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Glad To Be Gay, songs and lyrics by Tom Robson.

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GLAD TO BE GAYTOM ROBSON BANDTRACK 13 ON POWER THE DARKNS “(SG IF YOU’RE) GLAD TO BE GAY,” ORIGALLY RELEASED 1978 AS PART OF THE BUT EP OF THE GROUP TOM ROBSON BAND IS NOT ONLY ONE OF THE MOST FG SONGS OF THE BAND… READ MORE 1 VIEWER23.3K VIEWS12 CONTRIBUTORSGLAD TO BE GAY LYRICS[SPOKEN WORD INTRO]THIS SONG IS DITED TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATN, ’S A MEDIL SONG AND NCERNS A DISEASE WHOSE CLASSIFITN ACRDG TO THE INTERNATNAL CLASSIFITN OF DISEAS IS 302.0[VERSE 1]THE BRISH POLICE ARE THE BT THE WORLDI DON'T BELIEVE ONE OF THE STORI I'VE HEARD'BOUT THEM RAIDG OUR PUBS FOR NO REASON AT ALLLG THE CTOMERS UP BY THE WALLPICKG OUT PEOPLE AND KNOCKG THEM DOWNRISTG ARRT AS THEY'RE KICKED ON THE GROUNDSEARCHG THEIR HO AND LLG THEM QUEERI DON'T BELIEVE THAT SORT OF THG HAPPENS HERE[CHOS]SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY(HEY!) SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY[VERSE 2]PICTUR OF NAKED YOUNG WOMEN ARE FUNIN TBS AND PLAYBOY, PAGE THREE OF THE SUNTHERE'S NO NUS GAY NEWS, OUR ONE MAGAZEBUT THEY STILL FD EXC TO LL OBSCENEREAD HOW DISGTG WE ARE THE PRSTHE TELEGRAPH, PEOPLE AND SUNDAY EXPRSMOLTERS OF CHILDREN, RPTORS OF YOUTHIT'S THERE THE PAPER, MT BE THE TTHYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS](TRY AND) SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY(HEY!) SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY[VERSE 3]DON'T TRY TO KID THAT IF YOU'RE DISCREETYOU'RE PERFECTLY SAFE AS YOU WALK DOWN THE STREETYOU DON'T HAVE TO MCE OR MAKE BCHY REMARKSTO GET BEATEN UNNSC AND LEFT THE DARKI HAD A IEND WHO WAS GENTLE AND SHORTHE WAS LONELY ONE EVENG AND WENT FOR A WALKQUEERBASHERS UGHT HIM, KICKED HIS TEETHHE WAS ONLY HOSPALISED FOR A WEEK(AND HE STILL BEARS THE SRS)[CHOS]SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY(HEY!) SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY[VERSE 4]AND S BACK AND WATCH AS THEY CLOSE DOWN OUR CLUBSARRT FOR MEETG AND RAID ALL OUR PUBSMAKE SURE YOUR BOYIEND'S AT LEAST 21SO ONLY YOUR IENDS AND YOUR BROTHERS GET DONELIE TO YOUR WORKMAT, LIE TO YOUR FOLKSPUT DOWN THE QUEENS, TELL ANTI-QUEER JOKGAY LIB'S RIDICULO, JO THEIR LGHTER'THE BUGGERS ARE LEGAL NOW, WHAT MORE ARE THEY AFTER?'(TELL THEM!)[CHOS]SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY(HEY!) SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAYSG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY(HEY!) SG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THIS WAY3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Glad to Be Gay Lyrics: This song is dited to the World Health Organizatn, ’s a medil song and ncerns a disease whose classifitn acrdg to the Internatnal Classifitn of * sing if you re glad to be gay *

Glad to Be Gay Lyrics[Spoken Word Intro]This song is dited to the World Health Organizatn, ’s a medil song and ncerns a disease whose classifitn acrdg to the Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas is 302. 0[Verse 1]The Brish Police are the bt the worldI don't believe one of the stori I've heard'Bout them raidg our pubs for no reason at allLg the ctomers up by the wallPickg out people and knockg them downRistg arrt as they're kicked on the groundSearchg their ho and llg them queerI don't believe that sort of thg happens here[Chos]Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that way(Hey!

