Trainspotting Author's Gay Club Secret

Notoriously hedonistic author Irvine Welsh admitted this week that he spent part of his youth mincing around a gay club with a male friend 'acting camp'.

"I started going to a gay club because we quickly worked out the best looking girls went there, to escape the unwelcome attention of the beer monsters who frequented the straight clubs," the canny Scotsman admitted in his weekly Telegraph column.

"It was prudent to act a little camp, as the straight, good-looking girls had no shortage of vanity, and would try to get you over to the other side."

The Trainspotting author's confession came weeks after the Sunday Times style guide suggested the practise of heterosexual men masquerading as gay is becoming increasingly fashionable in England.

"Pretending to be gay, or at least cultivating a certain ambiguity about your sexuality, gets you much closer to where you want to be, much faster," The Times advised.

"It's about a subtle blurring of the boundaries of sexual orientation with the sole purpose of scoring."
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