Gay men spying
'Gay man who identifies as a woman' claimed he mind LGBTQ people can use all toilets in Britain when found spying on lady in female loo
A voyeur claimed he thought Britain allowed the LGBTQ community to utilize all toilets after he was arrested for spying on a woman in a ladies lavatory.
Plumber Ivan Blidar, 37, was detained for voyeurism offences after he was caught peeking at the victim over the cubicle wall at a McDonald's restaurant in Liverpool metropolis centre.
When quizzed by police over his actions, bearded Bildar said he identified as a gal, was homosexual and insisted people of 'non-traditional sexual orientation' in the UK had a 'choice' of toilets to use.
He claimed he had previously used both the ladies and the gents without issue and added that it was 'usual' for men to leave into women's toilets in London where he has lived for six years.
But a district assess at Sefton Magistrates Court rejected Blidar's account as 'not credible' and convicted him of monitoring a person doing a private act.
Blidar, from Chingford in North London, was visiting Liverpool ahead of catchi
The challenge of being male lover and an MI6 spy
Security correspondent
Earlier this month the chief of MI6 issued a general apology for the historic treatment of LGBT employees. Until , there was a ban on openly gay staff serving inside the intelligence agencies, which Richard Moore called "wrong, unjust and discriminatory". One former member of MI6, who is gay and served before the forbid was lifted, tells the BBC that the apology was welcome but overdue.
Being a spy can mean leading a double life - maintaining your cover by telling friends you work at the Foreign Office when in fact you head to MI6 in the morning. Or when you are abroad perhaps taking on an entirely new individuality to meet an forwarder.
But being a queer spy in the Freezing War meant leading a triple life. There was an additional layer of secrets, a clandestine being hidden even from your colleagues in the society of espionage.
That was because even though homosexuality had been legalised in Britain in the s, it was still banned within the secret service because of a presumpti
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Dharun Ravi, who had been criticized by a assess for not showing remorse and for refusing to say he was sorry, also said he will begin serving a time jail term on Thursday even though he doesn&#;t have to.
Through a lawyer, Ravi issued his most contrite public statement yet in a case that made him a symbol of what his family called an overzealous prosecution and that made his roommate, Tyler Clementi, a prime example of what gay rights advocates said were the consequences of bullying.
&#;I accept responsibility for and regret my unthinking, insensitive, immature, stupid and childish choices that I made on Sept. 19, , and Sept. 21, ,&#; Ravi said in his statement. &#;My action and actions, which at no time were motivated by hate, bigotry, prejudice or desire to wound, humiliate
Secret Signals: How Some Men Cruise for Sex
Aug. 28, &#; -- While many Americans may only be vaguely familiar with the idea of "cruising," there is a secret world of sex between men that exists in public places across the country.
The police officer who arrested Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis airport for allegedly looking to engage in gay sex wrote in his June report that he "recognized a signal used by persons wishing to involve in lewd conduct."
Craig tapped his foot up and down and swiped his hand underneath the bathroom stall in which the undercover cop was sitting, according to the police report.
Those behavior led to Craig's arrest by Detective Dave Karsnia and the senator's guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge. Craig told reporters today that he did nothing inappropriate and said his guilty plea was a mistake.
Public places like men's restrooms, in airports and train stations, truck stops, university libraries and parks, have long been places where gay and bisexual men, particularly th