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Contents:

• 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.

WHY I DON’T BELIEVE THAT TED HEATH WAS GAY

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. 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. 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.

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

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. 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.

CLAIMS THAT PM EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY

'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. Parris, who notorly ‘outed’ the Labour sp-doctor Peter Manlson an terview wh Newsnight 1998, told how he had recently stumbled across a py of Mr Norman’s tobgraphy, No Make-Up: Straight Tal From A Queer book sank whout trace when first published 2006, and failed to attract signifint public attentn a year ago, when Jeremy privately republished and old: Sir Edward as a young man (left) and at a party to mark his 50th year as an MP 2000 (right)Mic man: Ted Heath nducts the London Symphony Orchtra 1974Yet Mr Parris’s champng of the memoir may change all scrib as a ‘marvello’ book, which nsists of ‘a spiky miscellany of vigt of exotic gay and bisexual men, spi and hedonists’. It began the mid-Eighti after Derek Frost, an terr signer who is Jeremy’s civil partner, was hired to help renovate claims that Heath liberately pursued the iendship bee he was drawn to the uple as two openly gay the Fifti he was 'warned to stop ttagg' His book also tells how Jeremy reached the ncln that the former Prime Mister’s polil ambn had forced him to keep his homosexualy secret — and supprs many of his sexual sir.

But first, should be noted that Mr Norman is a long way om beg the first person to wonr if Heath — who was Downg Street om 1970-74, was morn Bra’s first gay prime mister. On the waters: The keen boatman tak a trip on a yacht 1969, the year before enterg 10 Downg StreetHeath, for his part, never directly discsed his sexualy terviews — th allowg mours ocsnally to the Sixti, for example, a Cold War-era Czech fector lled Josef Frolik claimed a memoir that his untry’s secret servic had mounted a secret homosexual blackmail plot agast Heath — then an up-and-g supposed stg revolved around a handsome an virtuoso lled Reberger, who had been ‘schooled the arts of homosexual approach and sctn’ and was allegedly sent to meet Heath was then supposed to have ved Heath back to Prague to play the world-famo an at the cy’s magnificent baroque Church of St Jam. Campbell, whose book me out 1993, found no evince that Heath was gay ‘except for the fatt unsubstantiated mour of an cint at the begng of the war.