What a gay day! Hey listen, now that that guy down the street don’t have to bake your ke, you n always pop one of Network DVD’s discs om the Regn 2 llectn, Shut That Door! Larry Grayson at ITV, an exhstive 3-disc look at the beloved 1970s mp TV ic's work for England’s…
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- WHAT A GAY DAYLARRY GRAYSON LYRICS
- SHUT THAT DOOR - OH WHAT A GAY DAY
- OH WHAT A GAY DAYLARRY GRAYSON LYRICS
WHAT A GAY DAYLARRY GRAYSON LYRICS
Lyrics, Meang & Vios: What A Gay Day, My Friend Everard, Only A Glass Of Champagne, Send Hand Rose, Thgs I've Lost, Shut That Door, Aprit Lil, I've Got It Here, Everard's Birthday Party, jt a gigolo, Slack Alice, The Marrow * what a gay day shut that door *
This was a gay tchphrase. The law on homosexualy the 1970s only allowed acts a private place, and a room a hoe was not private if the door was open. Therefore, any gay uple need to shut that door before they began.
What A Gay Day. The newly-disvered memoirs reveal much about his one lost love – Tom Proctor, who was killed the Send World War – his later clash wh gay activists at the height of his reer and his plited upbrgg.
Grayson was famo for his tch phras that clud ‘what a gay day! Dpe beg very private about his sexualy, he was one of the first televisn edians to suggt an openly gay persona. “His risqué humour and tchphras remd of a post-gay liberatn moment popular culture durg the 1970s and 1980s where gay humour uld have mastream appeal and a visibly gay man uld succeed at the hight level the world of light entertament, as long as he was prepared to perform his sexual inty ‘for lghs’.
SHUT THAT DOOR - OH WHAT A GAY DAY
Read about Shut That Door - Oh What a Gay Day by Larry Grayson and see the artwork, lyrics and siar artists. * what a gay day shut that door *
“Much loved by the general public, Grayson alongsi ntemporary ‘gay edians’ –though they were never explicly scribed as such – like Frankie Howard or John Inman, were not always held high regard by the gay liberatn movement. ’ and Peter Tatchell observed 2016 that durg the 1970s and 1980s he spised the stereotypil, and therefore negative, image of homosexualy that figur like Grayson offered.
LARRY GRAYSON - WHAT A GAY DAYA VERY RARE LP RELEASED IN 1972 ON YORK LABELTHE REAR OF THE SLEEVE HAS LARRY GRAYSON'S AUTOGRAPH - SEE PHOTOCAT.
What a gay day! Better-known (here the Stat) ntemporari of his Brish gay mp humor, Kenh Williams and Frankie Howerd, were certaly faiar nam to me, though (Williams’s snooty, superr queen was my favore character om the Carry On gang). Not really outrageo mp—no drag, no feather boas, no makp or wigs, as he had done before on the stage—but is the kd of “fx-stealth” 70s gay TV humor that today would enrage humorls gay/P.
OH WHAT A GAY DAYLARRY GRAYSON LYRICS
* what a gay day shut that door *
Tryg to fd a ntemporary edian here the Stat, to give you an ia of how Grayson operated, the obv choic would be Pl Lyn and Charl Nelson Reilly, the two most proment gay edians of 1970s Amerin televisn. Signifintly, like Lyn and Reilly, Grayson never off as “weak” his obv-yet-unstated gay orientatn (a goofy, totally off-the-mark charge gay activists make all the time).
Intertgly, Grayson gets away wh them (and ed, gets the dience on his si), by projectg, at the same time that he’s suggtg randy wish for gay sex, a disda for the actual physil act self (acrdg to some on the docs, Grayson was celibate real life). Grayson therefore had his ke and ate , too: his double entendr ma a name for him, safely gettg across his sexual preference while dly shockg the lighted dience, but at the same time he uld project a mock horror at the actual gay sex act, which let him off the hook, so to speak, wh mastream Brish TV dienc who the 1970s weren’t ready for an aggrsively “out” edian. ”), psg for dazzlg effect after each and every double entendre, givg the dience time to tch up wh his nstant asis that p the joke squarely wh a gay ntext.