Sir Edward Heath was gay but no paedophile, says former brothel madam - ITV News

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• SIR EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY BUT NO PAEDOPHILE, SAYS FORMER BROTHEL MADAM
• WHY I DON’T BELIEVE THAT TED HEATH WAS GAY
• TED HEATH'S GAY IEND CLAIMS THE EX-MP HID HIS TE SEXUALY HIS ENTIRE LIFE
• BROTHEL OWNER KNEW EDWARD HEATH AS ‘SHY, GAY MAN’
• CLAIMS THAT PM EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY

SIR EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY BUT NO PAEDOPHILE, SAYS FORMER BROTHEL MADAM

But was his cisn to rema a bachelor and whhold any public ditn of an tert sex that fuelled 50 years of speculatn about a secret gay life. Instead of claims that Heath was gay, Wiltshire police have vtigated accatns that he was a paedophile whose crim were vered up by tablishment figur. Private Eye magaze referred to him as “Sailor Ted”, a reference to his love of yachtg, but also an alln to his alleged were no “out” lbian or gay policians parliament at the time, and anyone who was exposed for beg lbian or gay uld expect to be hound out of their job.

Michael McMan, an thor of a book on the Conservative party’s attu towards gay rights who worked for Heath for five years, wrote that his former employer “was a gay man who had sacrificed his personal life to his polil reer, exercisg iron self-ntrol and livg a celibate existence” cled to talk about his personal life until his ath, sistg that was “not somethg one should talk about.

WHY I DON’T BELIEVE THAT TED HEATH WAS GAY

The mours that he was homosexual had been around so long that when I was at universy I was jokily rmed that the Dean of our llege, who was also gay, was Edward Heath’s lover – a claim for which there was no evince, by the way.

Until he was 51 years old, all homosexual activy between men, even nsensual sex private, was punishable by a prison sentence. Even when nsensual gay sex was partially crimalised, 1967, Parliament did not tend that should bee socially acceptable.

TED HEATH'S GAY IEND CLAIMS THE EX-MP HID HIS TE SEXUALY HIS ENTIRE LIFE

There was a wily held assumptn that all male gays were paedophil, and therefore a menace to young the exposure of the spi Guy Burgs, John Vassall and others, there was the add spicn that any gay man a sensive job was an actual or potential traor. Arrts of gay men on one pretext or another ntued apace. Durg Edward Heath’s 51 years Parliament, om 1950 to 2001, no Conservative MP ventured to adm beg gay, though many were.

The moment Edward Heath sat down the first class seat next to me on the flight om Stland to London, shook my hand and said ‘Jonathan, is a pleasure to meet you’ I termed to flirt wh him orr to fd out whether the mours that he was gay were te. He was a bachelor an era when all bachelors were assumed to be gay. And remember this was a time when to be gay was to be a crimal, equently leadg to jail and even ath.

BROTHEL OWNER KNEW EDWARD HEATH AS ‘SHY, GAY MAN’

As a teenager I’d been horrified to watch the film Victim starrg the wonrful (gay) actor Dirk Bogar and to realise that gay or bisexual mal, as I was, were dog somethg totally illegal. Could someone as high and mighty as Prime Mister have actually been homosexual?

Everyone said Heath was gay. I knew hundreds of gay men and women, still do.

CLAIMS THAT PM EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY

A young, ted, oriental man, who seemed to be a close iend and nfidant [of Heath] did we know Ted was gay?

Specifilly, the thorny qutn of whether this artistilly cled, lifelong bachelor spent his 51-year polil reer ncealg the fact he was — a proment and pneerg gay entreprenr who once owned Burke’s Peerage gui to proment fai and found Heaven, London’s most famo gay nightclub — certaly thks so. 'Puttg Bra First': Prime Mister Edward Heath may have chosen a reer over a romantic life as a gay man, a close iend of his has claimedIned, havg known Mr Heath for two s, he believ the former prime mister was a ‘eply closeted’ homosexual.

‘How did we know Ted was gay? ‘It’s lled “gaydar”, the sixth sense that’s ma up of gture, looks and a list of characteristics mon gay men. ’Controversially, Jeremy — who now ns the Soho Gyms cha — suggts that the ‘young, ted, oriental man’ he met at Anlls 2004 was, fact, Heath’s secret trigug views were brought to the attentn of a wir dience recently, when they were shared wh rears of The Tim by Matthew Parris, a former Tory MP and Parliamentary sketch-wrer who is one of Bra’s most famo gay mentators.