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Contents:
- WAS PL OGRADY GAY? ILLNS AND HEALTH CONDN BEFORE DEATH
- WAS PL O’GRADY GAY?
- WAS PL O’GRADY GAY? THE TTH ABOUT PL O’GRADY’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN
WAS PL OGRADY GAY? ILLNS AND HEALTH CONDN BEFORE DEATH
* is paul ogrady gay *
Performg for a good eHe put his heart, and work, to supportg the muny durg the HIV add: “What a lot of people don’t know is that Pl was performg regularly at the Royal Vxhall Tavern [a gay pub South London] behd the scen to the home crowd and was really stmental g his celebry to raise money for HIV . When Pl me out on stage, the police were all wearg bber glov and manhandlg the gay ctomers and staff. The police thought you uld get HIV by touchg a gay person.
“Even after the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy 1967, thoands of gay and bisexual men were arrted for nsentg, victimls behavur malic, vdictive raids, ” he said. Inspirg activismO’Grady’s challengg of HIV stigma and his loud voice about he believed enuraged activists like Hall actor said: “People like Pl spire me on those days where feels hard, when feels like we are regrsg, when the trans muny is beg persecuted and when gay hate crim are growg. Pl O’Grady may have been a natnal treasure but before anythg he was a gay hero.
WAS PL O’GRADY GAY?
Was Pl Ogrady Gay? Pl Jam O'Grady is an English edian, broadster, Actor, wrer, and former drag queen. * is paul ogrady gay *
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
Pl O'Grady and his drag alter-ego, Lily Savage, broke barriers for gay rights and mastream acceptance wh a middle fger up to the tablishment. * is paul ogrady 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 . 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.