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| Sent to The Guardian: Use of the word "gay" for bisexuals is insulting | Jan. 27th, 2006 09:54 am | |
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Dear Sir I write to take issue with Friday's Leader in the politics section (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/libd Mr Hughes is not "a gay politician". He, like myself, and many of my friends, is bisexual. You, together with many UK journalists, may consider it "convenient" to include the term "bisexual" under the umbrella term "gay", but I, and many in the LGBT community find this trivialisation of our sexual identity extremely insulting. I am bisexual; I am not "gay". I am not "recovering" from homosexuality or in denial about it; I am confident in this identity and would expect the media to recognise me as such. As it happens, while I am a member of the Liberal Democrats I bear no great affection for Simon Hughes or his politics, but I feel that he, the party and the LGBT community deserve appropriate recognition. Mr Hughes did not lie when he stated that he was not gay; if the journalist interviewing him was too lax to ask the obvious follow-up question then it is not Mr Hughes' integrity that should be in doubt. Of course, I am also appalled that a person's sexuality should be seen to have any relevance to his or her political capabilities, but that is a larger and separate issue. Richard George, London | ||
| Dear Royal Mail | Dec. 9th, 2005 06:56 pm | |
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I have just come home to find a damaged parcel in apologetic "damaged parcel" packaging - lying in a heap of dead leaves outside my front door, four feet from the pavement. This is by no means the first time goods and parcels have been left outside the house in full view of the road, and it makes a mockery of the apology on the package. It is completely unacceptable service, and far too common. Furthemore, another of the letters delivered today was a recorded delivery, "signed for", which cannot have been signed for as no stickers were I could continue with the functional flaws that your website displays in the Firefox browser, the fact that your complaints line cuts off dead with no information about opening hours, or the likelihood that my divorce proceedings were destroyed by the loss of documents, but frankly I do not have the energy to fully express my annoyance. | ||