Johann Hari: Another Country

Johann Hari has penned an article for Huffington Post, apparently together with Sir Elton of John.
It's sad but it's hard to read anything by Hari now without first sniggering, and then wondering if he's made any of it up.
And as I've said before, it looks like he's trying to avoid writing about anything that's even vaguely controversial or contentious - or interesting.
Career. Fucked.
And like his (non) apology in The Independent in September it seems ultimately self-serving - part of his own PR campaign, his attempt at public rehabiltation, where the article's subtext is "Please like me, I'm nice."
The piece is called;
'There's a Global War Against the Right of Gay People to Live and Love. We Need to Fight Back'
Well, not really.
Gay men don't tend to be persecuted for "living and loving".
They almost always get arrested for fucking and sucking.
The article is trumpeting the Kaleidoscope Trust - a UK-based group campaigning for gay rights in other countries.
Hari/John claim until now there has been a lack of an internationalist perspective on gay rights - "a strange hole in Western gay politics."
Eh?
Speak for yourself, Johann.
Has Sir Elton forgotten how often he - to name but one person - has drawn attention to the plight of lesbians and gay men in other countries.
Here's but one example.
They tell us about Ghana; "Imagine a thousand Matthew Shephards, lynched with the approval of the state..."
A ridiculous exaggeration.
We are told about the murdered Ugandan gay activist David Kato, by way of example.
Undoubtedly a brave and admirable man - but we do not know if his murder was motivated by homophobia
And in place of argument we get banal cliche; "[Homosexuality] is as universal and as harmless a quirk as left-handedness."
Really. Is this the best you can do?
Poor sod.