After all they are BOTH illigal.

There are valid questions to be asked about how venues were chosen for the lock outs (which by the way I oppose) but there’s nothing to link that to police patrols at beats in other commands- so to answer your question, no, I don’t see any ‘gay hate’ picture here.

Peter Mazey- so long as consenting adults are involved and they’re not placing themselves at risk of harm, I don’t pass judgement on what people get up to sexually, whether there’s money involved, how long they’ve known each other, or how many partners might be involved. If beat users were having sex outdoors on private property and it was out of sight of neighbouring properties I would be totally fine with that.

However, the issue here is precisely one of consent. When public spaces and facilities are monopolised for sex, members of the public have their ability to give consent before seeing or hearing that behavior taken away. They have every right to object to beat sex in the same way that they have no right to object to nudity at a legal nude beach, or sex and violence on the screen if they’ve bought a ticket for an R rated movie.

Heterosexuals merely not wanting to encounter gay men having sex is no more homophobic than my not wanting to encounter heterosexuals having sex is heterophobic. Crying homophobia for that alone not only demeans the word but risks making it meaningless.