GLAD TO BE GAY 87

(Sg If You're) Glad To Be Gay by Tom Robson Band song meang, lyric terpretatn, vio and chart posn * sing if you re glad to be gay *

) Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that way[Verse 2]Pictur of naked young women are funIn Tbs and Playboy, page three of The SunThere's no nus Gay News, our one magazeBut they still fd exc to ll obsceneRead how disgtg we are the prsThe Telegraph, People and Sunday ExprsMolters of children, rptors of youthIt's there the paper, mt be the tth[Chos](Try and) Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that way(Hey!

SG IF YOU’RE GLAD TO BE GAY

Vio clip and lyrics Glad to be gay by Robson Tom. Sg if you're glad to be gay Sg if you're happy that way, hey Sg if you're glad to be gay Sg if.. * sing if you re glad to be gay *

) Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that way[Verse 3]Don't try to kid that if you're discreetYou're perfectly safe as you walk down the streetYou don't have to mce or make bchy remarksTo get beaten unnsc and left the darkI had a iend who was gentle and shortHe was lonely one eveng and went for a walkQueerbashers ught him, kicked his teethHe was only hospalised for a week(And he still bears the srs)[Chos]Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that way(Hey!

) Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that way[Verse 4]And s back and watch as they close down our clubsArrt for meetg and raid all our pubsMake sure your boyiend's at least 21So only your iends and your brothers get doneLie to your workmat, lie to your folksPut down the queens, tell anti-queer jokGay Lib's ridiculo, jo their lghter'The buggers are legal now, what more are they after? )[Chos]Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that way(Hey! ) Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that waySg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy that way(Hey!

) Sg if you're glad to be gaySg if you're happy this way. Songfacts®:"(Sg If You're) Glad To Be Gay" by the Tom Robson Band (TRB) was rerd as part of a live EP November 1977 and appears on Robson's crilly acclaimed but album Power In The Darkns. As the tle impli, 's a song about gay pri, released at a time when was very difficult to be gay Bra.

GLAD TO BE GAY

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"A lot of heterosexuals don't unrstand that you grow up beg tght to hate and fear homosexuals before you're of an age to know you are one, " Robson told Q magaze. "After all, male homosexual activy was illegal Bra until 1967.

"In 1972, David Bowie me out as gay the Brish mic magaze Melody Maker. This was a watershed moment for many gay youth the UK who found the strength to e out, Holly Johnson of Frankie Go to Hollywood and Boy Gee of Culture Club among them.

GLAD TO BE GAY CHORDS

Homosexualy was crimalised for over-21s 1967 yet prosecutns ntued unr ‘gross cency’, ‘solicg’ and ‘loerg’ laws, while the WHO classified homosexualy as an illns. Usg an ironic voice and light tune, this song rerds gay people beg harassed, beaten, and misreprented by the prs. Seekg to reclassify the gay muny as subjects of a civil rights stggle, the chos ‘Sg, if you’re glad to be gay’ this live rerdg is a powerful claratn of pri and self-rescriptn. * sing if you re glad to be gay *

"That's what 'Glad To Be Gay' is about: fulfillg that pledge. "The song ntas the tertg uplet:There's no nus Gay News, our one magazeBut they still found exc to ll obsceneIn June 1976, Gay News published a poem by the amic Jam Kirkup, The Love That Dar To Speak Its Name (a pun on Osr Wil). GLAD TO BE GAY CHORDS by Tom Robson Band @.

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Released as ‘Glad To Be Gay (1987)’ on The Collectn [EMI EMC3540], 1987.

Sg if you’re glad to be gay.

