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Remember me talking about how we are excluded from harassment protection in certain circumstances in the new Equality Bill? Lynne Featherstone asked Ben Summerskill of Stonewall - the representative organisation for UK "gay men and lesbians" - about this. His response:

I can certainly say on the issue of harassment we are not convinced that there is a need for protection in this area.

The good news is, Julie Bindel did not win the Stonewall Journalist of the Year award. The bad news is, she still thinks "It's not me. It's you". In that article she explains the storm she predicted as soon as she got the nomination. A storm she thinks is down purely to her 2004 article. Unfortunately, her nomination and article were only part of a wider problem.

Tomorrow Stonewall is holding it's annual awards and as mentioned previously, one nomination is Julie Bindel for Journalist of the Year. As I've mentioned before, Stonewall are explicity not a trans organisation nor do they seem to be a bisexual organisation at anything other than superficial level and both these facts offend me.

Stonewall have decided to shortlist (not name) Julie Bindel Journalist of the Year 2008. Over the weekend I received two messages on Facebook from the Say No To Stonewall Syndrome group. The first informing me of this decision and pointing me to a lovely article by "Our" Julie - Gender benders, beware.

On Hollyoaks on Monday I noticed Kris wearing a "Some people are gay - get over it" t-shirt. This is a Stonewall campaign. Now, Kris (the character) goes to great pains to remind us that he is a bisexual cross-dresser. He doesn't strike me as the sort of person who would let Ben Summerskill's (Chief Executive of Stonewall) comments and leadership pass.