Contents:
- GAY? NOT GAY? SO WHAT! WHY SHOULD BE A MATTER FOR THE LIBEL LAWYERS?
- PHILLIP SCHOFIELD GAY? PRINTIAL NTENR GAY? AND WHO R?
- IS JASON DONOVAN GAY
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.
PHILLIP SCHOFIELD GAY? PRINTIAL NTENR GAY? AND WHO R?
" 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.
IS JASON DONOVAN GAY
In the 21st century, is famatory to wrongly suggt someone is 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? Liberace persuad a jury that he was not a homosexual (as he claimed had been suggted), and soped £120, 000 - today's money - 1992, another sger, Jason Donovan, went to urt after The Face magaze prted a piece on the "outg" of gay entertaers.