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My favourite 2024 election stat is that more 2019 Tory voters swung to being dead than swung to Labour
February 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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“Most people already supported gay rights” Lol Section 28 was still in place and at my first job I didn’t come out which was wise as the manager in a meeting about supervisor appointments announced that he “wouldn’t be promoting any poofs”
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Feb 4
Michael Deacon is at it again in the Telegraph
Way of the World Michael Deacon The Daily Telegraph4 Feb 2025FOLLOW Michael Deacon on X @ Michaelpdeacon READ MORE at telegraph.co.uk/opinion No one under the age of 30 will believe me. But when I was a student, all the way back in the late 1990s, my university had an LGB Society. No, there wasn’t a letter missing. That, in full, was the society’s name. Because in those days, everyone used to say “LGB”. There was no such thing as “LGBT”. So, if you’d knocked on the society’s door and asked, “Where’s the T?”, its members would probably have pointed you down the corridor to the café. And if you’d said, “No, T as in ‘transgender’. Why does your sign only say ‘LGB’?”, they’d probably have replied: “Because LGB stands for ‘lesbian, gay and bisexual’ – which are all forms of sexuality. Transgenderism, by contrast, has nothing to do with sexuality. It’s to do with gender identity, which is something completely different and unrelated. Having a society for ‘lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans people’, therefore, makes no more sense than having a society for ‘lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trainspotters’. Obviously we’ve got nothing against trainspotters. We’re just saying that there’s no logical reason for them to be added to the name of our society.” Still, as I say, this was all a terribly long time ago. At some point, in the years since, things changed. Suddenly it was no longer acceptable, anywhere in the English-speaking world, to say “LGB”. A “T” had to be added, at all times, to make “LGBT”.
February 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM