Incoming:
As a Brit why haven’t you written a post today about this Stephen Gately Death Column by Jan Moir in the Daily Mail and all the scandal it’s causing?
Well, OK… Jan Moir’s piece in the Daily Mail about the recent demise of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately was originally titled:
Why there was nothing ‘natural’ about Stephen Gately’s death
but has been recently and quietly retitled:
A strange, lonely and troubling death . . .
This sudden change of title may be in order to avoid the wrath of the Press Complaints Commission, whose website crashed, allegedly under the number of complaints she invoked, many of them encouraged by Stephen Fry on twitter (and here).
But those histrionics, aside…
I actually agreed with most of what Moir said.
It was just that her fundamentals were a little skew.
Gately died an unnatural death because he was “a gay celebrity”, not because he was “a gay”.
See MJ, see Keith Ledger, see… the rest of them.
EDIT: Even following the list of comments below, this is taking things too far.