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. " 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.
PHILLIP SCHOFIELD GAY? PRINTIAL NTENR GAY? AND WHO R?
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.