Growing up in Wales as a child I knew that being gay and staying in rural Wales would not be easy, hence being one of the reasons I left for the big city - Cardiff, and then London as soon as I could. At the same time I had the view that over the Atlantic in America things were far more accepting, and far more liberal. So its rather off that in a week when the hate filled fascists of NOM led by Maggie Gallagher have succeeded yet again in removing a human right from the gay residents of Maine, that tonight on S4C I have been watching a Welsh language sports quiz, the audience full of Welsh rugby lads and laddetts where one of the teams is captained by an openly gay rugby referee.

I'm not living in a fantasy land that Wales has become a gay nirvana, but it is nice to think that it is become far more open than it was two decades ago when I left tis small coastal town.