Gay ShameBoisterous and uncompromising An important argument, The Times Only a few years ago, it seemed that the fight for gay rights was won in the UK: legal equality was achieved and prejudice was rapidly dying out. Mission accomplished, right? Wrong, argues Gareth Roberts. Homophobia is making a major comeback under the guise of the ideology of 'gender identity'. The enforcers of this new creed insist that attraction to people of the same sex is 'hateful'.