Secretive Maybe-Gay Dead British Spy Still Maybe-Gay
When last we checked in on the dead maybe-murdered maybe-gay Gareth Williams MI6 spy story—back in September!—we were learning about how he may have locked himself allegedly into his own sports bag? Now, at Christmas-time, no less, we are learning a few things! For one, an investigator believes "that someone else had been involved in putting Williams into the bag." Well good, the laws of physics remain unchallenged! A few other things? Bondage website browser history, for one. "Detectives also found a £15,000 collection of unworn women's designer clothing, including tops, dresses and shoes, in his wardrobe." (Collection includes Louboutin! Also, he was (secretly) a fashion design student at a local school!) And then something something gay bars, drag shows, and a visit to the apartment by a "casually dressed Mediterranean couple." (Uh oh. That sounds like something from a Haneke movie?) And here's your police statement of the day: "despite the women's clothing, possible visit to the gay bar and drag act tickets, police did not know for certain that Williams was gay."
The mind reels at how "The Awl is Still Seeking a Managing Editor" is possibly related to this post.
Well, someone has to zip Choire & Balk into their gym bags and Cho sure as hell isn't going to do it.
Cat?
I guess UK policy on this matter is "pics or it didn't happen."
"casually dressed Mediterranean couple" – casual by British standards, or by Mediterranean Bondage Fetish standards?
Not gay; spy-curious.
He is dead. This we know.
Not like the zitheads who think they own a website on the Internet have figured out how to let people create multi-media responses (allah forbid they stop talking to people off camera in order to figure it out)…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjDMmjgKec
Shiva be praised there's at least one person who won't catch the obvious "La Croix Sweety" reference.
What is the Jeff Barea phenomenon?
Damned if I know. I'm just going with it. Pretty much winging it until I die at this point.
Wouldn't the womens clothing have to be worn for it to be incriminating?
That would just confirm that he was a cross-dressing label whore. Or they could be presents from his girlfriend's wish list and he just wanted to see how they might look on her.
The percentage of spooks who are gay has always been very high.
Sometimes I get the feeling it's high among male foreign correspondent journalists too.
The art of hiding in plain sight is one of the many awesome qualities of us gays. Foreign correspondents? That's the out-of-town rule, which apparently those pressers stole from us gays.