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
“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.”
“There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.”