My hband’s ‘gay affair’ wh Gove | The Spectator

Contents:

• MICHAEL GOVE CLASH WH EX CHILDREN’S MISTER OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• MY HBAND’S ‘GAY AFFAIR’ WH GOVE
• MICHAEL GOVE AT LONDON GAY PRI IN 1993 IN BBC ARCHIVE FOOTAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: BORIS JOHNSON AND MICHAEL GOVE GIVE BACKG
• GAY MARRIAGE: BORIS JOHNSON AND MICHAEL GOVE GIVE BACKG
• GAY MARRIAGE: HOW DID TORY LEARSHIP CONTENRS VOTE?
• MICHAEL GOVE 'TOLD ME CHURCH OF ENGLAND ULD BE SUED OVER GAY MARRIAGE LAW'
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• MICHAEL GOVE CLASH WH EX CHILDREN’S MISTER OVER GAY MARRIAGE

MICHAEL GOVE CLASH WH EX CHILDREN’S MISTER OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Michael Gove clashed wh his former Children’s Mister today as they argued over the implitns of gay marriage for teachers. In a prickly exchange, Tim Loughton challenged Mr Gove about protectns for teachers who did not support the right of homosexual upl to wed. He asked the Edutn Secretary, who was givg evince to MPs their first ssn of sctisg the same-sex marriage Bill, whether would be classed as “appropriate teachg” for a schoolmaster to tell pupils that they did not believe gay marriage to be on a par wh heterosexual marriage.

MY HBAND’S ‘GAY AFFAIR’ WH GOVE

The story was wrten as if somehow Williamson thought a gay romance shed light on the otherwise explible succs of Vote Leave.

Perhaps he imaged they were all fuelled by homoerotic passn the manner of the Spartans.

Over the past few s I mt have heard many dozens of stori about policians or actors beg secretly gay. Gay mours follow like vapour trails the wake of any star: polics, sport, Hollywood, and I’ve never before psed for long enough to wonr if they’re nonsense.

MICHAEL GOVE AT LONDON GAY PRI IN 1993 IN BBC ARCHIVE FOOTAGE

But what if almost all of the endls ‘sir’ stori about secretly gay celebs are as bog as the Dom/Gove story? It’s a rare polil lear who isn’t ‘known’ to be homosexual by someone or other — exceptg Cameron, for some reason, who perhaps don’t have the imagatn to be gay.

GAY MARRIAGE: BORIS JOHNSON AND MICHAEL GOVE GIVE BACKG

There’s many who’ll swear Obama’s marriage is a sham, and that he was a equent visor to gay snas his Chigo days.

GAY MARRIAGE: BORIS JOHNSON AND MICHAEL GOVE GIVE BACKG

I terviewed the late fat chef Clarissa Dickson Wright a few years before she died, and she told me that she believed Tony Blair to have had gay relatnships.

What’s behd this great yearng need of ours for famo men and women to be gay? There was a time when homosexual stars laid low for fear of sufferg profsnally; perhaps some policians still do. Though we thk of ourselv as non-judgmental, still seems excgly transgrsive to that someone might be gay.

GAY MARRIAGE: HOW DID TORY LEARSHIP CONTENRS VOTE?

If this were jt about illic sex or fily, there’d be mours oked up about settled gay upl havg straight affairs, perhaps a secret affair between Elton John and Lady Gaga for stance, but no one has any tert that.

MICHAEL GOVE 'TOLD ME CHURCH OF ENGLAND ULD BE SUED OVER GAY MARRIAGE LAW'

The great gay mour l churns on. The then-journalist was reportg at the annual LGBT march at a time when the age of nsent was 21 for homosexual sex and 16 for heterosexual.

“Last year, hop were raised that the age of nsent for homosexualy and heterosexualy would be equalised, but many now fear the ernment won’t make a move. “So, what are the chanc of the change the law that mak young gay love a sex crime? ”Jt one year later - durg John Major's Conservative ernment - the Hoe of Commons voted to rce the gay male age of nsent to 18.

Dpe this, many were disappoted that had not been rced to age of nsent for homosexual sex wasn't lowered aga until 2001, durg Tony Blair's reign, when was rced to fally equal heterosexual sex. “Marriage is not unrmed by extendg to gay people – is rerced by cludg everyone equally.

OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

In a Sunday Telegraph letter the group, which clus Edutn Secretary Michael Gove, said relig bodi should be able to nduct gay marriag but should not be pelled to do so.

Speakg favour of same sex marriage, Mr Cameron has said he do not want gay upl to be exclud om a "great stutn". Labour lear Ed Miliband and puty prime mister Nick Clegg also support gay marriage church.

MICHAEL GOVE CLASH WH EX CHILDREN’S MISTER OVER GAY MARRIAGE

"We regnise that civil partnerships were an important step forward givg legal regnn to same sex ptn, David Cameron: "I don't want gay people to be exclud om a great stutn""But civil partnerships are not marriag, which exprs a particular and universally unrstood mment. "And, drawg on his personal experienc, Mr Herbert wrote the Sunday Telegraph: "Civil partnerships for gay upl were a great step forward.