Boris Johnson quote: If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no...

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. "There was even more explic homophobia.

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

"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.

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.

BORIS JOHNSON: GAY MARRIAGE? WHY NOT?

Johnson has a rponsibily to ll out relig extremists who want to unrme our equaly laws by opposg tn agast homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. Support ee-thkg journalism and attend Inpennt eventsVictims of anti-gay laws mt be pensated.

They serve pensatn, siar to the already agreed German ernment scheme to repense men who suffered persecutn unr homophobic legislatn. Boris Johnson, who has rigned as lear of the Uned Kgdom's Conservative Party and therefore will be replaced as prime mister, leav a largely negative rerd on LGBTQ+ has supported marriage equaly but not embraced transgenr rights, and wrten articl wh homophobic and racist slurs that he claimed were satiril.

And gay members of his ernment have acced him of creatg an "atmosphere of hostily" toward LGBTQ+ people. When he took office as prime mister, succeedg Thera May, ncerns were raised about lumns he'd wrten that ntaed homophobic and racist 1998, while workg as a journalist, Johnson referred to gay men as "tank-topped bumboys" a lumn for the Telegraph newspaper.