9 responses to “The Syrian Lesbian Blogger Story”

  1. Eddie Green Avatar

    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 …

  2. Rosemary Hannah Avatar
    Rosemary Hannah

    Oddly enough I was talking to somebody last week who struggled to believe it. I kind-of basked in your reflected glory.

  3. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    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”)

  4. Blair Robertson Avatar
    Blair Robertson

    Kelvin! You’re an out gay priest …. you never said!

    1. kelvin Avatar

      Ain’t no further out to go, Blair.

  5. Beth Avatar

    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.

    1. kelvin Avatar

      I know. It must be because nothing else much is happening in the world, Beth.

  6. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    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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