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( Me at my place)
I am coming out loud and proud and declaring 
the following:
1. I am an Aussie white bloke of European 
descent!
2. I am heterosexual!
3. Although non religious I tend to believe in 
so-called Christian values/beliefs!
Mike's Comments - 
25/6/2014.
Also on my blog: www.beautkoot.blogspot.com.au
Subject: " Yet another Ex Celebrity is claiming 
to be " Not Straight - Gay "
People over my 74 years I have seen/experienced 
some many World Famous high flying celebrities across 
the human spectrum - athletics, various sports 
- boxing, cricket, football etc; 
entertainment - movie stars, singers, and especially politicians that find it 
very difficult to accept that they 
have had their time/day in 
the sun and now ? and have gone from being 
a household name constantly in the 
media with paparazzi hanging around like a bad smell 
photographing their every move - 
attracting an audience wanting to touch them and get 
autographs and ofcourse like 
everything else that all diminishes with time and they are consigned to the 
history books.
However some celebrities cannot handle that 
rejection and go to great lengths even to commit suicide to 
try and maintain that popular adoration ? or if 
your a pollie the influence ? power 
they once had ?
Frank 
Sinatra.
Take Frank Sinatra for instance who I was a great fan 
of but I believed it was a great 
shame
when he insisted on singing into his 70's where to me 
his voice was becoming what you 
would expect a once great singers voice to 
become-pretty pathetic- and it was not 
because
he needed the money ! he died leaving an estate of 3 - 
400 million 
dollars!
It was because he wanted to hear the applause and the 
adoration and yes he brought in 
the crowds in Las Vegas but from what I read the 
crowds were turning up to see a curiosity 
not 
a great singer and 
entertainer.
       Ex Aussie 
PM.
Gough 
Whitlam
     Ex Aussie 
PM
   Bob 
Hawke 
 Ex Aussie 
PM
Malcolm Fraser who is famous for deposing Gough Whitlam 
the then Labor PM and who lost 
his trousers in New York? was never very popular with 
the electorate because he talked like 
he had a plum in his mouth like some English nobility 
and treated various people he thought 
were just plebbs with some disdain and who tiered up to 
the point of nearly crying seated 
before the cameras after he lost his last election in 
1983 to the popular Bob Hawke.
However Malcolm Fraser is another one that can't leave 
things alone because he is constantly 
appearing on the ABC Radio -? where else 
?- criticising the Aussie population for the way we 
treat the so-called asylum seekers and telling our 
current and the previous Labor one how we 
should - or not - deal with the likes 
of China, Japan and the USA?
I believe he should just shut up and enjoy his enormous 
Tax Payer funded retirement and 
remember he is yesterdays man and even then he 
did not do a great job of PM as history 
shows that's why he got booted out by the 
voters!
Ian Thorpe
I believe this is what has happened to Ian Thorpe but 
to a far greater extent because he
was much loved, admired and respected as a person and a 
great athlete and was mobbed
by fans- especially the females- wherever he went in 
Aussie and around the World!
I wont go into all his massive achievements from the 
age of (14) where he became the 
youngest individual World Champion ever through to the 
Olympics, Summer Olympics, 
World 
Championships, World Aquatic Championships, Aussie 
Swimmer of the year from 
1999 to 2003, Young Aussie of the Year in 2000 to when 
he retired due to illness & injury in 
2006 
only to try for a come back in 2011 but failed the 2012 
Aussie Olympic trails and to me 
it was like watching/listening to a younger version of 
an elderly Frank Sinatra viewing Ian 
Thorpe being interviewed at pool side after his poor 
result at the 2012 Olympic trails. 
Sir Michael 
Parkinson.
Now watching Ian Thorpe on Channel (10) being 
interviewed by Sir Michael Parkinson
yesterday the 13/7/2014 where at the great old age of 
(32) he looked and sounded like
he has hit rock bottom and it was a great shame to see 
such a good bloke and a fine
athletic champion go so far down human 
chain?
However I believe that Ian Thorpe has achieved the come 
back he was looking for at the
2012 Olympic trails where he failed to qualify because 
by appearing as a well loved and 
renown widely acclaimed and highly honoured World Class 
Athlete on a World Class and
renown show hosted by an also well loved, widely 
acclaimed and highly honoured Sir
Michael Parkinson Ian Thorpe is back on the podium 
being the centre of attention and
the accolades, recognition he has missed since retiring 
from international swimming
back in 2006- and who could blame him after having a 
fantastic career cut short due to 
illness & injury when he was in the prime of his 
life-however I believe for all the 
wrong
reasons?
After all ( IS ?? ) he being congratulated and praised 
for the following:
1.The way he has handled the pressure and achieved so 
much in his short life and still 
remain a good, God fearing part of a close family sort 
of bloke? NO!
2.The way he has reportedly handled his drug problem? 
NO!
3.The way he is coping with his reportedly depression? 
NO!
4.The way he is coping with his reportedly alcohol 
problem? NO!
5.The way he has handled his reportedly thoughts of 
suicide? NO!
6.The gentlemanly and fair way he has handled the 
romantic break ups with his many and 
various female friends avoiding the media scandal that 
often happens when celebrities do
these sort of things - the media enjoy if not thrive on 
the juicy bits!! ? NO!
