Contents:
- GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
- WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS
- ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?
- GAY
GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
Tom Robson a Brish mician and sger, one of the first, if not the very first pop artist who did not disguise or hi his homosexualy om the general public.
Until then homosexual actors, micians, athlet or anyone the public eye had two choic life: to keep their homosexualy a secret, pecially om the media, or adopt the mannerisms and a of drs which were very mp but at the same time (ironilly) never admtg their sexual preferenc publicly. Tom Robson released a very succsful song entled (Sg if you're) Glad to be Gay, was the mid-70s, and I was still at a Catholic primary school when I remember que distctly hearg gay beg ed for the first time to unteract the BrEng rogatory terms such as: poofter, poof, queer, not normal, fairy and queen that were rife at the time. Glad to be Gay.
WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS
The song was origally wrten by Tom Robson for a London gay pri. An out gay sger, he subsequently formed the.
ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?
"Glad to Be Gay" is built around four vers cricizg Brish society's attus towards gay people.
GAY
In the first verse, criciz the Brish police for raidg gay pubs for no reason at all, once homosexualy had been crimalized sce the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act.