Wston Churchill may have been gay was almost charged wh homosexualy after 'vortg' wh soldiers, historian Charlie Higson sensatnally claims | The Sun

Contents:

• WAS WSTON CHURCHILL GAY?
• WSTON CHURCHILL MAY SECRETLY HAVE BEEN GAY
• IT’S A SUGGTN MANY WILL NSIR AN OUTRAGEO – AND UTTERLY IMPLSIBLE – SLUR ON BRA’S GREAT HERO. BUT AN TRIGUG NEW BOOK A RPECTED HISTORIAN ASKS… WAS WSTON CHURCHILL SECRETLY GAY?
• SIR WSTON CHURCHILL MAY HAVE BEEN GAY CLAIMS HISTORIAN AND TV EDY STAR CHARLIE HIGSON
• WSTON CHURCHILL MAY HAVE BEEN GAY AND WAS ALMOST CHARGED WH HOMOSEXUALY AFTER ‘VORTG’ WH SOLDIERS, HISTORIAN CHARLIE HIGSON SENSATNALLY CLAIMS
• LOLLY OWNED SCE 1911CALL US NOW (307) 673-5837PLANNGPRE-ARRANGEMENTSTHE BENEFS OFPLANNG AHEADCREMATN SERVICTRADNAL SERVICAFTERREWHAT TO DO WHENDEATH OCCURSCHILDREN AND GRIEF GRIEFNATNAL SUPPORT GROUPSABOUT USWHY CHOOSE KANEKANE TEAMEVENTSFACEBOOKLASER ENGRAVGMONUMENT GALLERYPLAQUE GALLERYURN GALLERYHOME AND BSOBUARIOBUARIUPG SERVICTTIMONIALSCONTACT USCHAMPNFUNERAL HOMELOLLY OWNED SCE 1911PLANNGPRE-ARRANGEMENTSTHE BENEFS OFPLANNG AHEADCREMATN SERVICTRADNAL SERVICAFTERREWHAT TO DO WHENDEATH OCCURSCHILDREN AND GRIEF GRIEFNATNAL SUPPORT GROUPSABOUT USWHY CHOOSE CHAMPNCHAMPN TEAMEVENTSFACEBOOKOBUARIOBUARIUPG SERVICMICHAEL C. GAY
• WSTON CHURCHILL MAY HAVE BEEN GAY AND WAS ALMOST CHARGED WH HOMOSEXUALY AFTER ‘VORTG’ WH SOLDIERS, HISTORIAN CHARLIE HIGSON SENSATNALLY CLAIMS

WAS WSTON CHURCHILL GAY?

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WSTON CHURCHILL MAY SECRETLY HAVE BEEN GAY

On the other hand, he had strong romantic feelgs which were generally foced on his own possible that the man who led his untry to victory World War II had a gay si? Although Thorpe was gallant wh ‘the ladi’, married twice, and fathered a son, he led a secret homosexual, like all policians of siar persuasn, he had to keep his gay life secret — for all homosexual activy was illegal until 1967, and ntued to attract tense social disapproval for long after that.

A man's man: Durg his reer, Churchill was close to his Mister of Informatn Brendan Bracken (pictured together around 1941)I noticed that the skills which Thorpe veloped as a clanste homosexual (or ‘closet queen’, to e an exprsn which me durg the Sixti) were not dissiar to those which ma him such an effective polician; quick ws, actg abily, a talent for trigue and subterfuge, a pacy for takg lculated Thorpe’s se, there also seemed to be a psychologil lk between the thrill of ‘feastg wh panthers’ (as Osr Wil scribed the dangero allure of sual homosexual enunters) and the general excement of polics. I wonred whether the same might be te of other homosexual or bisexual policians, of which I spected there might be more than generally supposed, bee the fact of their beg actors, risk-takers and triguers would tend to draw them towards the profsn. If their bgraphi are wrten, their fai ually ensure that the homosexual or bisexual aspect of their liv is barely, is fair to pose qutns about the sexualy of long-ad policians who n no longer answer back?

IT’S A SUGGTN MANY WILL NSIR AN OUTRAGEO – AND UTTERLY IMPLSIBLE – SLUR ON BRA’S GREAT HERO. BUT AN TRIGUG NEW BOOK A RPECTED HISTORIAN ASKS… WAS WSTON CHURCHILL SECRETLY GAY?

In the not so distant past, to scribe anyone, let alone a public figure, as a homosexual was a slur, but now that most Wtern societi homosexualy is generally accepted, is surely time to try to unrstand the stra of ‘closet-queenery’ which ns through recent polil certaly impli no disrpect to the often brave and gifted men, and to the tribulatns and disappotments they endured. It is, after all, said to be a very Brish a schoolboy, Churchill may have had some enunter wh the phenomenon at Harrow, which had one of the more homosexual reputatns among the major public then there was a cur episo at the outset of his reer.

His ‘se’ was taken up by the journal, of libel, Tth did not refer directly to the homosexual allegatns, but Bce’s father mentned them Febary 1896 a letter to an officer who was buyg his son’s ary gear.

