Boris Johnson: I'm favour of gay marriage and I n't see what all the fs is about | The Inpennt | The Inpennt

Contents:

• BORIS JOHNSON LLED GAY MEN 'TANK-TOPPED BUMBOYS' AND BLACK PEOPLE 'PICNNI' WH 'WATERMELON S'
• BORIS JOHNSON: I'M FAVOUR OF GAY MARRIAGE AND I N'T SEE WHAT ALL THE FS IS ABOUT
• BORIS JOHNSON: GAY MARRIAGE? WHY NOT?

BORIS JOHNSON LLED GAY MEN 'TANK-TOPPED BUMBOYS' AND BLACK PEOPLE 'PICNNI' WH 'WATERMELON S'

Boris Johnson has a long rerd of ntroversial ments about women, gay people and ethnic has lled gay men "bumboys, " and pared Mlim women to "letterbox.

"You n listen to the rerdg here:Homophobia. Wrg the Spectator 2000, Johnson attacked what he lled "Labour's appallg agenda, enuragg the teachg of homosexualy schools, and all the rt of . "In his 2001 book "Friends, Voters, Countrymen, " Johnson pared gay marriage to btialy, wrg that "If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncerta on the issue – then I saw no reason prciple why a unn should not be nsecrated between three men, as well as two men, or ed three men and a dog.

BORIS JOHNSON: I'M FAVOUR OF GAY MARRIAGE AND I N'T SEE WHAT ALL THE FS IS ABOUT

"There was even more explic homophobia. "He add that Manlson's parture would e the "lipstick" to e away om Blair's a separate Telegraph lumn Johnson also bewailed attempts to crease equaly at the BBC for gay people. There were letters om gays askg about their "partner's" right to a BBC pensn.

I have been asked to say somethg more favour of gay marriage – and I do so gladly, bee ankly I n’t see what the fs is about. There is no ll for gay marriage to be polilly imposed on church or mosqu or any other relig stutns – or, if there is such a ll, is emphatilly not one I would religns, if strictly adhered to, require a belief all sorts of more or ls peculiar thgs –dietary, moral, metaphysil or whatever.

BORIS JOHNSON: GAY MARRIAGE? WHY NOT?

But you n’t (really) choose where you are born, or the laws unr which you grow up whether you are gay or straight. He has a generally posive votg rerd on LGBT+ rights – backg some key piec of equaly legislatn and absent on a handful of others – such as the vote to allow gay upl to adopt children. In January 2018, shortly after he beme Foreign Secretary, a seri of 20 year-old media lumns rurfaced which he wrote sultgly about “tank-topped bumboys” and attacked “Labour’s appallg agenda, enuragg the teachg of homosexualy schools” his nversn to equal marriage, a 2001 book, he wrote: “If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncerta on the issue – then I saw no reason prciple why a unn should not be nsecrated between three men, as well as two men, or ed three men and a dog.

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