This is an important redisvery Bra's LGBT history, ma on a shotrg on Super8 over the hot summer of 1976 by members of the Lewisham branch of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE). The film follows lonely, isolated office clerk David as he disvers CHE, mak new iends and blossoms to a happy, out gay man. Intend as an tnal tool, the film was shown around the untry to straight and gay dienc. It featur rare footage of the 1976 Gay Pri rally Hy Park, where Tom Robson buted his h anthem 'Glad to be Gay'.
Contents:
- GLAD TO BE GAY: THE STORY OF THE FILMG OF DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
- DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
- IS DAVID DAWSON GAY? THE 'MY POLICEMAN' STAR IS GETTG MARRRIED SOON
GLAD TO BE GAY: THE STORY OF THE FILMG OF DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
* david is homosexual film *
This is an important redisvery Bra's LGBT history, ma on a shotrg on Super8 over the hot summer of 1976 by members of the Lewisham branch of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE). The film follows lonely, isolated office clerk David as he disvers CHE, mak new iends and blossoms to a happy, out gay man. Intend as an tnal tool, the film was shown around the untry to straight and gay dienc.
DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL
It featur rare footage of the 1976 Gay Pri rally Hy Park, where Tom Robson buted his h anthem 'Glad to be Gay'. David is Homosexual was wrten and directed by the late Wiled Avery and filmed by David Belton; the pair were supported by many gay men and lbians om CHE and the wir muny. Gay Black Group.
The Gay Black Group - reassertg culture and inty on two levels.
Stgglg wh the prsur of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman stggl to pe wh the trmas and anxieti of her life. Homosexual Equaly. The Campaign for Homosexual Equaly is given airtime the first ever muny accs seri on Brish TV.
IS DAVID DAWSON GAY? THE 'MY POLICEMAN' STAR IS GETTG MARRRIED SOON
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 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.