'Sorry I offend you': Andrew Pierce tak on ller who says beg gay is unnatural - LBC

Contents:

• 'SORRY I OFFEND YOU': ANDREW PIERCE TAK ON LLER WHO SAYS BEG GAY IS UNNATURAL
• ANDREW PIERCE RELLS HIS OWN EXPERIENCE OF THE 1980S GAY SCENE
• ANDREW PIERCE PARTNER, GAY, HEIGHT, SALARY, NET WORTH
• GAY NSULTANT EDOR OF THE DAILY MAIL, ANDREW PIERCE, OPPOS EQUAL MARRIAGE
• I¿M A GAY MAN WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE. DO THAT MAKE ME A BIGOT, MR CAMERON?
• GB NEWS HOST SAYS PRCE WILLIAM AND KATE WILL BE ‘MOBBED BY GAYS’ WHEN THEY GO TO SOHO
• ANDREW PIERCE: SCE WHEN IS BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE A SACKABLE OFFENCE? I’M A GAY MAN – AND I WASN’T WILD ABOUT !
• WHY DO THE LIK OF DAVID STARKEY, ANDREW PIERCE AND RUPERT EVERETT OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SPE BEG GAY? IS STOCKHOLM SYNDROME?
• WHY GAY WEDDGS DO NOT ADVANCE THE E OF EQUALY

'SORRY I OFFEND YOU': ANDREW PIERCE TAK ON LLER WHO SAYS BEG GAY IS UNNATURAL

The ller's ments me durg a nversatn on gay nversn therapy, as Boris Johnson fac lls om Tory MPs to stop any fast-trackg of a ban on the practice that happens "whout bate".

Conversn therapy refers to treatments or therapi which aim to change a person's sexual orientatn or supprs their genr Zayn said: "Everyone's entled to their own beliefs, and I believe, based on my relign and based on my personal beliefs, that beg gay is not natural, you're not born gay. "Read more: A dozen Tory MPs plottg to ot PM 'blackmailed by whips', says anti-sleaze chiefAndrew, who is gay, replied: "You are entled to your belief, 's a pretty abhorrent belief I thk actually, but you're entled to .

""If you're born gay is there scientific evince that there's a geic difference between someone who's gay and someone who isn't? The Daily Mail's Andrew Pierce, pictured the 1980s, once met Boy Gee Heaven nightclub unrneath Charg Cross Statn which was the biggt gay club Europe I watched as he was hered to a VIP room, a sanctuary om his adorg may have been only a fleetg enunter but was enough for me to be able to boast that I had met Boy Gee Heaven!

ANDREW PIERCE RELLS HIS OWN EXPERIENCE OF THE 1980S GAY SCENE

Not the celtial versn, but the notor venue unrneath Charg Cross Statn, then the biggt gay club was the summer of 1985 and I'd recently moved to London, a snake-hipped 24-year-old, out and proud, relishg the new-found eedoms of the gay the phoria fad fast that night. His cheeks were sunken and his face srred by unsightly brown were the tattoos of ath, the most tellg sign of Aids, which for the prev 18 months had stalked the gay blood ran ld when, wh Diana Ross still blarg, the wrah said: 'Hello, Andrew. Pl and I met after I moved to Cheltenham 1979 to jo my first worked a partment store and later moved to London to live openly as a gay man — somethg he uldn't do his home parents assumed their strappg 6 ft son — an only child — was a red-blood heterosexual who would provi them wh the grandchildren they craved.

ANDREW PIERCE PARTNER, GAY, HEIGHT, SALARY, NET WORTH

Memori of that eveng Heaven me floodg back this week as I watched the powerful new Channel 4 drama, It's A S, wrten by Rsell T club featur several tim the seri, which charts the rapid, unfivg spread of Aids across the pal's vibrant gay scene the 1980s, and the fear, bigotry and hate men ma to feel like pariahs, rejected the workplace and socially, often by their fai and iends, openly discrimated agast and at risk of vlence, all bee of their sexualy.

Now, almost two s after homosexual acts were legalised, was our script and the evotive soundtrack pture perfectly the joyo optimism of young gay men g out rerd numbers. There had been an explosn the number of gay bars and clubs, wh entreprenrs such as a young Richard Branson spottg the potential of the 'pk pound' was Branson who bought Heaven, a former roller-skatg dis, felt vcible, happy our own sks, which is why on our way out to the bars and clubs we would lnch to the 1970s Tom Robson song: 'Sg if you're glad to be gay'. They also enhanced sexual the clubs, gay men uld be themselv: hold hands, kiss their boyiends or, more often than not, other people's boyiends.

GAY NSULTANT EDOR OF THE DAILY MAIL, ANDREW PIERCE, OPPOS EQUAL MARRIAGE

Sex was high on most people's 's A S brilliantly nveys the ntradictn of the relentls pursu of sexual adventure wh the dawng, terrifyg realisatn that gay men were beg thlsly hunted down by a myster and lethal the mours gathered pace, as our iends fell ill or sudnly vanished om our liv, as wrahs like poor Pl beme a route sight, many gay men abandoned the scene altogether. When you heard that phrase the 1980s about a gay man, you knew they had gone back to their parents to wasn't always home sweet home.

