Minority report
The Queen signed a new Commonwealth charter denouncing ‘discrimination of all kinds’, leading campaigners to suggest that she was supporting gay marriage. Peter Tatchell asserted that 6 per cent of the population are gay. What other estimates are there?
— 37% by Dr Alfred Kinsey in 1953 (strictly an estimate of men who achieved orgasm with another male at some point)
— 21% by a Gallup survey in 2002
— 10% according to Kinsey in 1948
— 6.1% in a scientific paper by A.M. Johnson et al published in Nature, 1992 (used by HM Treasury and DTI in a study of the effects of the Civil Partnerships Act)
— 4% by the Williams Institute (US) 2011
— 1% from the Office of National Statistics’ Integrated Household Survey in 2010
Equal terms
Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were both jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice.
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