Hm, I think it's opposite. I mean, maybe someone is writing Clegg/Cameron slash in a way that's supposed to be genuinely sexy and play on the gilded-public-schoolboy gloss (eeuerch!), but I think it's much more mocking than that, and that's why the hard-working, less-"glamorous" MPs don't get it.

(Quotation marks because I have an impossibly hard time imagine either Clegg or Cameron as glamorous.)

What bugs me about the media nudging and giggling about "teeheehee, it's like they're a gay couple" is that it's exactly the same as "Clegg's a harlot, who's he going to get into bed with?" - it pretty much depends on there being no actual women or gay men around to mess up the metaphor.