Back in 1991 The Times published a column about gay rights by Janet Daly. Headlined ‘The Sad Fraud of Gay Equality’, it used precisely the same analogy with cults that Turner reheated in 2019. ‘Now gay life has become an aggressive freemasonry, for which recruits are required to stand up and be counted,’ Daly wittered; ‘the price [homosexuality] exacts in the form of childlessness, instability and now mortal danger from Aids is not something that most sixteen-year-olds have the capacity to evaluate.’26
