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- GAY GLASGOW IC LARRY DEAN ON WHY HE'S BREAKG THE MOULD OF MP EDIANSTHE YOUNG GLASWEGIAN SAYS HE'S NOTHG LIKE ELTON JOHN, ALAN CARR OR ANY OF THE OTHER REGNISABLE GAY MEN THE MEDIA.DAILYRERDBOOKMARKSHAREENTERTAMENTBYANNA BURNSI07:30, 11 JUL 2015UPDATED11:28, 11 JUL 2015BOOKMARKLARRY DEANS (IMAGE: GARRY F MCHARG)GET THE LATT ENTERTAMENT NEWS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR WEEKLY SHOWBIZ NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT ENTERTAMENT NEWS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR WEEKLY SHOWBIZ NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- LEGENDARY ACTOR STANLEY BAXTER OUT AS GAY AGED 94 AND REVEALS HE WOULD BRG MEN HOME WH HIS WIFE’S BLSG
- SAN CALMAN: GAY STTISH COMEDIAN
- I’M GAY BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE, ADMS EDIAN
- LGH YOUR FEARS AWAY WH 7 OF THE FUNNIT GAY COMEDIANS EVER
- OUTLANR’S JOHN BELL ON GROWG UP QUEER FILM: ‘I HAD MOMENTS OF WANTG TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY’
- GERMAN GAY PORN STAR-TURNED FIREMAN, 43, NS FOR STTISH PARLIAMENT
- ACTOR STANLEY BAXTER OUT AS GAY NEW BOOK LIFTG THE LID ON HIS TROUBLED PRIVATE LIFE
- SAM HGHAN SHUT DOWN GAY MORS PAST BY ADDRSG WILD CLAIMS ABOUT SEXUALY
GAY GLASGOW IC LARRY DEAN ON WHY HE'S BREAKG THE MOULD OF MP EDIANSTHE YOUNG GLASWEGIAN SAYS HE'S NOTHG LIKE ELTON JOHN, ALAN CARR OR ANY OF THE OTHER REGNISABLE GAY MEN THE MEDIA.DAILYRERDBOOKMARKSHAREENTERTAMENTBYANNA BURNSI07:30, 11 JUL 2015UPDATED11:28, 11 JUL 2015BOOKMARKLARRY DEANS (IMAGE: GARRY F MCHARG)GET THE LATT ENTERTAMENT NEWS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR WEEKLY SHOWBIZ NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT ENTERTAMENT NEWS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR WEEKLY SHOWBIZ NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
THE young Glaswegian says he's nothg like Elton John, Alan Carr or any of the other regnisable gay men the media. * scottish gay comedian *
He is a young gay Glaswegian edian, obssed wh Celtic, and not the least mp. ” Beg as intifiably gay as his namake Larry Grayson would, he says, make his life a lot easier.
But bee he’s absolutely nothg like the 1970s TV prenter, or Elton John, or Alan Carr, or any of the other regnisable gay men of the mass media, means Larry fds himself havg the same nversatn over and over aga. He said: “The problem is, sce I don’t e across as mp, people don’t have an assumptn I’m gog to be gay.
“When I tell someone I’m gay, they say, ‘Is that you out now? ” Benr is Larry’s chosen word to scribe his this-is-me-handle- versn of homosexualy.
LEGENDARY ACTOR STANLEY BAXTER OUT AS GAY AGED 94 AND REVEALS HE WOULD BRG MEN HOME WH HIS WIFE’S BLSG
Stanley Baxter has e out as gay a new bgraphy, wh the legendary Sttish actor revealg his wife would let him brg men home. * scottish gay comedian *
The word gay has too many negative associatns. “I ed to pray not to be gay.
SAN CALMAN: GAY STTISH COMEDIAN
* scottish gay comedian *
Larry said: “When I was growg up, my iends’ worst sult was ‘that’s gay’. I associate the word gay wh beg a bad thg.
