9 responses to “The Syrian Lesbian Blogger Story”
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You are real?!
I am very tempted to produce a spoof blog post ‘outing’ various Christian bloggers. I suspect at least one of them actually is a Syrian lesbian …
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Oddly enough I was talking to somebody last week who struggled to believe it. I kind-of basked in your reflected glory.
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Amusingly, The Times claimed that the sapphic poetry was, in restrospect, something of a giveaway! I’ve never deliberately read a lot of lesbian poetry, but the dude’s attempts seemed plausible to me (in contrast to his using Scottishisms like “wee small hours”)
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Kelvin! You’re an out gay priest …. you never said!
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Ain’t no further out to go, Blair.
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And yet the press insist on telling us, every time they write about you, that you have come out. As if it’s a shocking new development.
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I know. It must be because nothing else much is happening in the world, Beth.
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Michael Stipe went through a period of being outed by the UK press every two years or so for over a decade; you are, at least, in good company 😉
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