This Has Got To Be A Belated April Fools’ Day Joke

Or else a story published in The Onion which has been badly cross-linked and emerges masquerading as a story in The (London) Times:

Theatreland will have to give up its bedroom secrets in the quest for funding, under new Arts Council requirements. Organisations applying for grants are being asked to state how many board members are bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, lesbian or whose inclinations are “not known”.

Audrey Roy, the director of grants, said that the council needed to understand who its audience was and to whom its funding was going. “We see diversity as broader than race, ethnicity, faith and disability,” she said. Question 22 of the Grants for the Arts forms, relating to sexual orientation, was not compulsory, she added, although the form states that it must be answered.

Oh please let that be either a belated April Fools’ Day joke, or a misattributed The Onion story skewering PC ideology by casting it in reductio ad absurdum form (as if PC ideology wasn't ad absurdum in any form).

Alas, the report is no joke, and the British Arts Council, in deadly earnest.

Imbeciles!

RTWT here.