Writing up a storm

The Noughties: From Glitz to Gloom

“All things being equal, if it came to a choice between placing a child with a heterosexual couple or a gay couple, I really think the adoption authorities have no right to send that child to a same sex couple. Which formula produced this child? It was a man and a woman. I’m sorry; it’s inconvenient but that’s the fact,” she says in her soft voice which becomes animated when she’s driving home a point. What also annoyed the gay community was Power’s ridiculing of drag artist and gay activist, Miss Panti, aka Rory O’Neill.

“I basically called him a bloke in a dress.”