http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/poli...kgaynews.org.uk

The intelligence service MI5 has teamed up with Britain’s leading gay lobby group to recruit more homosexuals and to encourage spies to be open about their sexuality.

MI5, which targets home-grown terrorists and foreign spies, has hired Stonewall to advise on how it can attract a broader range of applicants.

Until the early 1990s gays were barred from sensitive government jobs because of fears that they would be vulnerable to blackmail. The ban followed revelations about the notorious Cambridge spy ring, the 1950s group of Cambridge graduates who worked in the intelligence service. Two of the ringleaders, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, were both gay.

This year MI5 will appear in Stonewall’s graduate recruitment guide, which lists gay-friendly employers.

There was a British series called State Within, the gay Mi6 station chief was kinda annoying. The series was interesting in that it was set in the US embassy, and said some things politically that two years later are pretty clearly true.

The view of America from that perspective was interesting. I wouldn't say the show was great, but useful for the contrast with thoughtless shit like 24. And Jason Isaacs stars.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770652/

There was a British series called State Within, the gay Mi6 station chief was kinda annoying. The series was interesting in that it was set in the US embassy, and said some things politically that two years later are pretty clearly true.

The view of America from that perspective was interesting. I wouldn't say the show was great, but useful for the contrast with thoughtless shit like 24. And Jason Isaacs stars.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770652/

The gay character on 24 sucked as well.