Just so that everybody is clear about the issue of Matthew Parrish's sexuality, which I for one have no objection to.

Matthew Parris is openly homosexual, and a campaigner for homosexual rights and equality. When a person campaigns for his beliefs, it is not surprising that people should use the handle he provides, to describe him as a person. Once again the ploughshare of the English language is being beaten into a sword by the politically correct, in order to stab someone who mentions the openly acknowledged issue of a man's sexual preferences.
Had the word 'gay' [sic] been prefaced by a derogatory adjective I could see the point of getting het up about it, but as it was merely stated as a fact, openly acknowledged by the person concerned, I see no sin, real or imagined.

Rant over.

G.