The unchallenged homophobia in these articles distracts from the real justification to eliminate invasive search policies, whether in the UK or elsewhere.

Bar Rafaeli's discomfort with a needless, over-intimate search is warranted, but extremely unlikely to have anything to do with the screener's actual sexual preferences. Her tweet merely makes her appear vain and stupid, despite the offensiveness of what she was actually forced to put up with. Would she have found this intimate contact acceptable/excusable if performed by some random heterosexual male?