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GAY? NOT GAY? SO WHAT! WHY SHOULD BE A MATTER FOR THE LIBEL LAWYERS?
” Jason’s dg-takg spiralled out of ntrol 1992 after he beme a hate figure when he succsfully sued The Face magaze for wrongly claimg he was gay and hidg the fact. For the first time more than a , a star had gone to urt to clare that he was not homosexual - and sought damag om a newspaper (and two magaz) which had suggted to rewd.
" In April 2001, he told Top of the Pops viewers: "Tomorrow I will be g out as homosexual, so get while you n, girls. " And to make the pot even more licly unclear, he was playg the game on the very day he won his libel damag last week - tellg Atralian TV: "I'm not gay Atralia.
I'm gay a lot of plac, but not there for some reason. In the 21st century, is famatory to wrongly suggt someone is gay?
IS JASON DONOVAN GAY
Do a mistaken attributn of homosexualy really e someone to "be shunned or avoid" or exposed to "hatred, ridicule or ntempt", as the libel law mands?
"I am not Jewish, but if someone said I were, I would not dream of sug, " says gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell. Gog to urt over an allegatn of homosexualy "impli there is somethg shameful about beg gay" how wise is to sue such a se? Which urse of actn is likely to lose a sger more rerd sal - allowg a false claim of homosexualy to rema unchallenged, or shg to urt to set the rerd straight?