I¿M A GAY MAN WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE. DO THAT MAKE ME A BIGOT, MR CAMERON?

There were chillg reports of partners banned om seeg their dyg lovers the fay home, visg them hospal or attendg, was bee the parents were nial that their son was gay, let alone had the 'gay plague''s why when Stonewall, the gay rights group, was formed 1989, I was an early rec. Reports were filterg through om New York and Los Angel about a strange disease afflictg only gay men, but the first many of here heard about was July 1982.

It was then that the Gay News, a fortnightly newspaper, ran an em about a man lled Terrence Higgs who died om what Amerin doctors had dubbed Grids or 'Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome'.

GB NEWS HOST SAYS PRCE WILLIAM AND KATE WILL BE ‘MOBBED BY GAYS’ WHEN THEY GO TO SOHO

It's still gog strong a year of Terry's ath —and as French scientists announced they had isolated the vis rponsible — panic had broken out the gay muny and young gay men, the ignorance and prejudice were terrifyg.

There was hysteril talk om some policians about isolatg Aids patients leper-style the digal era, wh facts and figur readily obtaable om the ter, is difficult to grasp how hard was to fd out the tth about the vis that was ravagg an entire muny back 1987 — by which time was apparent that heterosexuals were as vulnerable to fectn as gay men — the much mocked 'monolh' advertisements of giant tombston crashg to the ground were broadst. HIV fectn is no longer an stant ath sentence, but that has allowed placency to take hold both the heterosexual and gay muniThat same year, the first Aids-specific dg was approved for e and sudnly there was light at the end of this darkt of, there are more than 40 dgs to choose om and, wh the right batn given at the right time, some HIV posive men and women never get fectn is no longer an stant ath sentence, but that has allowed placency to take hold both the heterosexual and gay that long ago, I was a gut speaker at a Terrence Higgs Tst fundraisg event at a Wt End theatre which was packed wh hundreds of 20 to 30-somethgs. I had a boyiend and, shock horror, he lived up to all the hackneyed stereotyp about homosexuals — cludg the fact that he was a parents were stnch, workg-class Catholics who had lived on the same Swdon uncil tate all their liv after movg out of the East End of London after the war.

ANDREW PIERCE: SCE WHEN IS BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE A SACKABLE OFFENCE? I’M A GAY MAN – AND I WASN’T WILD ABOUT !

He has been a long and lovg partnership wh the mother of his two dghters and enjoyed a close fay life, wr ANDREW PIERCEThere were no gay people on our tate — at least, not that we knew of. My parents never met anyone who was gay, which is why the subject never me up at was homosexualy ever a topic discsed at my Roman Catholic prehensive school.

I uldn’t re I do re about is that the bigotry mak so hard for many younger gay people to e out, let alone the fear of lettg down their fai. The hight-profile gay lumnist has furnished the gossip chronicl and now works at Daily Mail as a nsultant edor and Columnist Oppos Same-Sex Marriage!

Partner Preference Irrelevant To StateDpe beg an openly gay, the Daily Mail lumnist oppos the same-sex marriage legalizatn by the Marriage Act 2013 England and Wal.

WHY DO THE LIK OF DAVID STARKEY, ANDREW PIERCE AND RUPERT EVERETT OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SPE BEG GAY? IS STOCKHOLM SYNDROME?

In one of his Daily Mail lumn published on 12 June 2012, he had cricized the gay marriage views of former Brish Prime Mister, David Cameron. Andrew has claimed that spe beg a Conservative, his opposn gay marriage do not make him a Also: Josh Barro Birthday, Married, Hband, Partner, Gay, BoyiendHe also objects the 2021 natnal cens that might ask the particular qutns towards the people whether they are gay or transgenr.

Acrdg to social media reports is also says that he is gay, which is one more reason that why he don’t have a fay at the moment. Andrew is also listed as one of the top 100 gay who have had a big effect on New Bra but he is also agast marriage between the people of the same genr, Andrew also spoke out agast the BBC documentary on gay rights.

WHY GAY WEDDGS DO NOT ADVANCE THE E OF EQUALY

An openly gay lumnist for the Daily Mail has penned an article for the newspaper argug agast equal marriage, argug that his opposn did not make him a bigot. The troductn of same-sex marriage beme a policy mment at the Lib Dem nference two years ago, even though there was no reference to their electn manifto, or their four-page manifto wrten for the gay muny only six months earlier. While the anisatn — of which I’m proud to be a member — supports the ia of gay marriage, s prry remas tacklg homophobia schools after rearch showed that gay men the 16-to-24 age group are signifintly more likely to have attempted suici than other young men.

As part of a feature for the BBC News webse entled “The gay people agast gay marriage” Daily Mail lumnist Andrew Pierce says his opposn to equal marriage means he’s nounced by his crics as a “homophobe and Uncle Tom”. Mr Pierce says that for speakg out agast the reform the past, he has been attacked a rogatory fashn, spe a long history of champng gay rights and beg a supporter of Stonewall. The journalist says at a dner party he hosted for 11 gay iends, only one was favour of marriage, one was uncid and the rt were agast.