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Editorial

Pick a word any word

Okay, here’s a wee game for all you gay homosexualists out there. First, empty your mind (that’s the easy bit) and then think of one word - the word that describes you. It sums up who you are, what you’re all about, is a constant in your life and, as much as one word can, defines you.

There’s a chance, for easiness of definition, the word was ‘gay’, but that’s ‘cause I just put you in a tiny pigeon-holed box - forcing a choice. It’d be a rare heterosexual guy who chose ‘straight’ as a defining word (exception being the ‘uncomfortable straight in gay bar’ scenario - “nah, ‘am straight pal - ye hear me? STRAIGHT!”). I guess we’re made to think a hell of a lot about being gay - right from early feelings of being different.

So, have I got a point? Well, it’d be cool to be part of a society that didn’t make us think so damn hard about being different - a lot of the time, in a bad way. A long overdue change, that could have positive repercussions through society and time, is civil partnership rights. Mmmmm, let me think of a word. Just one. Oh yeah - equality.

Brian Houston