David Icke: from harmless nutter to dangerous menace

At that time, believe it or not, [David] Icke [writer, politician, sports presenter] and I were colleagues when we were both journalists with the Leicester Mercury. That was long before he went bonkers and starting calling himself the Son of God. In those days he was a perfectly ordinary sports reporter, joining the paper after a promising career as a professional footballer was ended prematurely by arthritis.

He and I had nothing particular in common, though, so we were not friends: the sports guys tended to go their own way. But he would certainly have been aware of me gradually "coming out" in the office as a BL: I plastered my typewriter (no computers in those days!) and other bits of my desk space with photos of young boys. If anyone asked me about this, I’d just say they were kids I thought were attractive and sexy.

My immediate boss, who was gay, seemed entirely relaxed about this. I think he fancied me, actually, and liked me being around: I was in my twenties then and tended to attract quite a lot of interest, male and female. Most of my colleagues, too, were more curious than hostile, and one of them, a nice young girl reporter, was moved to experiment with an unusual attempt at seduction. She was good-looking, but knowing my fixation on boys she sensibly decided she had to "adjust" her feminine appearance somewhat to get my attention. At an office fancy dress party she dressed up as a cub scout and came on to me! A lovely gesture, and one I much appreciated even if the disguise was not quite convincing enough to give me the hots for her. The fact that this happened very publicly, at an office party, will however probably convince you, dear readers, that David Icke was indeed aware of my sexuality. In an office environment of just a few dozen reporters and sub-editors, he could hardly not have been.

source: Article 'David Icke: from harmless nutter to dangerous menace' by Tom O'Carroll; tomocarroll.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/david-icke-from-harmless-nutter-to-dangerous-menace/; Heretic TOC; 4 February 2013