Letter: Gay Age Of Consent
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Your support makes all the difference.YOUR Tatchell vs Lyttle scenario, (30 April), devoted two full pages to a very tired and now rather irrelevant argument about whether "outing" is justified or not.
This debate went west a good three years ago. The real gay political debate is about whether OutRage!'s direct-action style politics is more effective than the polite lobbying approach of Stonewall (backed as they are by an army of luvvies). Or indeed, whether the two ought to be working in tandem, given that they are broadly trying to achieve the same thing
TIM PURCELL
London SE7
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