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Sir: For the third week running Richard Ingrams has told us why he did not watch Gay Life. Homosexuality seems to obsess hint and to distort his judgment even to the point where he can regard as a liar one of the participants ('Marvin's mother') in a Programme he did not see. May I suggest, sir, that you urge Mr Ingrams both to comment in his television columns only on programmes which he has seen and to set out in full elsewhere in the Spectator his views about homosexuals, what they should do about themselves, and what society should do about them? Those of your readers who have to cope with the various kinds of harassment which homosexuals suffer (e.g. unfair legislation, dismissal from jobs merely on account of our private lives lawfully conducted, insult, and queer-bashing sometimes to the point of murder) would welcome his considered views, if only because it can be useful to know why one's enemies choose to be one's enemies and to behave as they do.
Peter Campbell Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality, 37 Eastern Avenue, Reading, Berkshire
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