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Law Soc, Stonewall launch first major gay careers survey

Being any of LBGT has no bearing on anyone's humanity or anyone's ability to live the same life everyone else lives. The same goes for persons of a different colour, creed or natural origin. I find it horribly patronising to have an appointee made up to deal with LBGT as if they were a different species of human being. Being gay doesn't mean that a man is unmanly (the Greeks, Romans and many Samurai were openly gay and yet regarded as paragons of manly and martial valour) not that a woman is unfeminine. Gay men are not all Danny La Rue's no more than all women are bearded hermaphrodites - this means that just as completely straight men and women (if there really are such things) can gather consensually to watch a stripper so can LBGT. To assume LBGT are inevitably offended is to ringfence them as prudes and kill joys. On the work front being LBGT is not a work issue it is a home life issue - I'm no more interested in what a colleague does in his own time than I'm interested in what my mum and dad get up to when we're out. The best person for the job is the one who does the job the best! End of!!!!

21-Apr-2009

11:05 am