Queer question time
After the vigil headed off in a Black Cab in the direction of the RVT for Queer Question time, an event which tragically coincided with the event at Trfalgar Square as a result everything had been pushed back an hour or so.
Five panelist with Amy Lame playing the role of David Dimbleby. Angela Eagle MP and the country's most senior (only) out Lesbian politician, Andrew Boff London Assembly Member (and that most bizarre of creatures a Gay Tory) Peter Tatchell, Mark McCalmont (the singer) and Tim Teeman (of Times and owner of a very sexy pair or eyebrows).
Questions were mainly on political issues of the day with gay rights theme. On the whole the panel expressed me, particularly Eagle and Boff. In fact Boff became dangerously near to become an even rarer creature - a sensible gay Tory, he spoke a lot of sense about the Nastiness of the Daily Mail, sloppy use of language by BBC journalists when it comes to reporting news regarding child abuse, the way in which the BNP works at trying to make it's views acceptable (which in my view is actually similar to the way in which the Daly Mail pushes its agenda), he lost it a bit when trying to defend Boris are not so lovely Mayor. Angela Eagle - there with her wife, another victim of the Daily Mail homophonic agenda, defended the government's Gay rights policies, and rightly stated that Conservative opposition in the House of Lords was a barrier to putting Anti-Gay Hate Crime on the statute books. Tatchell did well but I still don't fully understand his views on Gay Marriage / Straight Civil Partnerships, and I'm not really keen to further explore the possibility that Nick Griffin is actually a big closet case. He was also the only one in the hate crime debate to bring up the issue of anti-Trans hate crime, he named a recent victim, and only a handful knew the name and understood the significance. I wasn't one of them. After the rather nasty piece against the Trans community written by so called lesbian feminist activist Julie Biden yesterday, he put over the message that T in the LGBT is often overlooked by the first three quarters of the term.
The star of the evening however wasn't anyone on the panel but the Lesbian who confronted Nick Griffin on Question Time, by telling him that he may be repulsed by gay men kissing, but that he could be assured that the feeling was mutual.
After the questions we had some music of to be honest dubious quality - it certainly wasn't a get up and dance selection. But we then had Dickie Beau who did a marvelous act dressed up as Michael Jackson, complete with baby.
I hope they do something similar again, but next time without the tragic backdrop of Trafalgar Square.
