Contents:
- 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?
- 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?
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.
WSTON CHURCHILL MAY SECRETLY HAVE BEEN GAY
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. In 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.