However I feel some sympathy for the females Ian Thorpe 
had sex with because now they
wont know if while he was having sex with them he was 
actually fantasising and wishing
they were 
blokes??
No! none of the above even though items 2 - 5 are 
killing Aussies virtually every day!!
No people all this latest media - main and social - 
frenzy - especially amongst the gay
lesbian lobby who must be wetting their collective 
knickers with excitement the poor 
darlings - is that Ian Thorpe has declared what most of 
the worlds population that has
followed his career has thought may have been the case 
and that he is not " Straight "
his words not mine and I noticed it was well into the 
interview before he referred to 
himself as a " Gay man " and I my view he seemed to 
avoid the word " Gay " like he was
not comfortable with using 
it??
This ofcourse is even though he has vehemently denied 
it over the years and even stated 
so in his latest autobiography written some (2) years 
ago I gather headed " This is me in 
2012 
Ian Thorpe Own Autobiography " is there any wonder he 
delayed announcing his 
coming out?? stating one untruth so close to the book 
launch could have cast some doubt 
on any other statements Ian Thorpe made in the book and 
therefore effected the book 
sales???
Anyway " Who Bloody Cares - other than other gay 
blokes?? What his sexual preferences
are?? what is so special about being gay when compared 
to any other sexual preference?
Just go on the porn sites there are a multitude of 
them!!
Maybe someone - based on now Ian Thorpe's notoriety? - 
can let him host a " Question & 
Answer Show " like the International Gay Guru and 
Promoter of homosexual life Stephen
Fry who has QI which is run at least once every weekday 
night ? sometimes (2) on Prime
Time TV on where else? the gay/lesbian promotional arm 
- The ABC - that is when they are 
not reporting/commentating ad nauseam on how badly we 
Aussies are treating the so-called
asylum seekers?? where Ian Thorpe can invite - as 
Stephen Fry does - his fellow 
gay/lesbian
mates to participate and they can all have a lovely jolly 
time??
Mark Scott AO - ABC's 
MD.
   Anyone can declare themselves gay and/or lesbian 
because you don't need any 
qualifications,
certificates, body shape! size! or weight! you don't 
have to have a limp wrist 
hand shake, 
a funny walk, be foppish and have an effeminate voice 
if your a bloke or 
masculine traits if your 
a female.
Just declare yourself either gay or lesbian - or even 
bi-sexual for the matter - go to a gay/
lesbian bar/ club/ hang out and announce to all and 
sundry that you wish to be either gay 
or lesbian and I am sure you will be fighting the 
people gathered there off with a stick 
wanting 
you to be their virgin gay or 
lesbian. 
  Anyway you would only have to contact Andrew Barr the 
Deputy Chief Minister and 
Treasurer 
of the ACT Legislative Council who is a well known 
practicing homosexual and 
a member of 
" Rainbow Labor " that has put the following advert - 
scroll down to the 
bottom - in the media 
and on face book - I might add reading the readers 
comments in the 
ACT local media it is causing a lot of controversial debate - in fact it is 
getting hammered - 
in regard to heterosexuals not being invited?? plus who 
is paying for not only the advert 
but the whole episode/love in?? hopefully not the ACT 
Rate/Tax Payers with the massive 
deficits of millions 
of dollars the ACT Legislative Council is 
running?
Andrew Barr.
The ACT Deputy Chief 
Minister.
Something I thought was very disrespectful 
towards us red blooded hetro males was where a boof 
head Channel (7) AFL commentator by the name of 
Brian Taylor called/labeled on air a Geelong 
player by the name of Harry Taylor - not a gay I gather - quote " A big Poofter 
" unquote and the 
Channel (7) plus the 
AFL want this commentator Brain 
Taylor to attend counseling and 
education 
classes for his anti-homophobic?
Well people as far as I am concerned bugger - 
metaphorically speaking ofcourse – the homosexuals
/gays because to call a red blooded hetro bloke 
a quote " A Big Poofter "unquote - 
other than calling 
him a Mother Fucker? or his Mum is a whore - is one of - if not the 
biggest insults you can call a red 
blooded hetro male suggesting that he kisses and has sex with blokes which 
to the average hetro 
bloke is not only abhorrent! distasteful! and repulsive but is definitely fighting talk and if there was 
ever a saying that will get you a punch in the mouth and possibly hospitalised 
that's it!!!!
Don't believe me then try it? but I hope you 
can fight and have your health insurance fully paid up? 
because the chances are win or lose your going 
to need it??
I don't feel sorry in anyway for Ian Thorpe 
good luck to him!! he is big enough, intelligent, educated 
and good looking enough and possibly loaded 
with cash/funds to look after himself without my 
advice.
However I believe people will 
unfortunately remember Ian Thorpe " As that famous gay 
swimmer " 
and not for his swimming/ athletical achievements which in my view 
will be a great shame.
Ok people speak up and don't let this noisy in 
your face well organised minority gay/lesbian group 
make life so difficult for us the majority Aussie hetro's with this 
political correctness being so much 
in their favour that it chokes our long held freedom of 
speech?
However if your happy with that then cop it 
sweet and don't whinge when you find yourself in a law 
court being accused of upsetting the 
sensibilities of this minority group for what we would consider 
very minor at present??
Mike Howe.
The ACT Advert 
below.







