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Contents:
- REMEMBERG PL O’GRADY, THE ANARCHIC GAY PERFORMER WHO FILTRATED UK TV
- WAS PL O’GRADY GAY? THE TTH ABOUT PL O’GRADY’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN
- WAS PL OGRADY GAY? ILLNS AND HEALTH CONDN BEFORE DEATH
REMEMBERG PL O’GRADY, THE ANARCHIC GAY PERFORMER WHO FILTRATED UK TV
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Pl O’Grady may have been a natnal treasure but before anythg he was a gay hero. As a gay storyteller myself, I found him hugely spirg. He had a passn for social jtice, and om an early age was fired up by ignorance and and foremost, though, he was a gay activist.
It showed the mastream public that gay people uld be jt like them. And showed gay people that was possible to be embraced by society whout havg to sanise certa of the ls “rpectable” elements of our culture.
WAS PL O’GRADY GAY? THE TTH ABOUT PL O’GRADY’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN
In the wake of his ath, Shon Faye wr a tribute to the pillar of culture and beloved natnal treasure who never sacrificed his opns, his personaly, his gayns return for his rise to beg a hoehold name * paul o grady gay *
Unr a portra of Lily Savage, he told me about the sense of terror he felt the first time he vised a gay bar, worried about what he was unleashg himself. This was a time when lovg for gay men was a polil act; the media and, general nversatn, we were routely rced to what we did the bedroom – which allowed people to disrpect .
WAS PL OGRADY GAY? ILLNS AND HEALTH CONDN BEFORE DEATH
In this article, we are explorg whether Pl O’Grady was gay or not. * paul o grady gay *
By sharg some of the patients’ stori, he humanised them long before It’s a S burst on to our TV also, chillgly, evoked the terror that ripped through the gay muny – and the revulsn wh which we were viewed by many. O’Grady was prent at several police raids on gay bars, most famoly at London’s Royal Vxhall Tavern 1987, when the police wore bber glov to avoid touchg gay men.
And he provid a ccial lk for the gay muny to our are pretty much the only mory muny who don’t tomatilly have parents om the same mory. Bee of crimalisatn, prejudice and the Aids crisis, there are very few people we n hold up as gay elrs.