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Its no wonder we are in the gutter

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    #62
    dazco
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭dazco


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    I don't know the ins or outs of how he came out... if it was media pushing him out, he still would of had to make a statement about it and accept it out in public. you also have to take into account, the media were quick to blame what's taken as being the "stereotypical" view of hards drugs and unsafe sex that's meant to be rife in the gay commuinity as a cause leading to his death.

    Saying yer gay with the possiblity of a backlash like that... is almost as if yer admiting to being guilty regardless of the circumstances you get ousted...

    In all fairness though I think Wilde makes a far better gay icon than Gately, he went through a lot more than a few articles getting printed about him, no disrespect. Also Wilde is incredibly more talented. Yet Gately just made the list, once again no disrespect to him, 'cause he died last year.


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    #63
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,316 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Apples and oranges, putting historical figures, musicians and writers in the same category will never work. They can't be compared, there aren't even any criteria set down as to what makes someone 'great'.


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    KevinVonSpiel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭KevinVonSpiel


    kowloon wrote: »
    Apples and oranges...

    I wondered where you were going with that...


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    #65
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    kowloon wrote: »
    Apples and oranges, putting historical figures, musicians and writers in the same category will never work. They can't be compared, there aren't even any criteria set down as to what makes someone 'great'.

    I suppose it's probably just that people who voted for it were uneducated and didn't know who a lot of the historical people on the list were.

    I don't see dummies knowing who Oscar Wilde or Yeats are either.

    Sad really.


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