Tory gay squirming continues; Ed Milliband LGBT-gay’s choice; Ulster Unionist won’t go in Pride Parade; and Reading Pride biggest ever

It’s been a very strange week for the tories here in the UK when they’ve been wallowing in gayness, or suspected gayness. The fallout continues with the foreign secretary William Hague, and his supposed gayness. His extraordinary response to the rumours have come under attack from his own, and many people are shaking their heads at this storm in a tea-cup.

On the other side of the political spectrum it is a more sedate affair where people speculate who is the best candidate for gay labour members, and it seems that Ed Milliband is the current favourite there. The gay news site PinkNews polled its members and found that 42% of identified labour voters preferred Ed Milliband.

And the more sedate political debate continues in Northern Ireland, but from the opposite view of the Labour one. There the Ulster Unionists are choosing between the traditionalist Tom Elliot and the more liberal Basil McCrea. Mr Elliot will give those gays the least, and will certainly not attend either the Gaelic Games (GAA) or the gay pride parades.

And speaking of Pride, Reading Pride was reportedly the biggest ever with 12000 participants, according to the organisers.

Glee for Scooch; Emma Thompson upset Isle of Wight; Gay man is upset too; Stephen Fry joins Norwich City; Will Young wins

My gay wiring got a bit of a short circuit when I read that Reading Pride – which takes place in September – will feature the group Scooch performing hits from the TV show Glee. A mix of Eurovision and musical theatre, in other words, and it may be too much for a gay man to bear. It seems like a planned joke.

And if it’s a joke, maybe it will fall as flat with the queers of Reading as Emma Thompson’s joke on The Late Show in the states did with the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight. She commented on the island with “Oh, so they stone homosexuals there? Nice. I think they are still allowed to flog them, which of course some of them enjoy.” This was not taken in a spirit of the Jest by the people of Isle of Wight, who got upset.

Spreading the misery around, the gay journalist Michaelangelo Signorile is upset too because national media in the US has described Judge Vaughn Walker as gay. Signorile said that the description of Walker was “a testament to how easily the media is manipulated by the right into doing things about which editors and reporters claim to be staunchly opposed.” What they are, supposedly, opposed to is outing.

A gay man that is not upset, hopefully, is the British writer and comedian Stephen Fry, who is joining the board of british football club Norwich City. “Truly this is one of the most exciting days of my life and I am as proud and pleased as I could be.”, Fry said in response to it all. So no, he doesn’t appear to be upset. Hopefully. Unless his joining the board will give him depression for not being picked as a member of the first team. Time will tell.

And as if that’s not enough, the gay singer Will Young has been voted Best Role Model for Gay Young People this year. If the title hasn’t left your tongue in knots, you will undoubtedly be pleased about that, and that he won by 58% in a poll arranged by the UK gay charity Stonewall. And that of course also makes me happy because I can include a shirtless Will Young in this post.