The days, Sweet are the punchle to an ad for an surance pany. But, as <strong>David Cavanagh</strong> reports, the joke masks a tale of vlence, illns and fds – not to mentn a "gay Hler" on Top of the Pops
Contents:
- BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
- ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ARTISTS
BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
None of the band was gay, fact, and Prit was actually a quiet man who disliked the limelight.
ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ARTISTS
I mean, a gay Hler.
The effect wasn’t androgyno so much as eply disncertg: Prit was, wrer Julie Burchill’s memorable asssment, “built like a hod-rrier” and looked “like a navvy who’d stolen all your makp” stum, meanwhile, seemed to go beyond entertament to a very proto-punk sire to shock: on the 1973 TOTP Christmas special, he mimed Block Bter drsed as, his words, “a gay Nazi”, plete wh swastika armband, uniform and full makp: on another ocsn, he took to the stage wearg a sequned jumpsu wh the words “FUCK YOU” wrten on the back.