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Contents:
- HOW WE MA: TOM ROBSON AND NICK MOBBS ON GLAD TO BE GAY
- GLAD TO BE GAY
- GLAD TO BE GAY
- GLAD TO BE GAY CHORDS
HOW WE MA: TOM ROBSON AND NICK MOBBS ON GLAD TO BE GAY
<p>The sger-songwrer and A&R man behd the 1978 song remember how punk energy fired up a gay-rights anthem</p> * tom robinson glad to be gay youtube *
They filmed TRB dog this magnificently tic Glad To Be Gay live Manchter, and broadst on 6 November 1977. Performg the song, preced by the ‘outed by the tabloids’ anecdote, at legendary 90s gay die and queerre night Club V, London, 11th July 1998. Her long rerd of homophobia was a ser ncern and so a few days later, on the 40th anniversary of the first ever performance of the song, Robson went to Downg Street and sang Glad to Be Gay.
GLAD TO BE GAY
(Sg If You're) Glad To Be Gay by Tom Robson Band song meang, lyric terpretatn, vio and chart posn * tom robinson glad to be gay youtube *
A fictnalised versn of Tom Robson featur the 1981 Gay Pri scene of BBC time-travel p show Ash To Ash, 2008.
After participatg the march TRB T-shirt, he leads arrte sgg Glad To Be Gay the cells. Glad Not To Be Gay.
GLAD TO BE GAY
1975 precursor sgle 'Good To Be Gay', the arth of queer pop mic before Glad To Be Gay, the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly and the Gay Liberatn Front * tom robinson glad to be gay youtube *
Tom Robson, sger, songwrerI had a nervo breakdown when I was 16, largely due to the strs of growg up gay, which was illegal back then.
It also exposed me to all sorts of the 60s, there wasn't a sgle public figure who was openly gay, so we had no role mols, no mentns of homosexualy. "I wrote a song lled Good to Be Gay for the Campaign For Homosexual Equaly 1975. They exposed me to the notn of beg proud of beg gay.
GLAD TO BE GAY CHORDS
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At the time, the police were regularly targetg London's olst gay pub, the Coleherne Earls Court, on a regular basis. When the edor of Gay News famoly tried to take a photograph of one raid, he was charged and fed for the fluenc me together the long, hot summer of 1976. I wrote Glad to Be Gay on an atic guar my flat, tendg as a one-off for a Gay Pri march.
People would jo wh what begs as an anti-police number and, by the time they're at the chos, they're all ught up , beltg out: "Sg if you're glad to be gay.
"I'm now married wh kids, but Glad to Be Gay was about anyone who didn't nform, om lbians to transgenrs, a way of regnisg that most of have plex sexuali.