecknadel versehen:
Ben Summerskill, chief executive of gay equality organisation Stonewall, has expressed upset at Prince Harry’s comments and drawn attention to the damaging effect that these derogatory comments can have in the long-run.
“It’s conspicuous that Prince Harry has expressed regret for his racist remarks, but not yet for his homophobic ones,” he said.
“Working as Stonewall now does with staff of all three armed services, we know that this sort of low-level insult does have an impact on operational effectiveness.
“We trust that the Prince will act very swiftly to offer an appropriate apology, in particular to those lesbian and gay personnel currently on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Ganz anders Peter Tatchell:
Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell has defended the third in line to the throne over accusations of homophobia.
“I cannot see anything offensive about the context and manner in which Harry used the word queer,” said Mr Tatchell, who is a parliamentary candidate for the Green party and a republican.”
“It wasn’t said with hate, aggression or malice.”
Denn Peter hat sich das Video, auf dem die Empörlichkeiten dokumentiert sind, bis zum bitteren Ende angeschaut und entdeckt:
“Later in his video diary the prince mouths to another soldier ‘I love you’ before kissing him on the cheek and licking his face.
Kissing another bloke in front of his mates and putting it on film doesn’t seem very homophobic to me.”
Wenn ich mir vorstelle, dass dieser Knilch an mir herumlecken würde: Bäääääääääh!
Aber Tatchell ist ganz begeistert:
“On the contrary, Harry comes across as quite gay-friendly.”
“The prince is third in line to the British throne. For him to happily give his soldier friend a public kiss and lick his face strikes me as rather liberated and enlightened, for a straight man.
“If only more heterosexual men were relaxed about same-sex affection like Harry, the world would be a better place.”
Wie schön, dass sich die Herren Summerskill und Tatchell mal wieder zoffen. Wir dürfen getrost davon ausgehen, dass Tatchell die gegenteilige Ansicht über den kleinen Prinzen vertreten hätte, wenn Summerskill sich nicht aufgeregt hätte.
