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ON THIS GAY DAY: ‘MONTY PYTHON’ ACTOR GRAHAM CHAPMAN WAS BORN
Chapman disclosed his homosexualy on a Brish televisn program 1972 makg him one of the first celebri to e out. He was a huge supporter of the Gay Liberatn Front and the publitn Gay News. Elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors Milk was the first publicly elected official the USA who was open about their homosexualy.
WAS GRAHAM CHAPMAN GAY?
In 1972, he helped start the pneerg newspaper Gay News, and me out publicly (and dnkenly) on televisn. On holiday Ibiza, he met a gay stunt, David Sherlock, who was to be his lifelong partner. He kept his homosexualy secret om most of his iends but, as his TV reer took off wh the pre-Python sketch seri, At Last The 1948 Show, Chapman cid to throw a g-out party.
This was 1967 and the Summer of Love, and the Sexual Offenc Act was about to crimalise gay sex. In a pub Chalk Farm, an salubr part of London, he overheard two Glaswegians talkg about gay men as ‘Jsi’.
’The next night, he returned and announced to the clientele of bsmen and their wiv that the former prime mister Edward Heath was homosexual, and that Chapman had slept wh him. John Tomiczek was a teenage naway om Liverpool, workg as a DJ a gay nightclub Kensgton when he met Chapman 1971.