The heightened awareness and need for continued vigilance by those who speak up for gay people and the social and clinical issues they face is wonderful. If other at risk groups had the benefit of such a concerted and focused effort, we might get better at dealing with the issue, not the victims.

People who are shunned by society tend to cluster, often in cities. If The UK as a whole had the mental health / gay / ethnic minority health issues of London, the approach would be national. This is why you have a larger push on type II diabetes in Leicester than in Leicestershire. A bigger push on gay health in Manchester than in Lancashire etc.

Thanks as ever to Keith for supplying the quote by Noël Gill that he claimed I didn't have evidence of earlier. See? You get there in the end...