As a gay Ugandan, Frank Mugisha has endured insults from strangers, hate messages on his phone, police harassment and being outed in a tabloid as one of the country's "top homos".
Cue a bout of po-faced rectitude that might make a tabloid blush: "One is bound to wonder what advice he gave to Charles as the royal marriage became a facade...".. One is bound to wonder nothing of the sort, but the gist is clear.
He was eager, however, for the spotlight, trying to interest a tabloid in one case.
"There is no such thing as The First Lady of Downing Street" in the same manner as American first ladies, the columnist Anne McElvoy wrote in The Evening Standard, also a tabloid, but one that is often critical of the Blairs.
One CNN vice president, Keith McCallister, told The Times's Bill Carter that "this is not a tabloid story" but one "that raises major issues about the foreign policies of two countries" and "involves serious legal issues".
Oprah Winfrey got attention for all the wrong reasons when her stylist told a tabloid reporter at one show that his client has to wear "miracle clothes - whatever gives the slimmer look".
Days later, Cole was 'outed' on a tabloid front page as one of the guilty parties.
For the tabloids, one story has trumped the US presidential choice: Prince Harry's romance with an American actor, Meghan Markle.
While I doubt my bike app is angling to embarrass me in the tabloids one day, some of the same data that can leak out of ride-sharing habits extends to the simple bike app.
"Demand to Make Japan 53rd State," screams a headline on a tabloid thrust at the audience at one point by dancers rushing up and down the aisles.
