Tabloid journalists have no more right to intrude there than they have to peep through net curtains
“Tabloid journalists have no more right to intrude there than they have to peep through net curtains.”Last month a local councillor in County Wexford, Ireland, defended his right to a Gaydar profile, and likened it to a personal ad in a newspaper. Malcolm Byrne’s profile included non-explicit photos and harmless details about hobbies. In an interview with the Irish Independent, Byrne, 31, said: “I happen to be a public representative who is gay. I have nothing to be ashamed of.”Fountain, on the other hand, thinks politicians need to get real “I don’t know how Oaten thought he could remain anonymous. Gaydar is a public space which we access in the privacy of our own homes.
I wouldn’t put anything up there I didn’t want everyone to know.”As far as Dr Whitty is concerned, Gaydar is a vision of the future. One she’s quite looking forward to.”Gaydar facilitates existing sexual desires – it doesn’t create them,” she says. “Straight men and women have similar desires, but so far they’ve not been allowed to act on them Gay culture has led the way.”Women are already catching on Gaydargirls launches next month. Already 140,000 gay women have signed up, confounding the prevailing myth that lesbians prefer deep-and-meaningful relationships to down-and-dirty sex.
Another fight won, another step forward for sisters everywhere.”I had those stereotypes too,” says Badenhorst. “But it seems that young metropolitan lesbians are behaving more and more like gay men. They’ve just taken longer to get to the same place.”So Gaydar is blazing a trail which straight culture is already starting to follow. Like it or hate it, this is increasingly a world where everything is available at the tap of a keypad and the click of a mouse CDs, groceries.. and now, whatever your orientation, sex I happen to think it’s great. But Mum, if you’re reading this, I’d still rather you didn’t go on Gaydar.. Three nations are fighting overthe world’s greatest hoard of sunken treasure.
More than 300 years after the warship HMS Sussex sank off Gibraltar carrying gold coins worth £2.4bn, Britain, Spain and the US are claiming the treasure. With 80 guns and a crew of 500, the Sussex was the British navy’s flagship when, in February 1694, it was wrecked in a storm as it headed towards the Mediterraneanon a secret mission to persuade the Italian Duke of Savoy to join the international alliance against France, with which Britain was then at war.
The Sussex was lost until 1995, when a researcher handed a US-based salvage firm called Odyssey a letter, written shortly after the sinking, that gave the first hint of the ship’s cargo.Odyssey began searching for the wreck in 1998, and four years later announced it had discovered it half a mile beneath the surface. The Florida-based company signed an agreement with the British Government to raise the ship.Spain, however, which has long claimed Gibraltar as its own, soon demanded a cut of the treasure. The Odyssey mission, which began in earnest on 12 December, was hampered by the arrival of Spanish ships – dangerously close, the company said, to its main vessel the Odyssey Explorer, which it has temporarily removed to safer waters.Co-founder Greg Stemm said: “The company is planning to file legal action against boat operators who have endangered their own vessels, the company’s ship Odyssey Explorer and its crew by violating numerous maritime regulations.”A spokesman for the MoD last week reiterated British ownership of the Sussex and of its precious cargo.”It remains the property of the Crown, irrespective of it being a wreck or where it lies,” he said.. The husband of a senior Cabinet minister said he was “mortified” after he admitted claiming he had taken a £400,000 bribe from Silvio Berlusconi. David Mills told The Independent on Sunday tht he felt deeply ashamed for the political embarrassment he has caused his wife, Tessa Jowell, the Secretary of State for Culture.