Is she qualified to cast such doubts on these medical findings? No, she is not. She was a resturant reviewer, for crying out loud! Her article is riddled with misinformation that insults anyone who has died of a similar condition – and I believe that is something like 5-10 people a week in the UK.

I would add that the fans of boyzone have every right to also complain and be disgusted. While no fan myself – boyzone were too sacchrine for me – everyone in the UK with a passing interest in music knows that boyzone always sang live. Gately was a good singer: for Jan Moir to say he ‘could barely carry a tune in a Louis Vuitton trunk’ and ‘He was the Posh Spice of Boyzone, a popular but largely decorous addition’ will of course cause anger.

Those were the words of Jan Moir, commenting on last year’s Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row, which led to both Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, the men responsible for the prank telephone calls, being suspended.

In fact, the publication of Moir’s Gately article occurred one year to the day after the prank phone calls made by Ross and Russell in Russell’s radio show.

It would appear we do not merely have a bigot on our hands: we have a hypocrite as well. You should always careful what you say Ms. Moir, else some day your words will come back and bite you in the ass.

The reason Moir’s article is creating such a shitstorm in the UK and Ireland is precisely because she snidely attacked a dead man who hadn’t even been buried and happened to be gay. In 300 hundred years of British newspaper history, this one article has attracted more complaints than any other thing published. And it’s not all gays and boy-band fans – it’s people of all races, creeds, ages, classes and beliefs. And they’re making these complaint because they recognise Moir is just plain wrong.

This frakas has nothing to do with Gately’s sex life and everything to do with him being treated equally. Wouldn’t you love to have the same thing happen where you live instead of having to worry about other people’s approval for what you do in bed?

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The prurience in Moir’s writing reveals her preconception that someone like Gately could only die in a cloud of salaciousness, not a tragic, acute medical condition. He deserves no benefit of the doubt. Typical sort of pabulum one would expect to find in a right-wing rag read by drooling imbeciles.

The furore isn’t anything to do with her calling the death suspicious but rather the general tone of the article; the sniping comments and the suggestion that being gay automatically means your lungs fill with fluid and your marriage collapses.

More lazy writing here at Queerty means, as ever, that the comments are filled with crap which has nothing to do with the story at hand.

People in the UK, Ireland and the rest of Europe stood up and protested against this piece of filth because Stephen was a well-liked performer and Moir’s attack took place before he had even been buried. Her hate-filled diatribe was nothing but rumour, supposition and prejudice, masquerading as journalism… like much of the Daily Mail’s content.

Sadly, the majority of people who protested against Moir and her article aren’t likely to be existing Daily Mail readers, so it’s unclear if this will have any impact on sales, direct or through advertising space.

RIP Stephen.

If Moir were decent and respectful, she wouldn’t make allegations of this kind but working for that rag the Daily Mail, what can one expect? Nothing more than yellow gutter journalism, not even journalism in my view. Lets not delude ourselves, this is nothing more than homophobia. If people have nothing good to say about anyone who has died, say nothing, but they should look in the mirror before they start speculating about anything. She’s a disgusting piece of work. I wonder how she’d feel if it were her son or daughter, heaven forbid. Can you imagine how this young man’s parents feel and what they’re going through? Clearly Moir and the Daily Mail do not.

And for those of you who are straight and have come onto this site to make a nasty comment, well FUCK OFF.

You should be ashamed of what you just wrote and this comment should be erased from Queerty.

“One sad bastard dead and another laughing all the way to the bank”..

How disgusting!….How pathetic of you…

You got no idea what happened that night.

You got no idea how much Andy Cowles is in pain and ravaged by guilt and the loss of the love of his life.

How fucking dare you treating Stephen Gately of “One Sad Bastard”.

You make me sick .

Stephen Gately was a beautiful person and a decent human being and he and andy loved each other. they didn’t commit any crime, they didn’t hurt anyone, they had the same life and needs as everybody else . they were not living their life differently that anyone else and it might come as a shock to you, but nobody laughs “all their way to the bank” today.

Have some manners, have some respect !

How any of us , gays, can judge the life and the death of Stephen Gately? Judge their attachment for each other?

Stephen was a human being,and an extraordinary one. Nothing more , nothing less…

Sudden death in apparently healthy young adults happens. It happens enough for there to be currently a campaign in Britain encouraging people to be screened for underlying heart defects. It is often hereditary. In my professional capacity I have seen several cases, including, distressingly a 14 year old girl, bought in from school after collapsing during games.

Statistically the overwhelming majority of victims will be heterosexual. There is no discussion as to whether their ‘lifestyle’ contributed to their unexpected death. Just sympathy for their grieving family and friends.

The postmortem on Stephen found no evidence of drugs or alcohol contributing to his death, and he was known to be someone who rarely drank alcohol. He did not ‘choke on his own vomit’ as some lurid reports claimed. He died of sudden pulmonary oedema (fluid on the lungs) caused most likely by an electrical abnormality in the heart which caused a fatal arrhythmia.
Where he was sleeping, who with, what he did in the hours leading to his sudden death are irrelevant.

While Stephen’s family, friends and fans are reeling from this tragedy, Jan Moir decided to write an article implying that he could not have died of natural causes, that it must be related to his ‘sleazy’ gay lifestyle, and that same sex marriages in general are likely to lead to this sort of outcome. This on the basis of two completely unrelated examples, presumably straight people never commit suicide when relationships break down, or die unexpectedly of heart problems??.

If that isn’t homophobia I don’t know what is

That is exactly the kind of ridiculous conjecture that fuels articles like Jan Moir’s. Obviously Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is not on your radar.

Whatever Gately and his partner did in bed – so long as it was consensual – is their affair and no-one elses. And just for the record, I know many gays in civil partnerships who make a difference between emotional monogamy and sexual monogamy, so I don’t find the idea of a threesome particularly shocking.

I find it far more shocking that any gay person in their right mind would support Moir. She’s ignored all the facts publicly available (ie that he died of natural causes) and instead called Gately’s mother a liar and insulted the professionalism of the coroner. And why has she done it? Merely to mount an attack on the gay men of Britain and Ireland.

As Moir is someone who trades in hatred and hyperbolic outrage, it’s impossible to describe the sheer joy of watching the public skewer her with her own poisonous weapons.

And I think that if Stephen hadn’t been openly gay then the criticisms about his lifestyle would still be valid: taking drugs, drinking heavily and then inviting a complete stranger to your home would be considered loose behaviour if the person in question were gay or not.

This is all fuss about nothing, and I bet the Daily Mail is appreciative of the publicity..

Its good their finally feeling some heat over what they think they can get away with.