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Contents:

• MY HBAND’S ‘GAY AFFAIR’ WH GOVE
• A 'GAY MAFIA' WHEHALL? SEX IS BACK THE HEADL BRA
• TONY BLAIR POS AS GAY TIM VER STAR AS HE IS NAMED A ‘GAY IN’
• TONY BLAIR: ‘GAY RIGHTS IS A SIGNIFINT PART OF MY LEGACY’

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. 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. 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. 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.

A 'GAY MAFIA' WHEHALL? SEX IS BACK THE HEADL BRA

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.

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. The great gay mour l churns on. After a brief terlu at the start of Prime Mister Tony Blair's ernment, sex has stormed back to the headl the last two weeks, wh the rignatn of one bet mister after an unexplaed cint a gay cisg area and the subsequent "outtg" of two other senr misters as homosexuals.

TONY BLAIR POS AS GAY TIM VER STAR AS HE IS NAMED A ‘GAY IN’

But the velopments have sparked public bate about the role of homosexuals ernment, and is a sign of the morally ambiguo tim that policians rema unsure of how to al wh sex even as they sist that private liv be kept separate om public policy. The media enzy — led by the tabloid Sun — and the ernment's attempt to rpond to , "shows that good old-fashned English hypocrisy, " said David Allison, a spokman for the gay activist group Outrage. " The sex bate began when Ron Davi, then mister for Wal, was robbed of his r and wallet after meetg a stranger a London park known as a cisg area for gay sex.

Reverberatns quickly spread when Matthew Parris, a polil lumnist who happens to be homosexual and a former Conservative member of Parliament, announced durg a televisn terview that Tra Mister Peter Manlson was "certaly gay. "The Brish people will not turn on Manlson bee he is gay, " the newspaper said an edorial. Last weekend, however, Agriculture Mister Nick Brown announced his homosexualy and gave tails of one former relatnship after The Sun's sister tle, the News of the World, threatened to expose the relatnship.

Blair to disclose the number of homosexuals ernment unr the ont-page headle, "Are we beg n by a gay Mafia?

TONY BLAIR: ‘GAY RIGHTS IS A SIGNIFINT PART OF MY LEGACY’

" Other analysts ridiculed the notn of a gay rg si the ernment, notg that Mr. A poll published The Guardian newspaper on Tuday found that 56 percent of rponnts nsired homosexualy morally acceptable, and 52 percent said was acceptable for misters to be openly gay. " In spe of a ll by Lord Tebbt that homosexuals be banned om sensive mistri like the Home Office, even the Conservative Party has refed to sre pots on the issue, reflectg the sire of s lear, William Hague, to soften the party's image and reach out to mory groups.