Gay Pride Parades are a celebration of grotesqueries. One would think that the ostensible desire for homosexuality to be absorbed into the zeitgeist of humdrum social acceptability would be antipathetic to publicly displaying the oddities that inhabit the fringes of the gender demolishment movement. But no, every year, in every country that will allow it, there is the hideous cavorting of those intent on impressing the rest of us with their normality.

What is even stranger, is the attendance of politicians who obviously view the whole exercise as a means of attracting votes. In the UK, political parties are vying with each other to exhibit their gayness by abandoning themselves to the revelry.

Gordon Brown even tries to smile, which is a dreadful mistake.