No Need to Prove You Love

Deciding to give up alcohol, or take up smoking, is a lifestyle choice. So too is the decision to become vegetarian, move to the seaside or cycle to work.

But when flicking through a glossy catalogue to peruse the various "lifestyle choices" available, you're unlikely to stumble upon the option of being gay.

An individual's sexuality is not an interest-free, buy-now-pay-later commodity. To airily dismiss it as a mere "lifestyle choice" is not only patronising but plain old intolerance disguised as commonsense.