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- MR HUMPHRI, A GAY IN WHO WAS HATED BY GAY LIBERATN
- MOVE OVER, MR HUMPHRI: THE CHANGG FACE OF GAY CULTURE
MR HUMPHRI, A GAY IN WHO WAS HATED BY GAY LIBERATN
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Vio: John Inman, who died yterday a London hospal at the age of 71 after a long battle agast liver disease, was probably rponsible for raisg the profile of the homosexual male to s hight level sce the heyday of Osr, ironilly, theTV role for which he will always be remembered furiated the activists of Gay Liberatn. ' - as the sort of meang sexual stereotype they were fightg to years after the seri end, members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly monstrated outsi theatr where Inman happened to be the star of Are You Beg Served? ' - as the sort of meang sexual stereotype they were fightg to years after the seri end, members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly monstrated outsi theatr where Inman happened to be appearg.
MOVE OVER, MR HUMPHRI: THE CHANGG FACE OF GAY CULTURE
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