My sexual orientation.

[The BDI]

The latest being our man in Sydney, TVNZ reporter Andrew McFarlane who is now "proudly out".    Is it compulsory for a TVNZ reporter to be either gay Maori or PI ?

I think you've misunderstood the point of the recent article about McFarlane.  The point was not that he is gay - that hasn't been a secret-  but that he gets hate mail because of his gayness.   Your pearl clutching would be better directed towards the hate-mailers.

I think you've missed the point... if he didn't insist on telling the world at large that he was gay..... he may not get hate mail.