Homophobic Oakham Town Council

Its very sad when I recieve emails like this one this morning.

I have removed anything from the content that would ID the person writing to me. This person is not the only person who writes to me. there are a lot of Gay men in Oakham who are scared of the Homophobic attitude of some Oakham residents and clearly as in my case members of Oakham Town Council. It is very upsetting and sad I can't publish photographs of myself and friends just as many other millions of users do everyday on the internet!

He says:

had this email twice tonight from
PLEASE PLEASE remove mine ######## pictures from your blog. We both don't want to get targeted for malicious abuse.It's started already.
I don't mind you having our pictures on your Facebook as i assume that you had set your privacy settings on Facebook to friends only, but your blog is open to the wide world and i have to work in this town. I work people who are conected with the people in town that hate you.

As you already have found out, Oakham is a very clicky and homophobic place, and lots of people talk and are related to each other. Its not because i'm hiding in the closet, as you know all my family know about me, but i dont see the need to have to tell everybody about my private life.

I commend you for standing up to the councillors and fighting them all the way.
I''m asking you nicely to remove them, i'm not falling out with you or anything as i like you as a friend, but i'm not interested in town politics and dont want to be dragged into all this by having my picture in your blog, hope you understand.