Daily Mail journalist Jan Moir has been branded a homophobe after publishing an explicit article of the life of Stephen Gately.
The Press Complaints Commission has received over 21,000 complaints following publication of the article.The columnist spoke of the untimely demise of the gay singer, in circumstances she described as being "more than a little sleazy" reported The Guardian.
Stephen Gately's family is said to be "very disappointed" by the article.
The record surge of complaints for a newspaper to the press watchdog looks certain to rise as the news spreads across the internet on social networking sites.
In her piece on Gately's death, Moir wrote: "The sugar coating on this fatality is so saccharine-thick that it obscures whatever bitter truth lies beneath.
"...I think if we are going to be honest, we would have to admit that the circumstances surrounding his death are more than a little sleazy."
Read the full article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death?.html
Moir's column, which went on to discuss the "happy-ever-after myth of civil marriages" has provoked accusations of homophobia and forced the journalist to issue a statement.
I think it is mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones.
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