The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni.
Contents:
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- A GAY COUPLE'S FIGHT FOR THEIR TW SON'S CIZENSHIP INSPIR
- THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
- HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY TEENAGER AND HIS TWO TRAGIC ENDGS
- THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
- 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
- AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
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Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N. Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni.
Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.
Harry Daley, a self-ted gay man, meets the BBC producer JR Ackerley while walkg his Hammersmh beat. Ackerley, also gay, puts Daley on the rad and troduc him to his lerary iends cludg Room Wh A View thor EM Forster. The most celebrated gay man livg memory.
A GAY COUPLE'S FIGHT FOR THEIR TW SON'S CIZENSHIP INSPIR
Archaelogists have unvered what they believe to be the remas of the first-known gay, or transgenr, prehistoric man. * who was the first gay couple *
Wh his own theatril world, Byng is openly gay but very discreet outsi . ‘Shuff’ be a regular venu around the gay scene wh an nuendo-filled act. In 1953 he reports a theft to police, but when officers realise he is gay, they arrt him stead.
Turg’s life as a gay man is reported utly by the BBC.
The Wolfenn Commtee publish s Report to the laws on homosexualy and prostutn. The BBC ually asks psychiatrists, lawyers and clergymen to discs the ‘problem of homosexualy’. In the aftermath of the Wolfenn Report, BBC Rad broadsts ‘The Homosexual Condn’.
THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
Wolfenn (whose son is gay), and EM Forster meet on a BBC rad programme.
HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY TEENAGER AND HIS TWO TRAGIC ENDGS
Forster is the thor of Passage to India, Room Wh a View, and the ‘gay Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, Mrice. Wrers Marty Feldman and Barry Took e gay slang Polari the nuendo-laced Julian and Sandy sketch Round the Horne, wh leral straight-man Kenh Horne. Millns listen at Sunday lunchtim to the highly gay stereotyped characters played by Hugh Paddick and Kenh Williams.
Bona = good, dolly = pretty, eke (ef) = face, lalli = legs, naff = bbish/poor, nanty = no/nothg, ogle = look/eye, omi = man, omipalone = gay man, palone = woman, riah = hair, varda = seeRound the Horne, Sunday 7 March 1965, 14. In the Sprg of 1965, a psychologil TV drama featur a love triangle wh a gay aspect.
THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
The stud-based play is billed as ‘a smopolan London uple (Glenda Jackson and Aled Lynch) fd their outwardly charmed liv upend by a troubled homosexual iend (Nil Williamson)’. However, after 10 long years of mpaigng to implement the Wolfenn Report, the new act is barely a victory for gay rights. It only crimalis gay sex private between men.
It do not ver the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forc, do not extend to Stland or Northern Ireland, and do not equalise the discrimatory age of nsent for gay men.
10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
Man Alive broadsts two edns weeks ahead of the Act lookg at the liv of gay men and lbians Alive: Consentg Adults: 2: The Women, BBC Two, Wednday 14 June 1967, 1970s: Breakthrough.
Humphri (John Inman), Bombardier ‘Gloria’ Bemont (Melvyn Hay) and edian-host Larry Grayson reprent only one type of gay man. Harold is pursued by a stereotyped, predatory gay man, an antiqu aler.
AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED
Negative portrayals of the LGBT+ muny on televisn are wispread at this time, but radil for s day, toward the end of this episo of Steptoe and Son a gay police officer is troduced, whout all the ual stereotyped characterisatns. Tom Robson’s ‘Glad to Gay’ is released reachg 18 the Top 40 wh a week. Intifyg as gay, Robson is unique chart mic at the time, when rerd pani expect artist to be the closet for fear of affectg sal.
‘Glad to be Gay’ is banned by Rad 1’s Top 40 show, and not performed on Top of the Pops, but John Peel ntu to play . Tom Robson later prents many mic and magaze programm across BBC Robson performs ‘Glad to be Gay’, 1978. A play based around a rearcher's disvery of thker and early gay rights mpaigner Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) Other Si: Only Connect, Friday 18 May 1979, 21.
But Lewis is actually a life-long homosexual and when he rashly ntribut an article to a gay magaze, looks as though he may be forced to clare himself. Meanwhile science strand Horizon broadsts Killer the Village, the first full-length -pth UK documentary on the health crisis emergg New York’s gay village known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS.