Letter: Hatred for gays

Thursday 25 June 1998 23:02 BST

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Sir: When attempting to gauge the voice of Teenage Britain about the gay age of consent, you might have widened your net a little. Your representative speakers all happened to be BTec business and finance students at a North London college. Had you bothered to ask a broader cross-section, including those studying English, art music or drama, you might have found a Teenage Britain that is less rabidly homophobic.

MICHAEL STEVENS

Warley, West Midlands

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