'I’d say the best way to mourn our Paul, apart from watching re-runs of his greatest bon-mots, is to raise your voice, take off your heels and fight back' 🖋️ PatrickStrud for ipaperviews
in 1998, at a time when gay people didn’t even have an equal age of consent, let alone The Equality Act to stop people being fired for their sexuality, was nothing short of miraculous. It was a show, lest we forget, previously occupied by Les Dawson. The man who made mother-in-law jokes.
The following quotes all come from just one hour in his company. “The Catholic Church has no right to wag the finger at gay people. How can we respect a church that has encouraged paedophiles by moving them from one parish to another, free to carry on again?” he raged. He was not exactly sparing when it came to former politicians either. When I asked about Ann Widdecombe’s opposition to same-sex marriage he replied: “What does she know about love or marriage? She’s an eternal virgin. She’ll have on her tombstone, ‘Return to sender, unopened.'”, who was responsible for the infamous front page falsely accusing Liverpool fans at the Hillsborough disaster of pickpocketing victims and urinating on police, “a skid mark on the face of journalism”.
Paul, you see, wasn’t a stereotype of a gay man, but an archetype: a layer-cake with humour atop, anger just beneath, and right in the centre the love and compassion of someone who knows what it is to be vulnerable.
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