There are plenty of people in my "dating pool" (is that really what you call gay men?) that i don't want to date. I think you should probably just grow a backbone if you're that affected by couple of extreme voices. The issue is in your head.

Break that down. "Our lives"? How is someone transitioning buying "our lives"? They're not, they're living their life. How does it impact you or me if someone else lives their life and tries to fit into society's structures in a way that's more comfortable for them?

Because I don't think it's true. I go to gay bars, clubs, even saunas occasionally and it's just not true. What people fought for was the right to love or sleep with who you want and we have that. Nobody is forcing you to fancy anyone you don't.

I am a gay man. Most of my friends are gay men. I don't hate gay men.

It would be a really niche thing to make up!

No worries!

Ah! Yes I love a museum, but I don't think they have a particularly British/English character, each is a very different thing, and the charms of rural churches and city pubs include that they are in every village/on every city block, to pop into for half an hour.

I don't understand!

It's like the M&S thing: It's not enough that one customer was uncomfortable, complained and hence was politely offered bespoke assistance. No, M&S must change its policies in case someone else endures the trauma of being spoken to, briefly, in public, by someone who might be trans.

Where's the accountability? The scrutiny? "Trust me" yeah no sorry if there are things you can't say, cope with people peacefully objecting. What an insane waste of resources. What bonkers priorities.

I've seen this twice in my life and if I remember right yes it was late but not absolutely end of night late

I wouldn't take me at my word though ;)

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I'm all for playing around with stuff but yeah my eyes really rolled when I saw this casting announcement, for the reasons you give and also for the off-the-peg obviousness of it. Side-note: years ago at Birmingham Rep I saw Bette Bourne in Present Laughter, in drag, and he was fab.

But the publisher seems to have lasted a decent while, because you see older illustrations and then very clearly 80s ones in the same sort of format.

The Scottish one (which is what started me hunting/collecting them has 1964 copyright but I think bought/written a couple of decades later. The cottage one looks 50s style but I suspect more like an 80s reprint (it hasn't arrived from the guy I'm buying it from yet).