Why I don't believe that Ted Heath was gay | The Spectator

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• TED HEATH'S GAY IEND CLAIMS THE EX-MP HID HIS TE SEXUALY HIS ENTIRE LIFE
• WHY I DON’T BELIEVE THAT TED HEATH WAS GAY
• TED HEATH WAS A 'SHY GAY MAN' BUT NOT A PAEDOPHILE, CLAIMS FORMER MADAM
• TED HEATH SNDAL: EX-PRIME MISTER 'WAS A LONELY GAY MAN – BUT NOT A PAEDOPHILE'
• TED HEATH CHILD ABE CLAIMS: FORMER PRIME MISTER WAS 'NOT A PAEDOPHILE... JT AN OLD, SAD, GAY MAN' SAYS BROTHEL OWNER
• CLAIMS THAT PM EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY
• TED HEATH 'PLETELY ASEXUAL': EX-AIAN AI TO FORMER BRISH PRIME MISTER EDWARDS HEATH SAYS HE WAS "PLETELY ASEXUAL", REJECTG CLAIMS HE WAS GAY OR VOLVED CHILD SEX ABE.AN AI TO FORMER BRISH PRIME MISTER EDWARDS HEATH SAYS HE WAS "PLETELY ASEXUAL". (AAP)FORMER BRISH PRIME MISTER EDWARD HEATH WAS "PLETELY ASEXUAL", ONE OF HIS CLOST ADVISERS SAYS.LORD ARMSTRONG OF ILMSTER SAID CHILD SEX ABE ALLEGATNS LEVELLED AT HEATH WERE "TOTALLY UNCHARACTERISTIC AND UNLIKELY".THE LATE POLICIAN IS BEG VTIGATED BY SEVEN POLICE FORC OVER THE CLAIMS AS THE POLICE WATCHDOG PROB WILTSHIRE POLICE OVER WHETHER A REPORT OF ABE, ALLEGEDLY MA THE 1990S, WAS FOLLOWED UP PROPERLY.LORD ARMSTRONG, THE CONSERVATIVE LEAR'S PRCIPAL PRIVATE SECRETARY DURG HIS TIME AS PRIME MISTER OM 1970 TO 1974, TOLD THE BBC HE "NEVER FELT A WHIFF OF SEXUALY ABOUT TED HEATH, WHETHER WAS RELATN TO WOMEN, MEN OR CHILDREN".HE SAID: "I KNEW HIM FOR 35 YEARS, I WORKED VERY CLOSELY WH HIM WHILE HE WAS PRIME MISTER AND WE REMAED IENDS FOR THE RT OF HIS LIFE."YOU UALLY TECT SOME SENSE OF SEXUALY WHEN YOU ARE IENDS OR WORK CLOSELY WH THEM. I THK HE WAS PLETELY ASEXUAL. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE LIKE THAT AND I THK HE WAS ONE OF THEM."THE CLAIMS WERE UNLIKELY BEE HEATH WAS UNR THE GUARD OF STLAND YARD PROTECTN OFFICERS WHEN AT HOME AND DID NOT DRIVE, LORD ARMSTRONG ADD."IT JT SEEMS TO ME HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT HE ULD HAVE PED ALL THAT TO DO THE KD OF THG THAT IS SCRIBED," HE SAID.HIS MENTS E AFTER A FORMER BROTHEL KEEPER CLAIMED SHE HAD ARRANGED MALE RTS FOR THE FORMER PREMIER.MYRA LG-LG FOR, 67, SAID HEATH WAS A "SHY GAY MAN", BUT NOT A PEDOPHILE.LORD ARMSTRONG SCRIBED THE POLICE'S CISN TO SPEAK TO REPORTERS OUTSI HEATH'S HOE AS "DISGRACEFUL" AND SAID THE VTIGATN SHOULD HAVE BEEN RRIED OUT PRIVATE.HEATH DIED AT HOME SALISBURY AT AGE 89 JULY 2005.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 14 AUGT 2015 6:33PMUPDATED 14 AUGT 2015 7:58PMSOURCE: AAPTAGSWORLDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
• BRA HAS HAD “ONE OR TWO” GAY PRIME MISTERS CLAIMS ACTOR

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

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

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?

‘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.

WHY I DON’T BELIEVE THAT TED HEATH WAS GAY

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’.

TED HEATH WAS A 'SHY GAY MAN' BUT NOT A PAEDOPHILE, CLAIMS FORMER MADAM

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.

