Via @suttonnick #tomorrowspaperstoday
More in the morning, but brace yourself for an avalanche of tired and unfunny Queen/queens jokes.
Also, please bear in mind as this is the Mail the story may, just possibly, have been slightly distorted...
Update: BREAKING! Queen not joining OutRage shock!
To say the rather mundane MoS story doesn't match the hyperbolic/hyperbollocks headline would be almost as much of an overstatement as... well, as the Mail On Sunday's silly headline.
In fine, she's signing the new Commonwealth charter - a formality, she didn't write it FFS - which doesn't even explicitly mention LGBT people or gay rights.
It apprently reads; ‘We are implacably opposed to all forms of discrimination, whether rooted in gender, race, colour, creed, political belief or other grounds.’
But if "other grounds" is being used as a euphemism for sexuality, err, isn't that a bit discriminatory?
Update 2: Astounded by the over-excited comments about this from some gay men on blogs and Twitter etc, like it's the best thing since sliced cock.
Can't believe how grateful some people are for bum-all.
Update 3: This is getting ridiculous. Before long the Twittersphere will have turned this story into 'Queen to sing Somewhere Over The Rainbow with the Gay Men's Chorus...'
NB I could be wrong but as far as I'm thus far aware there is no evidence that references to "sexuality" were omitted so as not to offend Commonwealth countries with anti-gay laws, apart from an unattributed assertion made in the notoriously unreliable Mail - which others appear to have simply repeated.
It could have been taken out by a diplomat or civil servant who thought it might embarrass "her majesty", for example.
It's not something the Foreign & Commonwealth Office would comment on - so where is it from?
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