Councillor Susan Joy tells of hostile gay men in the gay clubs she visits then writes of having a good time dancing in a diverse city.

Ms Joy seems to drift in and out of opinions with the tide.

If my own view is as narrow as Coun Joy claims, from where is all that hostility toward women in gay clubs that she reports coming?

Are we to assume straight women can only dance with gay men in gay space? Not very diverse so long as it only operates as far as the dance floors of gay venues. My point is, why only the one-way flow into gay space? After all, we have considerably less of it.

If Ms Joy is not aware of it, there is a women's bar in Brighton's St James Street. It operates restrictions on male numbers after 5pm.Is such a restriction only acceptable to the councillor when it is imposed by women on men to control male numbers?

Perhaps we might ask the 150 victims of homophobic violence in Brighton in the past two years if they consider the city as accepting and diverse as some would have us believe.

-Johnny Lord, Montpelier Street, Brighton