It is not my position and it has never been my position to out people without a very good reason. Everyone has a right to privacy and that right extends to closeted homosexuals. However closeted homosexuals are to be outed when they take a public position against the interests of gay men and lesbians. For example, a closeted homosexual who does the beats and attends gay parties and thinks it his right to get off with the best looking young gay man and then turns around and votes against the decriminalisation of homosexuality deserves to be outed.

[Daphne – It’s a bit too late for that now, isn’t it, Joseph Carmel. I’ve begun to realise that Malta is a hell of a lot more tolerant place than Britain was up to recently. In the past four decades we have had as prime minister a man whose wife had a baby by a priest (while he was prime minister), a president who was a lesbian with two lovers which she kept in separate homes, one in Gozo and one in Malta, migrating between the two, a prime minister (Dom Mintoff) who had a series of prominent escapades, most notoriously with his brother’s wife, a prime minister who was a self-declared atheist who doesn’t believe in marriage (Alfred Sant) and whose own brief marriage had been annulled for this reason…I could go on, but the newsagent closes soon and I have to get out of the house.]

As for Dr George Borg Olivier, let me tell you up front that I had and have the greatest admiration for him. From what I hear he was quite gay friendly and by that I do not mean homosexual. I care little about any family turmoil he and others may have had. We all have skeletons in our cupboards.

[Daphne – You miss the point that his wasn’t a skeleton in the cupboard, but right out in the open, and it’s for that, not for anything else, that I respect him. he didn’t try to conceal things while pretending to be a saint. Not at all. He went to parties with his girlfriend and allowed his wife’s son to keep his surname and be part of the family.]

As for dear Agatha, let me remind you of those two very prominent PN members who did the beats in the 1970s when the Maltese parliament was debating the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Do you not know their names? Sadly they are still alive for me to out them but they are old and the two old bastards will be outed one day. One of them used to take advantage of young men who consulted him. He had offices in Valletta. Another good Christian soldier.

[Daphne – I don’t need you to out them to me, Mr Chetcuti. I know who they are in the same I knew about prime minister Borg Olivier’s situation. And unlike you, I believe ‘outing’ people who don’t want to be outed in an act of spite and aggression against somebody who is harming no one except himself. In certain cases, you might be surprised to discover, they are not even concealing the fact from their immediate family. Why out somebody who is no longer in public life and who hasn’t been in public life for decades? I find ti fascinating that the people who shout about and threaten to out others are invariably homosexual themselves. You never get a heterosexual threatening to out somebody as homosexual. It’s the homosexuals who do this to each other. Now imagine the cries of protest from homosexuals if a heterosexual were to threaten to out ‘one of them’. People like you (bitter and angry homosexuals who use reverse psychology by calling themselves poofters, like anyone gives a damn what you do in bed or who you fancy) think that all heterosexuals are blind, stupid and unobservant, and that we don’t know who’s gay until you tell us. Well, guess what, sweetheart: we can usually tell if a member of the opposite sex is homosexual or bisexual, even if he or she comes with a spouse and children attached. We don’t need you to tell us – and this is not because we can’t work it out for ourselves, but because we really, really don’t care unless she’s/he’s being blackmailed by people who think as you do.]

How come you only ever put that kind of question to people who disagree with you – never to those who do?

Didn’t know Jimi was a triplet.