So, I just read this post on a blog this afternoon., and I have to say, I was as shocked as the publisher. However, it is not as though homosexuals have the same right as heterosexuals in the rest of the UK either.
The decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland (hereafter simply "Ireland") was greatly down to the campaign by Irish David Norris, the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform (wiki link).
However, even in the relatively liberal United Kingdom, homosexual prejudice still exists. Homosexual men are grossly under-represented in schools and children's services (oddly enough, lesbians show less of a disparity). These are men who fancy other men we're talking about here - not paedophiles!
Men who have ever had oral or anal sex with another man, even with a condom or other protection, are banned for life from giving blood. So too, are women who have have vaginal, oral or anal sex in the past year with any man who has ever had sex with another man. This, to me, is simple discrimination.
The decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland (hereafter simply "Ireland") was greatly down to the campaign by Irish David Norris, the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform (wiki link).
However, even in the relatively liberal United Kingdom, homosexual prejudice still exists. Homosexual men are grossly under-represented in schools and children's services (oddly enough, lesbians show less of a disparity). These are men who fancy other men we're talking about here - not paedophiles!
Men who have ever had oral or anal sex with another man, even with a condom or other protection, are banned for life from giving blood. So too, are women who have have vaginal, oral or anal sex in the past year with any man who has ever had sex with another man. This, to me, is simple discrimination.
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Wow that is appalling, i had no idea about that last paragraph, thats ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteIt does bother me that the society in the UK and in the USA seems to be a lot more comfortable with lesbians but not with gay men, I realise it has something to do with the ideas of masculinity and that almost all men find lesbians extremely arousing, but i find it terribly unfair that women are sprawled across magazines all over each other and yet if that was two men there would be a retraction because of complaints!
grr, i could go on for days but i wont.
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