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Contents:

• CURTA RIS ON GIELGUD'S GAY SNDAL
• ALEC GUNS'S GAY SI REVEALED
• ROW OVER SIR JOHN GIELGUD'S GAY PORN FILM TROER BAR STARRG NIGEL HAVERS
• ON THIS GAY DAY: SIR JOHN GIELGUD WAS BORN
• RSIA'S HIGHT RELIG AUTHORY JT COMPARED GAY MARRIAGE TO NAZI GERMANY

CURTA RIS ON GIELGUD'S GAY SNDAL

The new play, Plague Over England, will suggt that the high-profile se helped to brg the untry nearer to makg homosexualy legal. While he did not hi his homosexualy, he never discsed openly.

ALEC GUNS'S GAY SI REVEALED

'The cric and thor, who has wrten about the history of homosexualy Brish theatre and has been a reviewer for the London Eveng Standard for 17 years, said he had not planned to wre a play: 'I don't know how happened. 'The script has been drawn large part om Jongh's own rearch wh survivg iends and lleagu of Gielgud's and is set at the time of the arrt, then later 1974, when the actor took his first gay role Harold Pter's play No Man's LandThe work is tend to remd dienc of the strength of anti-gay sentiment the Fifti. Homosexualy was equently likened to dg addictn or an epimic of ncer.

The Churchill ernment is thought by some to have promoted a wch-hunt after spi Guy Burgs and Donald Maclean, who were both gay, fected to the Soviet Unn. Gielgud lived and worked an era when there was a nspiracy of silence around homosexualy outsi of theatril circl.

" Bgrapher Sheridan Morley wr that while Gielgud never nied beg homosexual, he always tried to be discreet about and felt huiated by the oral. Some speculate that helped to brg to public attentn a csa to crimalise homosexualy England and Wal. ↑ Rhoda Koenig "John Gielgud: When England hound a hero" The Inpennt, 28 Febary 2008 "The fs ntributed to the Wolfenn Commissn, set up the followg year to study prostutn, takg on homosexualy as well.

ROW OVER SIR JOHN GIELGUD'S GAY PORN FILM TROER BAR STARRG NIGEL HAVERS

"Yet, ironilly, the publicy surroundg Gielgud's arrt was one of the impet behd chang the law over homosexualy. The Wolfenn Commissn, set up to study prostutn, broaned s spe to clu homosexualy. ↑ Gay Tim Issue 114, March 1988 "Gielgud, 83, out.

' While rehearsg the crypt of St Jam's Church, Picdilly, for the Wt End revival of the play The Gay Lord Quex - an unfortunate tle, given the circumstanc - Gielgud and Dench saw a man shg out of the men's toilets rryg a pair of troers, pursued by another man whout any troers. He had banned Morley om any discsn of his homosexualy, so the book was far om five. In 1985, my book Royal Fd, I published for the first time Coward's admissn to me of his homosexual relatnship wh Prce Gee, De of Kent, uncle of the Queen.

ON THIS GAY DAY: SIR JOHN GIELGUD WAS BORN

It was missned 1990, but Morley had no tentn of publishg the actor's lifetime, so he might have a ee hand to explore his homosexualy and arrt for importung. Sir Alec Guns had a homosexual si which remaed publicly unknown his lifetime bee of the flair for evasn and secrecy which was also his tramark as an is to be disclosed three new theatril bgraphi.

They will reveal that Guns, who died last Augt aged 86, was arrted, charged and fed urt Liverpool 1946 for a homosexual act a public the se went unreported bee - unlike the late Sir John Gielgud a siar episo seven years later - he had the quickns of w to give a false name which aroed no spicns.

He was quickly mbled and the se ma newspaper headl which shadowed him for their ceptns, both ement actors are thought to have been actg on private advice om sympathetic policemen who were impatient for homosexual law reform. It is also to be disclosed by the novelist Piers Pl Read, Guns's thorised bgrapher, and another Guns bgraphy by Garry O' night Mr Morley - son of the actor Robert Morley, a Gielgud ntemporary - said Guns's gay si had "always been known" to his father and fay iends the theatre such as Dame Gladys Cooper. A gay porn film for which the celebrated Shakpearean actor secretly wrote the screenplay has been ma.

RSIA'S HIGHT RELIG AUTHORY JT COMPARED GAY MARRIAGE TO NAZI GERMANY

A gay porn film, secretly wrten by Sir John Gielgud (right) before his ath  2000 aged 96, has entered the productn stag and will feature Eighti heart-throb Nigel Havers (left), and mp edian Julian Clarey‘Earlier this year, the tste cid not to give their permissn for to be produced bee they didn’t thk was appropriate, ’ one member, Ian Bradshaw, tells me. ‘Pornography is still a stigma this untry, but Sir John loved porn and, his letters, he talks about visg gay cemas, ’ says McGillivray.