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ANDREW MARR ASKS RSELL T DAVI IF STG GAY ACTORS ‘PRIV DIENC OF GREAT PERFORMANC’ BY STRAIGHT PEOPLE
Televisn prenter Andrew Marr has been cricised after sayg that many gay people were happy and “dignified” before the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy. In a recent piece for the Eveng Standard, Marr argued that while many gay people Bra did suffer prr to the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1967, wasn’t entirely negative. Acrdg to the piece, Marr is currently workg on a social history of the 20th century and was surprised to disver multiple stori of happy gay people.
“I have been much stck by other ways which gay men and women were able to live tolerable, even happy liv, long before gay liberatn, ” he wrote. In the piece, Marr praised the “rich, lively gay Bra” that existed prr to crimalisatn, though he did note that much of occurred unrground. It’s important to note that while the 1967 crimalisatn of homosexualy was signifint, is often referred to as a partial crimalisatn, as only said was no longer illegal for two men to have sex the privacy of their own home.
Marr ntued to say that while many gay men at the time were beg ‘arrted public toilets’ and sent to prison for beg gay, this was not universal. Marr the late poser Benjam Brten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, who were highly praised and notably favoured by the Queen as exampl of how gay men were sometim accepted if they were “discreet. The veteran broadster wrote: “Brten and Pears, like many gay people the middle of the 20th century, were simply private, discreet and dignified.