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Contents:
- THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED
- THE GAY LIV OF THE CAMBRIDGE 5
- GAY CAMBRIDGE, UNED KGDOM | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
- 5 - NORMALY AND QUEERNS GAY FICTN
THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED
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Image source, Getty ImagMI5 has been named the UK's most gay-iendly employer - but isn't long sce same-sex relatnships were nsired a threat to natnal secury.
"How to spot a possible homo, " ran a headle the paper. Below this, for MI5's benef, was a list of supposed signifiers of male homosexualy ("a gay ltle wiggle", "his tie has the latt knot", "an unnaturally strong affectn for his mother") pretext for this unsoliced advice - which now seems clearly offensive - was the se of John Vassall, a gay civil servant who spied for the Soviets unr threat of blackmail.
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A gay man, the paper's reporter said, was a facto secury risk: "I wouldn't tst him wh my secrets.
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"Fast forward 53 years and the service tops Stonewall's 2016 list of the 400 bt plac to work for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people.
5 - NORMALY AND QUEERNS GAY FICTN
Acrdg to the Tim, more than 80 of s employe belong to an LGBT staff source, Eveng StandardImage ptn, Brish civil servant and Soviet spy John Vassall shortly after his release om prison 1972And yet a ban on gay men and women servg MI5, MI6 or GCHQ was force as recently as 1991. A seri of Cold War sndals featurg gay men meant homosexualy was lked many people's mds wh pnage and betrayal.