TED HEATH SNDAL: EX-PRIME MISTER 'WAS A LONELY GAY MAN – BUT NOT A PAEDOPHILE'

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.

TED HEATH CHILD ABE CLAIMS: FORMER PRIME MISTER WAS 'NOT A PAEDOPHILE... JT AN OLD, SAD, GAY MAN' SAYS BROTHEL OWNER

’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. ’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.

CLAIMS THAT PM EDWARD HEATH WAS GAY

’In discsns over home ratn, Heath often exprsed a ‘long-buried gay signer gene’, Jeremy adds.

TED HEATH 'PLETELY ASEXUAL': EX-AIAN AI TO FORMER BRISH PRIME MISTER EDWARDS HEATH SAYS HE WAS "PLETELY ASEXUAL", REJECTG CLAIMS HE WAS GAY OR VOLVED CHILD SEX ABE.AN AI TO FORMER BRISH PRIME MISTER EDWARDS HEATH SAYS HE WAS "PLETELY ASEXUAL". (AAP)FORMER BRISH PRIME MISTER EDWARD HEATH WAS "PLETELY ASEXUAL", ONE OF HIS CLOST ADVISERS SAYS.LORD ARMSTRONG OF ILMSTER SAID CHILD SEX ABE ALLEGATNS LEVELLED AT HEATH WERE "TOTALLY UNCHARACTERISTIC AND UNLIKELY".THE LATE POLICIAN IS BEG VTIGATED BY SEVEN POLICE FORC OVER THE CLAIMS AS THE POLICE WATCHDOG PROB WILTSHIRE POLICE OVER WHETHER A REPORT OF ABE, ALLEGEDLY MA THE 1990S, WAS FOLLOWED UP PROPERLY.LORD ARMSTRONG, THE CONSERVATIVE LEAR'S PRCIPAL PRIVATE SECRETARY DURG HIS TIME AS PRIME MISTER OM 1970 TO 1974, TOLD THE BBC HE "NEVER FELT A WHIFF OF SEXUALY ABOUT TED HEATH, WHETHER WAS RELATN TO WOMEN, MEN OR CHILDREN".HE SAID: "I KNEW HIM FOR 35 YEARS, I WORKED VERY CLOSELY WH HIM WHILE HE WAS PRIME MISTER AND WE REMAED IENDS FOR THE RT OF HIS LIFE."YOU UALLY TECT SOME SENSE OF SEXUALY WHEN YOU ARE IENDS OR WORK CLOSELY WH THEM. I THK HE WAS PLETELY ASEXUAL. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE LIKE THAT AND I THK HE WAS ONE OF THEM."THE CLAIMS WERE UNLIKELY BEE HEATH WAS UNR THE GUARD OF STLAND YARD PROTECTN OFFICERS WHEN AT HOME AND DID NOT DRIVE, LORD ARMSTRONG ADD."IT JT SEEMS TO ME HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT HE ULD HAVE PED ALL THAT TO DO THE KD OF THG THAT IS SCRIBED," HE SAID.HIS MENTS E AFTER A FORMER BROTHEL KEEPER CLAIMED SHE HAD ARRANGED MALE RTS FOR THE FORMER PREMIER.MYRA LG-LG FOR, 67, SAID HEATH WAS A "SHY GAY MAN", BUT NOT A PEDOPHILE.LORD ARMSTRONG SCRIBED THE POLICE'S CISN TO SPEAK TO REPORTERS OUTSI HEATH'S HOE AS "DISGRACEFUL" AND SAID THE VTIGATN SHOULD HAVE BEEN RRIED OUT PRIVATE.HEATH DIED AT HOME SALISBURY AT AGE 89 JULY 2005.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 14 AUGT 2015 6:33PMUPDATED 14 AUGT 2015 7:58PMSOURCE: AAPTAGSWORLDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

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? The moment Edward Heath sat down the first class seat next to me on the flight om Stland to London, shook my hand and said ‘Jonathan, is a pleasure to meet you’ I termed to flirt wh him orr to fd out whether the mours that he was gay were te.

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

He was a bachelor an era when all bachelors were assumed to be gay.

And remember this was a time when to be gay was to be a crimal, equently leadg to jail and even ath. As a teenager I’d been horrified to watch the film Victim starrg the wonrful (gay) actor Dirk Bogar and to realise that gay or bisexual mal, as I was, were dog somethg totally illegal.

Could someone as high and mighty as Prime Mister have actually been homosexual? Everyone said Heath was gay. I knew hundreds of gay men and women, still do.