"The Prime Mister and his hband": Gay lears around the world - unlike kds

Contents:

• SIR EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY BUT NO PAEDOPHILE, SAYS FORMER BROTHEL MADAM
• 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’
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• CLAIMS THAT PM EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY
• "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
• BRA HAS HAD “ONE OR TWO” GAY PRIME MISTERS CLAIMS ACTOR

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

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.

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

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.

Durg Edward Heath’s 51 years Parliament, om 1950 to 2001, no Conservative MP ventured to adm beg gay, though many were. 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.

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

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.

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

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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?

CLAIMS THAT PM EDWARD HEATH 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.

"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD

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. Polil journey: The future Prime Mister leav Kg's Cross for Leeds on a tra 1967‘It’s not impossible that he is a latent or reprsed homosexual.

’A third rmed wrer, Michael McMan — who wrote Tory Pri And Prejudice, a history of the Conservative Party’s relatnship wh the gay movement, and who worked for Sir Edward om 1995 to 2000 — tak a siar but subtly different view.

‘Heath was a gay man who had sacrificed his personal life to his polil reer, exercisg iron self-ntrol and livg a celibate existence as he climbed the “greasy pole” of preferment, ’ he believ.

BRA HAS HAD “ONE OR TWO” GAY PRIME MISTERS CLAIMS ACTOR

’In 2007, Brian Coleman, a senr Tory member of the London Assembly who was then one of the party’s most proment gay policians, wrote the New Statman magaze that Heath had once been warned by police — who were vettg him for membership of the Privy Council — to stop ‘ttagg’ (gog to public plac) for gay his own highly hibed way, he was reachg out ‘The late Ted Heath managed to obta the hight office of state after he was supposedly advised to cease his ttagg activi the Fifti, ’ said Coleman, allegg that the cint was ‘mon knowledge’ Tory circl.

‘We sensed that, his own highly hibed way, he was reachg out to as a gay uple. ’In discsns over home ratn, Heath often exprsed a ‘long-buried gay signer gene’, Jeremy adds. He knew we were a gay uple and we felt he was tryg to reach out to but simply uldn’t fd the words or urage to do so.

’He adds that when they once discsed gay rights (albe a polil ntext), Heath seemed hopelsly nflicted: he admted that he’d long believed an equal age of nsent for gay sex, but had voted agast Parliament to avoid upsettg the Tory me the strange pre-Christmas drks, attend by Mr Heath’s ‘young, ted Oriental man’ and lubrited by champagne and napé, however, was to be the last time the former Prime Mister and the gay entreprenr met. ‘Bluntly, the producer asked me: “Is he gay?