1998 (in column for The Telegraph):
“Weep, O ye shirt-makers of Jermyn Street, ye Cool Brittannia tailors and whatever exists of human finer feeling. In the Ministry of Sound, the tank-topped bumboys blub into their pils”
2000:
“We don’t want our children being taught some rubbish about homosexual marriage being the same as normal marriage.”
April 2000 (in Spectator article): Boris Johnson attacks “Labour’s appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.“
July 2000 (in Telegraph column titled “Stand up and fight like a man, you euro pansy”):
“She was last week’s victim of the ‘rent-boys of politics’, to use Mr Follett’s interesting phrase.”
August 2000 (in Telegraph column):
“It is still more compassionate to give pensioners more of their own money, by cutting their taxes, rather than bribing them with cheap television licences; and it is more sensitive to spare parents’ anxieties, than to allow Left-wing local authorities to waste taxpayers’ money on idiotic and irrelevant homosexual instruction.”
2001 (in book “Friends, Voters, Countrymen”):
“If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog.”
2007 (in Telegraph column):
“Bring out yer policies, you big bunch of pansies.”
Read more: Boris Johnson’s history of racism, sexism, homophobia, and lying.
