Ein schwuler Mann, gerade 33 Jahre alt, stirbt. Trauer? Nein, nicht bei Jan Moir, Klatschspaltenfüllerin bei der Daily Mail. Sie freut sich diebisch und nutzt die Gelegenheit, ihn und alle schwulen Menschen reichlich durch den Schmutz zu ziehen:
The sugar coating on this fatality is so saccharine-thick that it obscures whatever bitter truth lies beneath. Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas and go to sleep on the sofa, never to wake up again.
Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one. Let us be absolutely clear about this. All that has been established so far is that Stephen Gately was not murdered.
And I think if we are going to be honest, we would have to admit that the circumstances surrounding his death are more than a little sleazy.
After a night of clubbing, Cowles and Gately took a young Bulgarian man back to their apartment. It is not disrespectful to assume that a game of canasta with 25-year-old Georgi Dochev was not what was on the cards.
Cowles and Dochev went to the bedroom together while Stephen remained alone in the living room.
Another real sadness about Gately’s death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.
Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael.
Of course, in many cases this may be true. Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately’s last night raise troubling questions about what happened.
It is important that the truth comes out about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death.
Nachdem, dem Internet sei dank, eine Protestlawine über das Käseblatt und den großen weißen Vogel Moir niedergegangen ist, hast die Frau tatsächlich die Stirn zu erwidern:
I think it is mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones.
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