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- THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
- THE VELVET RAGE: OVERG THE PA OF GROWG UP GAY A STRAIGHT MAN'S WORLD
- PRI AND PREJUDICE FOR GAY MEN
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THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
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THE VELVET RAGE: OVERG THE PA OF GROWG UP GAY A STRAIGHT MAN'S WORLD
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In fact, was a gay man, Larry Parn, who svengali-d Bra’s very first rockers, om Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wil. A new book tled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swgg Sixti aims to tell the Brish si of this story by focg on several key players the scene, cludg a few of the aforementned nam along wh the novative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood.
”At the same time, the rich, powerful and fluential men faced the nsirable nsequenc of beg gay at a time when homosexual acts were still outlawed the UK.
PRI AND PREJUDICE FOR GAY MEN
”There were, fact, a few powerful gay women the Brish rock scene at the time as well, cludg Vicki Wickham, who booked the acts on the semal TV show Ready Steady Go and who later managed Dty Sprgfield and LaBelle.
”Bullock’s book don’t lve to the eper cultural and psychologil issu volved the relatnships between the gay and straight men.
Still, ’s clear to any stunt of the era that the edgy liv of gay men at the time fascated the straight artists they worked wh.
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