http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...complaint-gill
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The BBC presenter Clare Balding is embroiled in a furious row over a newspaper columnist's "homophobic" remarks about her sexuality. The 39-year-old sports journalist has lodged a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission following a review of her new programme, Britain by Bike, by the Sunday Times's TV and restaurant critic, AA Gill.
Balding, who is gay, complained to the newspaper's editor, John Witherow, about the tone of the article. But, she said, she was then even more horrified by Witherow's response.
Gill had written: "Some time ago, I made a cheap and frankly unnecessary joke about Clare Balding looking like a big lesbian. And afterwards somebody tugged my sleeve to point out that she is a big lesbian."
After a mock apology, he continued: "Now back to the dyke on a bike, puffing up the nooks and crannies at the bottom end of the nation."
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However the most intelligent thing I have heard all month is from AA Gill's boss:
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"In my view some members of the gay community need to stop regarding themselves as having a special victim status and behave like any other sensible group that is accepted by society.
"Not having a privileged status means, of course, one must accept occasionally being the butt of jokes. A person's sexuality should not give them a protected status.
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Wholeheartedly agree. And there are far more people than the gay community who should take that advice. Gay people say they want equality and be treated like everyone else and as Gill's boss says that includes being the butt of a joke occasionally like us heterosexuals are.
And finally with no sense of irony John Prescott chimes about Gill insulting Balding by calling Gill "a ****"