Gately's

"Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately's last night raise troubling questions about what happened."

Archive 2009-10-01 Hal Duncan 2009

You see, Jan, it's precisely the fact that you read Gately's death in terms of "dark appetites" and "private vice" that led to the uproar against your article.

Archive 2009-10-01 Hal Duncan 2009

"Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately's last night raise troubling questions about what happened."

An Open Letter to Jan Moir Hal Duncan 2009

We, the Elders of Sodom, are writing to you in the hope that you'll reconsider your response to the widespread criticism of your Daily Mail article, "Why There Was Nothing 'Natural' About Stephen Gately's Death" (subsequently retitled "A Strange, Lonely and Troubling Death".)

An Open Letter to Jan Moir Hal Duncan 2009

Anyway, that's the case made by those gays, but unless the following sentence is a complete non sequitur, the lesson you want us to learn from Gately's death seems to be that this just ain't the way it is.

An Open Letter to Jan Moir Hal Duncan 2009

And why exactly is Gately's death even comparable to McGee's suicide?

An Open Letter to Jan Moir Hal Duncan 2009

For you it seems "unlikely ... that what took place in the hours immediately preceding Gately's death - out all evening at a nightclub, taking illegal substances, bringing a stranger back to the flat, getting intimate with that stranger - did not have a bearing on his death."

An Open Letter to Jan Moir Hal Duncan 2009

You see, Jan, it's precisely the fact that you read Gately's death in terms of "dark appetites" and "private vice" that led to the uproar against your article.

An Open Letter to Jan Moir Hal Duncan 2009

You see, we got that, Jan. Gately's death raises "questions" for you.

An Open Letter to Jan Moir Hal Duncan 2009

It's the fact that by voicing those suspicions you were, to all intents and purposes, calling the bereaved liars before Gately's body was even in the ground.

An Open Letter to Jan Moir Hal Duncan 2009