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Contents:
- GLAD TO BE GAY: THE STORY OF THE FILMG OF DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
- NO SHA, BUT THERE’S A WRONG WAY TO MAKE A GAY ANTHEM
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- GLAD TO BE GAY: THE STORY OF THE FILMG OF DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
GLAD TO BE GAY: THE STORY OF THE FILMG OF DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
Attemptg to wre a gay anthem 2019 reeks of sweat and substandard self-awarens. Here's why artists like Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and others need some lsons on the right way to wre a song celebratg the LGBTQ muny. * dave is gay song *
"Dave is gay" - lost edy clip ma by DayByDay Productns (2007-2010). The clip I nnot fd anywhere was ma by guys om this vio: In "Dave is gay" the guys meet Dave's apartment and his iend shows him different songs to listen to. The visor tri really hard to prove that Dave is, fact, gay, but Dave ni .
Then a funky song "Dave is gay" n be heard and Dave danc wh his boys. I'm 95% sure the tle of this clip was "Dave is gay", but of I uld be wrong, as the last time I saw was approximately 12 years ago.
NO SHA, BUT THERE’S A WRONG WAY TO MAKE A GAY ANTHEM
* dave is gay song *
Their unn was illegal for a year before the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy 1967.
The bluffly and arrtgly tled David Is Homosexual was ma for the Lewisham branch of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), a social and polil group Ray had persuad Wilf to jo. His activist fire was igned after beg volved the se for the dismissal of John Warburton, the schoolteacher at London’s Holland Park prehensive sacked for beg gay the early 70s. ”John Warburton, like Ray, featur as a meo David Is Homosexual, at the 1976 Gay Pri event Hy Park.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
The Lewisham branch of CHE are seen wh their heads on one another’s laps, drkg beer unr plards, enjoyg what is believed to have been the only rerd footage of Glad To Be Gay sger Tom Robson’s low-key stage appearance that year. ‘Our fai were wonrful’: Ray (left) and Wiled wh Ray’s dad their back garn the 70sDavid Is Homosexual was shot on weekends the blisterg Brish summer of 1976. Funds were tight and film was pricey, but momentum was high among the active gay and lbian brethren of southeast London.
It tells the g-out story of the tular David, a reprsed office worker whose mum and dad scream abe at the telly when gay rights march appear on the go to the office party and ss alone as tipsy straight upl kiss over spilt sweet whe we on the dancefloor.
The sign of the tim fairytale reach s happy a portra of suburban Bra the middle of the 70s and a portal to the gay mdset of the time, is rivetg.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
The motache unt the film, for both gay and straight men, is evably high. David Is Homosexual had an unually long lifpan, tourg the untry until 1979. The film beme a ver story for the magaze Gay director Ron Peck saw and told Wiled how imprsive he found .
GLAD TO BE GAY: THE STORY OF THE FILMG OF DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
Not long after, Peck began work on the bona fi gay classic Night Hawks, a bleak look at same-sex matg ruals om a time when Freddie Mercury and the Village People were assumed to be straight.