And now there’s a ncer to blame on the gays. Cos savg gay liv don’t w any vot.

GLAD TO BE GAY LYRICS

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So try and sg if you’re glad to be gay. There’s a lot of lyric chang for glad to be gay 87.

This is 1987, clse 28 was given assent 1988, so this was also the party that was enactg specifilly homophobic legislatn. ‘The women of Greenham they smeared and spised’ is broar polics rather than gay issu. But the smearg was that they were gay, that they were a bunch of crazy fuckg dyk.

This is 87, the height of homophobia over Aids the Sun, of ‘Pulp Poofs Can Stay’, of [lumnist] Richard Ltlejohn unleashed at his most rabid, and [edor] Kelv MacKenzie gone mad.

SG IF YOU’RE GLAD TO BE GAY, SG IF YOU’RE HAPPY THAT WAY. — THE TOM ROBSON BAND

An accatn was levelled at me last year when I publicly rejected the notn that gay beme "queer." The charge, short, is that I am a selfish gay man. Now that gay rights are secured--the removal of the stigma of beg gay, the eedom to live openly, to participate fully society, the right… * sing if you re glad to be gay *

Constant homophobia headl the Sun. It’s odd that they attacked Elton on a number of onts wh his homosexualy beg the basis of their hatred, and nversely they hated the Greenham women polilly so ma homosexualy the basis of their attacks.

‘And now there’s a ncer to blame on the gays. Cos savg gay liv don’t w any vot’. It was difficult to squeeze the spe of what was gog on to a new verse a song like Glad To Be Gay.

My generatn of gay men saw their iends die like fli around them. Glad to be gay.

TOM ROBSON - GLAD TO BE GAY CHORDS

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Sg if you're glad to be gay. There's no nus Gay News our one magaze.

Gay Lib's ridiculo, jo their lghter. (Sg If You're) Glad To Be Gayby Dr Louise ChambersBack 1977, the Tom Robson Band (TRB) issued a live EP on the back of their first h sgle, 2-4-6-8 Motorway.

The EP prised four tracks and one of them would, the history of rock mic, be landmarks bee celebrated gay sexualy. (Sg if You're) Glad To Be Gay was origally wrten for London Pri 1976 and the lyrics, like many of Robson’s songs, are polilly explic and re-prted all their glory on the right of this page. Venu featurg punk and New Wave bands, however, were not so reluctant, and I remember many ocsns when I would be among a crowd of punks and happily engagg a pre-gig sg-a-long to Glad To Be Gay.

GLAD TO BE GAY, SONG LYRICS

For some of , however, Glad To Be Gay was the first gunshot the battle to get explicly queer mic on the rad and on TV.

As for Tom Robson, he went on to enjoy a solo reer and, at a benef for Gay Swchboard, he met and married Sue, wh whom he has had two children. Of urse, the idt tabloid prs claimed that Robson had ‘gone straight’, an accatn he refuted by addg the followg lyric to Glad to be Gay on the 1996 album, Havg It Both Ways:"Well if gay liberatn means eedom for all, a label is no liberatn at all. "Robson has scribed himself as ‘a gay man love wh a woman, and 2010, said:“I still like both men and women...

