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REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY

Anonymo whistleblower, who prevly ttified before the Hoe Ways & Means Commtee last month, is expected to reveal his inty as a 13 year-special agent wh the IRS’ Crimal Invtigatn Divisn and as a "gay Democrat married to a man, " acrdg to his prepared ttimony obtaed by Fox News whistleblowers have alleged officials at the Jtice Department, FBI and IRS terfered the vtigatn to Hunter Bin and said cisns the se seemed to be "fluenced by polics. 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. Funds were tight and film was pricey, but momentum was high among the active gay and lbian brethren of southeast London.

GLAD TO BE GAY: THE STORY OF THE FILMG OF DAVID IS HOMOSEXUAL

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 .

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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. 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.

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”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.

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.

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