Jan Moir – Bigot Of The Year

http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2009/11/traitors-gate-beckons-for-jan-moir.html

“ACERBIC Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir has been recognised for her weekly effusions with a last minute nomination in the Bigot of the Year category at tomorrow’s Stonewall awards ceremony.

The gay rights charity has even invited Moir to the event but is unsure whether she will attend.

In her column the day before Stephen Gately’s funeral, Moir said there were unanswered questions about his death which had occurred in “sleazy” circumstances. She wrote the death “strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.”

Moir was forced publicly to apologise to Stephen Gately’s family and friends for the timing of a column last month about the death of the Boyzone singer, which prompted a record 25,000 complaints to the press watchdog, but also defended it, saying she did not hold “poisonous” homophobic views.

Guests at the Stonewall bash include Gok Wan, Mary Portas, Sue Perkins, Russell Tovey, John Bercow and Ben Bradshaw.

Moir might be wise to give the event a wide berth.”

Well-deserved this is and it couldn’t have gone to a nicer person.

Please note that she did, indeed, ONLY apologise for the timing of her article, not its contents, so it actually was a very crafty and disingenuous “apology”, probably very carefully conceived by her and her editor. Such is the calibre of these people.