On the May Day Bank Holiday, one of three extra long weekends the UK durg the month of May, northwt based ter statn Merseyland Alternative Rad, broadst a rare seri of rerdgs featurg the popular and much missed gay rad disc jockey and edian Kenny Everett, whose reer s
Contents:
- DID FREDDIE MERCURY REALLY TAKE PRCS DIANA TO A LONDON GAY PUB THE '80S?
- PRCS DIANA SECRETLY ATTEND GAY BAR PARTY DISGUISED AS DRAG QUEEN WH LONGTIME IEND FREDDIE MERCURY, REVEALS MEMOIR
- GAY TIMES 100, JANUARY 1987
DID FREDDIE MERCURY REALLY TAKE PRCS DIANA TO A LONDON GAY PUB THE '80S?
Kenny Everett was a Brish edian, rad DJ and televisn prenter. He was also a proment gay figure durg the 1980s and 90s. * kenny everett gay *
Later on, In the documentary Unfettable Kenny Everett, his -host stat “Once I got to know him socially off the ship, was very obv that his sexual tennci were homosexual and he looked at as bad and so he fought all the way. She often appeared nothg more than illy unrwear and high an terview on Ireland’s The Late Late Show wh Gay Byrne and Séad O’Connor Febary 1989, Everett was challenged by O’Connor about his support for the Tory Party the light of his homosexualy and the Conservative’s Sectn 28 addn to the Lol Government Act.
He said he would stand up for gay rights if he were asked providg “ was a jolly ocsn”, but he also felt that beg a mory and the public eye, he uld do more for gay rights by showg that he was funny and human rather than by marchg the streets.
PRCS DIANA SECRETLY ATTEND GAY BAR PARTY DISGUISED AS DRAG QUEEN WH LONGTIME IEND FREDDIE MERCURY, REVEALS MEMOIR
Openly gay Kenny Everett was an extraordary ic geni whose outrageo c humor phed the boundari of bad taste on Br TV the 1970s * kenny everett gay *
’ For years he was a closeted gay man and married to sger and psychic Audrey Lee “Lady Lee” Middleton for a before he stck up close iendship wh Freddie Mercury who helped Everett to accept his sexualy. Wh a , he’d realised he was gay and they parted but remaed iends, and was she who found him his first boyiend. However, the pair eventually beme tranged after Everett acced Lee of publicly outg him as gay her 1987 tobgraphy, Kds of Lovg.
GAY TIMES 100, JANUARY 1987
* kenny everett gay *
Though he was, by then, his first gay relatnship, wh a lovely guy, an Atralian waer who was voted to him, he still didn’t want to lose me, ' Lee once said. ’However the former married uple’s relatnship turned sour after Everett acced Lee of publicly outg him as gay her 1987 tobgraphy, Kds of two beme tranged and the edian died of Aids 1995. On the May Day Bank Holiday, one of three extra long weekends the UK durg the month of May, northwt based ter statn Merseyland Alternative Rad, broadst a rare seri of rerdgs featurg the popular and much missed gay rad disc jockey and edian Kenny Everett, whose reer sadly was cut short April 1995 when he passed on om an AIDS related illns, jt a year before the troductn of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapi totally changed the prognosis of those livg wh HIV.