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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
* dave is gay song *
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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.
NO SHA, BUT THERE’S A WRONG WAY TO MAKE A GAY ANTHEM
Two years before an official Gay Pri rally arrived the Uned Kgdom, the Kks released one of pop’s first big hs wh an L.G.B.T. theme. * dave is gay song *
”John Warburton, like Ray, featur as a meo David Is Homosexual, at the 1976 Gay Pri event Hy Park.
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.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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 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 .
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. ” The project was tim: on the set of David Is HomosexualDave, now 71, had popped his head round the door at the Salisbury his time, too. “I didn’t really like the gay scene back then, ” Dave says now.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
I jt wanted to meet someone gay to talk to. ” He would sometim go to the Castle Lewisham: “Down a rridor, past the straight bar the ont and to the gay bar the back.
My mum knew I was gay, but didn’t want to know. ”Like the David David Is Homosexual, Dave found his social world improved on disverg the CHE.
“He said: ‘If you’re gay, you n get touch wh the people. “Every sgle person volved the film, ont of mera and behd the mera was gay, ” says Dave. “The homophobic attackers, David’s mother and father, the blok the pub, the bar staff, all gay.
GLAD TO BE GAY: THE STORY OF THE FILMG OF DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
Two of the gay girls said they’d got an open-back tck that they uld tie me and the tripod to. Wiled sisted that a gay film by necsy ought to have a love scene. ”In 2015, Dave Belton began thkg about David Is Homosexual aga for the first time 35 years.
”If you were volved wh filmg David Is Homosexual, please get touch at n watch the film onle for ee on the BFI’s Player. While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today.