Douglas Murray 'The White Lies of the Gay Press'

Hmm. I read a quotation in an Amazon review of his book that claimed that if you do a Google image search for “gay couples” you see lots of aspirational photos of happy smiling gay couples. I tested this. It is correct. Then he claimed that if you search for “straight couples” you get half and half gay and straight couples and lots of captions about how straight couples can learn from gay couples, who are happier and more well-adjusted. And that this is evidence of liberal elite media bias. It is true that if you search “straight couples” that is what you see. But if you just search “couples” you get happy attractive straight people. No sight or mention of gay relationships anywhere. So I think he’s seeing what supports his argument and ignoring quite a lot of context.

However it did amuse me how excited Posie P was about her name check. It’s the least angry I’ve ever seen her.

I dislike little lies because little lies tend to end up becoming big lies.

Absolutely. It's baffling how many of those who call themselves liberals or left wing quickly demonise anyone who is on the right or conservative and make fun of 'alternative facts'.... And yet a lot of the liberal media and establishments and organisations publish their very own selective versions of the truth, ignoring anything that doesn't conveniently prop up their ideological viewpoint.

"In the same way the gay press has staggered on, mainly online, long after it should have shut up shop. It ekes out an existence, with hardly any readers, paying its contributors nothing or almost nothing, trying to whip up the gays over niche issues of trans rights, and maintaining a skeleton staff paid in launch bash canapés and free items sent to them for review."

It would be interesting to see Pink News and Spectator readership figures side by side.

Presumably they would include people surprised to find the Spectator a more comfortable, sensible place, not perhaps something they would have predicted a decade before.

Not content with erasing women’s narratives, they want to erase gay men too? It won’t end well.

Haha. I honestly didn't know he was gay. All the sweeter!!

"In neither publication, spanning both sides of the Atlantic, did either publication tell its readers that I am gay. Indeed that I was the only gay in the studio on this occasion. Either they do not know this, or they fail to mention it because it is unhelpful for the real political nature of their argument."

Same I like him