” Benr, for those who have grown up more enlightened tim, is an old Glaswegian term for a gay man. “I don’t go around llg other gay people a benr, ” he said.
” Gay is, he says, too ser.
I’M GAY BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE, ADMS EDIAN
One of Stland’s greatt edians has e out as gay but admted: “I never wanted to be, I still don’t.”Stanley Baxter, 94, said that he and his wife, Moira Robertson, knew that he was gay before they married almost 50 years ago. The thorised bgraphy of the entertaer reveals that the secr" name="scriptn * scottish gay comedian *
We’re absolutely fe wh you beg gay, but don’t want to know exactly what you do. Larry said: “It me up about me beg gay and I started talkg about the way I thk about . Sttish actor, edian, and performer Stanley Baxter me out as gay a new thorized bgraphy and revealed that his wife let him brg home men for sex while they were married.
"At the time, homosexualy was illegal the untry.
LGH YOUR FEARS AWAY WH 7 OF THE FUNNIT GAY COMEDIANS EVER
We ught up wh Outlanr's John Bell to talk ternalised homophobia, growg up gay, and his new turn The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. * scottish gay comedian *
Alan Turg, famed Brish breaker and the subject of the movie The Imatn Game was prosecuted, imprisoned, and chemilly strated for homosexual acts was arrted 1961 for allegedly solicg sex om unrver police officers a public bathroom.
OUTLANR’S JOHN BELL ON GROWG UP QUEER FILM: ‘I HAD MOMENTS OF WANTG TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY’
German-born Philipp Tanzer, a 43-year-old former gay porn actor and fireman, is the Sttish Fay Party's regnal list ndidate for the Highlands and Islands at the Holyrood electns. * scottish gay comedian *
He eventually revealed to her he was gay and uld not marry, but she refed to accept no for an answer and the pair eventually tied the knot. "RELATED | This Actor Jt Came Out as Gay for His 100th Birthday. Legendary actor Stanley Baxter has e out as gay aged 94 after 25 years of livg as a virtual recle.
This would be NO life for you, married to someone who is sentially and primarily a homosexual. I never wanted to be gay. “There are many gay people the days who are fairly fortable wh their sexualy, fairly happy wh who they are.
GERMAN GAY PORN STAR-TURNED FIREMAN, 43, NS FOR STTISH PARLIAMENT
The Sttish stage and screen star Stanley Baxter has lifted the lid on his personal life to reveal he spent nearly 50 years married spe knowg he was gay. * scottish gay comedian *
Acrdg to Daily Mail, Sttish actor, edian, and performer Stanley Baxter (The Stanley Baxter Movg Picture Show, The First Lady, and Crooks Anonymo) recently me out as gay.
Baxter also talked about once beg arrted, as homosexualy was once illegal the untry. There are many gay people the days who are fairly fortable wh their sexualy, fairly happy wh who they are. One of his followers, an open-mic standup, scribed “experienc of blatant homophobia when to bookg, ” Bailey says.
“One venue wouldn’t book him bee, acrdg to them, their dience ‘wouldn’t like the gay stuff’. ”In the past, Bailey has had homophobic heckl shgged off by venu and been turned down for jobs bee there was already one “mp edian” booked.
ACTOR STANLEY BAXTER OUT AS GAY NEW BOOK LIFTG THE LID ON HIS TROUBLED PRIVATE LIFE
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The GuardianFellow -founr Chloe Petts says: “I thk ‘whe man’ is allowed not to be a genre, but ‘gay’ is a genre.
No, gay is jt a thg that we are.
SAM HGHAN SHUT DOWN GAY MORS PAST BY ADDRSG WILD CLAIMS ABOUT SEXUALY
” Comic Lee Peart agre: “No one bats an eyelid when ’s four straight, whe edians, but if you have four gay acts, people are like: is this a special night? ” Peart has found people expect a certa style of explic edy based purely on his sexualy: “The assumptn is: beg gay is havg sex wh men.