SIR WSTON CHURCHILL MAY HAVE BEEN GAY CLAIMS HISTORIAN AND TV EDY STAR CHARLIE HIGSON

While still his 20s, Wston Churchill acquired a reputatn, which he would never lose, as a misogynistLs than a year after the trial of Osr Wil, which had end wh his beg imprisoned for homosexual acts, this was the most ser imagable slur. If he did ed have homosexual clatns, Bce’s allegatns would have given him a ser ight and termed him to keep such feelgs firmly unr ntrol. Certaly there were elements Churchill’s make-up which might have aroed spicns of homosexualy.

WSTON CHURCHILL MAY HAVE BEEN GAY AND WAS ALMOST CHARGED WH HOMOSEXUALY AFTER ‘VORTG’ WH SOLDIERS, HISTORIAN CHARLIE HIGSON SENSATNALLY CLAIMS

He had an emotnal personaly, beg easily moved to tears; he was a sybare wh a passn for silk unrwear and he felt self-nsc about his short and hairls body, seekg to pensate for wh darg feats of were also elements his background which might have nurtured a homosexual outlook. They also regard Lord Rosebery, the former Liberal prime mister who was wily moured to be homosexual, as their mentor. ’Was Bracken (who never married) homosexual?

LOLLY OWNED SCE 1911CALL US NOW (307) 673-5837PLANNGPRE-ARRANGEMENTSTHE BENEFS OFPLANNG AHEADCREMATN SERVICTRADNAL SERVICAFTERREWHAT TO DO WHENDEATH OCCURSCHILDREN AND GRIEF GRIEFNATNAL SUPPORT GROUPSABOUT USWHY CHOOSE KANEKANE TEAMEVENTSFACEBOOKLASER ENGRAVGMONUMENT GALLERYPLAQUE GALLERYURN GALLERYHOME AND BSOBUARIOBUARIUPG SERVICTTIMONIALSCONTACT USCHAMPNFUNERAL HOMELOLLY OWNED SCE 1911PLANNGPRE-ARRANGEMENTSTHE BENEFS OFPLANNG AHEADCREMATN SERVICTRADNAL SERVICAFTERREWHAT TO DO WHENDEATH OCCURSCHILDREN AND GRIEF GRIEFNATNAL SUPPORT GROUPSABOUT USWHY CHOOSE CHAMPNCHAMPN TEAMEVENTSFACEBOOKOBUARIOBUARIUPG SERVICMICHAEL C. GAY

A diary he wrote as a young man hted at gogs-on volvg Boy Suts, and among the iends who helped him up the ladr, while also lendg him large sums of money, were two rakish homosexual heirs to fortun and peerag: Gav Henrson and Evan Man. The clud the attractive homosexual Conservative MPs Victor Cazalet, Alan Lennox-Boyd, Ronnie Cartland and Jack Maamara (a great favoure whom he promoted to important ary rol durg World War II).

He was taken wh Anthony En’s handsome private secretary Valente Lawford (later the lover of the male photographer Horst), whom he often ‘borrowed’, and was voted to his wartime stenographer Patrick Kna, still fondly remembered Brighton’s gay the war, he beme fatuated wh Andre Staercke, a sctive young Belgian diplomat who equently found himself summoned to late-night drkg ssns by Churchill. He had been the member of the pre-1914 ernment most vehemently opposed to the om a few relatns wh whom he played rds, and his younger dghters Sarah and Mary, the only women whose pany he enjoyed were pretty young on who flattered and ma a fs of him, such as the De of Rutland’s dghter Diana Cooper the Twenti, his sociale dghter--law Pamela (later Harriman) the Forti, and Wendy Reev, the wife of his lerary agent, the the other hand, he seems to have felt relaxed the pany of homosexuals and regard their (illegal) activi as a subject for good-natured the louche homosexual MP Tom Driberg ed surprise 1951 by marryg an unattractive woman, Churchill quipped: ‘b*****s n’t be choosers.

WSTON CHURCHILL MAY HAVE BEEN GAY AND WAS ALMOST CHARGED WH HOMOSEXUALY AFTER ‘VORTG’ WH SOLDIERS, HISTORIAN CHARLIE HIGSON SENSATNALLY CLAIMS

’In old age, Somerset Mgham is said to have asked Churchill whether he had ever had a homosexual experience.

But an trigug new book a rpected historian asks… Was Wston Churchill secretly GAY? He seemed relaxed pany of homosexuals and regard their (illegal) activi as a subject for good-natured ribaldry. Ined, like all policians of siar persuasn, he had to keep his gay life secret ” for all homosexual activy was illegal until 1967, and ntued to attract tense social disapproval for long after that.

I noticed that the skills which Thorpe veloped as a clanste homosexual (or ˜closet queen’, to e an exprsn which me durg the Sixti) were not dissiar to those which ma him such an effective polician: quick ws, actg abily, a talent for trigue and subterfuge, and a pacy for takg lculated risks.