PRIDE MONTH Gay History – June 5: Torch Song Trilogy, Feri Garcia Lor, The Commtee for Homosexual Freedom, and MORE.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

* gay torch songs *

The llectn of three short plays, which are performed succsn, ns for over four hours and tells the story of Arnold Beckoff, a gay Jewish drag queen and torch song sger. The play is regnised for s pictn of an effemate gay man who longs for a fay. The work discs issu like gay marriage and adoptn and has been regnised as a precursor to popular TV shows like Will & Grace, Morn Fay and Queer as Folk.

Bce Wayne Campbell found fame as 70s rock performer Jobrah, he’s been scribed as the first openly gay rock mician. He played the character of Woof, who is implied to be gay.

ON THIS GAY DAY: ‘TORCH SONG TRILOGY’ HAD S PREMIERE

He had a very tragic life, he was gay, Jewish and que ugly - was not easy for him! It's very gay but also very rpectable and tasteful.

Attus the Bloomsbury Group, which Keyn was avidly volved, were relaxed about homosexualy. Keyn, together wh wrer Lytton Strachey, had rhaped the Victorian attus of the Cambridge Apostl: “Sce [their] time, homosexual relatns among the members were for a time mon”, wrote Bertrand Rsell. 1898 – Birth date of gay Spanish poet Feri Garcia Lor.