All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in
“I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.”
“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.”