Portillo did not tell all, says gay ex-lover | Margaret Thatcher | The Guardian

Contents:

• FACT CHECK: IS MICHAEL PORTILLO GAY? WIFE OR PARTNER -EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE 'GREAT BRISH RAILWAY JOURNEYS' PRENTER
• PORTILLO DID NOT TELL ALL, SAYS GAY EX-LOVER
• GAY PAST RETURNS TO HNT PORTILLO
• MICHAEL PORTILLO NET WORTH B, AGE, WIFE, CHILDREN, SIBLGS, GAY, BOOKS
• IS MICHAEL PORTILLO GAY?
• PORTILLO ADMS GAY `EXPERIENC'
• PORTILLO'S FORMER GAY PARTNER IS HIV POSIVE
• FACT CHECK: IS MICHAEL PORTILLO GAY? WIFE OR PARTNER -EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE 'GREAT BRISH RAILWAY JOURNEYS' PRENTER

FACT CHECK: IS MICHAEL PORTILLO GAY? WIFE OR PARTNER -EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE 'GREAT BRISH RAILWAY JOURNEYS' PRENTER

Michael Portillo took the gamble of his life last night by admtg to "some homosexual experienc" as a young man. I had some homosexual experienc as a young person.

There are those people who are homosexual, or were homosexual, who are married and are aaid of be g brand hypocr. Fact Check: Is Michael Portillo Gay? Ex-nservative polician Michael Portillo broke the media after admtg to havg a homosexual experience spe not beg gay.

PORTILLO DID NOT TELL ALL, SAYS GAY EX-LOVER

Michael Portillo is not gay. In an terview wh the London Tim, he did nfs to havg homosexual experience as a young man. He ntued his streak of astonishg cizens by votg y to the equal right of gay people.

TODAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY: On September 9, 1999, NOT GAY former Brish Defence Secretary Michael Portillo (pictured BEING NOT GAY), an terview announcg his n an upg by-electn, adms that he had "some homosexual experienc as a young person, " but is NOT GAY.

Michael Portillo fac renewed prsure over his private life today when his former gay lover cricis him for implyg that his "homosexual experienc" were nfed to his stunt days at Cambridge.

GAY PAST RETURNS TO HNT PORTILLO

Wrg today's Guardian, Nigel Hart, who nducted an eight-year affair termtently wh Mr Portillo the 1970s, acc him of "beg somewhat enomil wh the actualé" for scribg his homosexualy as youthful outburst will irrate Mr Portillo who is attemptg a polil eback the Kensgton and Chelsea byelectn. The former fence secretary said his homosexualy had ceased long before he was elected as an MP 1984.

Stunts at Portillo's Cambridge llege, Peterhoe, affected (acrdg to a ntemporary), "a style - mp some, cidly homosexual others".

MICHAEL PORTILLO NET WORTH B, AGE, WIFE, CHILDREN, SIBLGS, GAY, BOOKS

In retrospect I n see that this was really Malvol's law applied to sexualy: some are born homosexual, some achieve homosexualy, and some have homosexualy thst upon, I don't thk that the "tolerance" of the Kensgton and Chelsea Conservativ is the tertg issue here. Is he to be nmned bee he - as a Defence Secretary wh a gay past - allowed the expulsn of gay people om the Armed Forc?

And should he be pilloried over his recent opposn to the rctn of the male homosexual age of nsent to 16, when he himself probably had gay sex unr the then lim of 21? "Michael Portillo, " he argu, "is wily spised wh the lbian and gay muny bee he has repeatedly voted agast gay equaly". Not havg sufficient time to nvass the views of my lbian iends on this subject, I did manage to get through to a gay pal on his mobile on an InterCy tra.

IS MICHAEL PORTILLO GAY?

" I do not know this, but I spect that by "d" homosexualy Mike is signallg that there was no sodomy. It mt be nceivable also for a gay person to buy the argument that the ary simply works better whout overt homosexualy the ranks. When I was a young Communist I knew a gay Stalist who averred that Rsian anti-gay laws were jtified.

PORTILLO ADMS GAY `EXPERIENC'

His homosexualy was, he was sure, a disease of late palist society, and would eventually be magicked away the bracg air of post-revolutnary Socialism. So fet teenage Tory homosexuals, we should all be on the hunt for teenage Tory dg sellers.

PORTILLO'S FORMER GAY PARTNER IS HIV POSIVE

MICHAEL Portillo's polil eback the wake of his admissn to a gay past suffered a major jolt last night when his former homosexual lover - allegedly of eight years - me forward and nounced the former Tory Defence Secretary as a hypocre.

Mr Nigel Hart explaed that their relatnship turned osty when 1994 Mr Portillo voted the Commons agast lowerg the age of gay sex to 16. Sce at the time, the age of nsent for homosexuals was then 21, the act was technilly illegal as Mr Portillo was 19 at the time. However, Mr Hart said he had asked his lover durg their affair if beg gay would harm his polil reer.

FACT CHECK: IS MICHAEL PORTILLO GAY? WIFE OR PARTNER -EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE 'GREAT BRISH RAILWAY JOURNEYS' PRENTER

Firstly, Mr Portillo's admissn to havg had ''homosexual experienc'' his youth unrstat a gay relatnship the 1970s that allegedly lasted eight years.

Sendly, the charge of hypocrisy: g as do om his former gay lover, this will some people's ey add weight to the charge. They had met December, 1971, at a gay party held by a London Universy don when Mr Portillo was an 18-year-old schoolboy, said Mr Hart. ''I felt he had other homosexual affairs.