25 JUNE 2005, Page 20

Gay means bad

From Stephen Paxton

Stephen Paxton Hampton Hill, Middlesex Sir: I have just read Rod Liddle’s splendid piece on Millwall’s being guilty when proved innocent (‘A city above suspicion’, 18 June). Alas, he is slightly out of date. Just as ‘evil’ and ‘wicked’ mean good in some quarters, in similar quarters — mostly young males — ‘gay’ means ‘bad’, as in rubbish.