The Brish Police are the bt the worldI don’t believe one of the stori I’ve heard‘Bout them raidg our pubs for no reason at allLg the ctomers up by the wallPickg out people and knockg them downRistg arrt as they’re kicked on the groundSearchg their ho and llg them queerI don’t believe that sort of thg happens hereSg if you’re glad to be gaySg if you’re happy that waySg if you’re glad to be gaySg if you’re happy that wayPictur of naked young women are funIn Tbs and Playboy, page three of The SunThere’s no nus Gay News our one magazeBut they still fd exc to ll obsceneRead how disgtg we are the prsTelegraph, People and Sunday ExprsMolters of children, rptors of youthIt’s there the paper, mt be the tthSg if you’re glad to be gaySg if you’re happy that waySg if you’re glad to be gaySg if you’re happy that wayDon’t try to kid that if you’re discreetYou’re perfectly safe as you walk down the streetYou don’t have to mce or make bchy remarksTo get beaten unnsc and left the darkI had a iend who was gentle and shortHe was lonely one eveng and went for a walkQueer-bashers ught him and kicked his teethHe was only hospalised for a weekSg if you’re glad to be gaySg if you’re happy that waySg if you’re glad to be gaySg if you’re happy that waySo s back and watch as they close all our clubsArrt for meetg and raid all our pubsMake sure your boyiend’s at least 21So only your iends and your brothers get doneLie to your workmat, lie to your folksPut down the queens and tell anti-queer jokGay Lib’s ridiculo, jo their lghter‘The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?

GLAD TO BE GAY ’97TOM ROBSONTRACK 14 ON CABARET ’79 1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGLAD TO BE GAY ’97 LYRICSTHE BRISH POLICE ARE THE BT THE WORLDI DON'T BELIEVE ONE OF THE STORI I'VE HEARD'BOUT THEM SPENDG THREE LN TO BT UP A RGOF NSENTG LEATHERMEN DOG THEIR THG;IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN PRIVATEWHERE NO-ONE PLAEDBUT THE JUDGE PUT AN END TO THEIR FUN AND THEIR GAMHE SENTENCED THE MEMBERS TO FOUR OR FIVE YEARSI N'T BELIEVE THAT SORT OF THG HAPPENS HERESG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAY, HEYTHE LIARS OF WAPPG ARE REALLY THE PSCOMMISSNED BY BIGOTS AND WRTEN BY SHSTHEY PLASTER THEIR PAG WH BGO AND TSTHEN ADD ALL THE SNDAL AND SLANR THAT FSTHEY PICK OUT THEIR VICTIMS, STROYG THEIR LIVTHEY SNEER AS THEY SMEAR AS THEY DAMN AND SPISEIF 'S PAEDOPHILE TEACHERS OR LBIAN NUNSIF 'S FILTH AND 'S FICTN... 'S THERE THE SUNAND NOW THERE'S A NIGHTMARETHEY BLAME ON THE GAYSIT'S BTAL AND LETHAL AND SLOWLY VASTHE MEDIL FACTS ARE IGNORED OR FOTBY THE BIGOTS WHO THKIT'S THE JUDGEMENT OF GODATTACKED BY THE VATIN, BASHED BY THE BILLWH CHEAP POLICIANS ALL MAKG A KILLTHE MSAGE IS SIMPLE AND OBV, PLEASEJT LAY OFF THE PATIENTS AND LET'S FIGHT THE DISEASEYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEFOR 21 YEARS NOW I'VE FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHTFOR PEOPLE TO LOVE JT WHOEVER THEY LIKEBUT THE RIGHT-ON AND RIGHTEO ARE OUT FOR MY BLOODNOW I LIVE WH MY KID AND A WOMAN I LOVEWELL IF GAY LIBERATN MEANS EEDOM FOR ALLA LABEL IS NO LIBERATN AT ALLI'M HERE AND I'M QUEER AND I DO WHAT I DOAND I'M NOT GONNA WEAR... A STRAJACKET FOR YOUSG IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAYSG IF YOU'RE HAPPY THAT WAYEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌CABARET ’79 (1982)TOM ROBSON1. PUB HASSLE2. COLDHARBOUR LANE3. BABY YOU’RE AN ANGEL4. GLAD TO BE GAY ’795. STAND TOGETHER6. EASY STREET7. TCE8. CLOSG A DOOR9. 1967 (SO LONG AGO)10. EVEN STEVEN11. SARTORIAL ELOQUENCE12. MAD ABOUT THE BOY13. GOOD TO BE GAY14. GLAD TO BE GAY ’9715. LAST R16. GAY SWCHBOARD JGLECREDSTAGSROCKEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

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