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
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- 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.
’ 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.
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 *
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.
Wikipedia not of his polics: "In 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 Conservative Party the light of his homosexualy and the party'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. The late royal is said to have joed the Queen in for a night at a London gay pub, along wh their good iend Kenny Everett, at the height of their fame the has been plenty of speculatn surroundg Diana’s trip to the famo Vxhall Tavern over the years, and was recently dramatised (wh some poetic licence) the Sky Arts seri Urban night Prcs Diana got arrted: Sarah Fergon rells credible cintFreddie Mercury had heartbreakg reason for keepg AIDS diagnosis secretThe Story of...
They said they were headg to the legendary gay venue London – and Diana is believed to have asked if she uld jo then allegedly drsed Diana up his cloth, and Ros claimed that she looked like "a rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol. ' […] Sctisg her the half light, we cid that the most famo in of the morn world might jt – jt – pass for a rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol…"We ched through the leather throngs and thongs, until fally we reached the bar. Open about his own homosexualy, he was also known for his work as a gay rights activist the last few years of his life.
GAY TIMES 100, JANUARY 1987
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” When Diana quired about their eveng plans, Mercury said they were planng to vis the Royal Vxhall Tavern, one of the most inic gay venu London.
“Sctizg her the half light, ” Ros ntu, “we cid that the most famo in of the morn world might jt – jt – pass for a rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol. While Queen's rock mic is wily regard by lns of fans across the globe as a passport to a world wh zero judgment and tchy chants, Prcs Diana nsired their mic as a leral pe to a different world, one that clud drag queens, rens of 'Goln Girls', and gay bars, Yahoo reports. Later that night, Prcs Diana asked if she uld tag along for a trip to the famo gay bar Royal Vxhall Tavern when she found out the group's next plan.