Sir Elton John tells LGBT awards: ‘I’m gay and I’m proud’ | Eveng Standard

Contents:

• CURTA RIS ON GIELGUD'S GAY SNDAL
• JOHN GAY
• SIR JOHN GAY ALLEYNE 1ST BART.
• JOHN GAY
• SIR ELTON JOHN TELLS LGBT AWARDS: ‘I’M GAY AND I’M PROUD’
• ELTON JOHN SLAMS VATIN FOR BLSG S ‘ROCKETMAN’ VTMENT BUT NOT GAY MARRIAGE
• 9 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MOUNT GAY RUM
• GAY CLERIC STALLED AMID PROTTS
• GAY BISHOP FOR SOUTHWARK 'WILL SPL CHURCH OF ENGLAND'

CURTA RIS ON GIELGUD'S GAY SNDAL

' While rehearsg the crypt of St Jam's Church, Picdilly, for the Wt End revival of the play The Gay Lord Quex - an unfortunate tle, given the circumstanc - Gielgud and Dench saw a man shg out of the men's toilets rryg a pair of troers, pursued by another man whout any troers. He had banned Morley om any discsn of his homosexualy, so the book was far om five. In 1985, my book Royal Fd, I published for the first time Coward's admissn to me of his homosexual relatnship wh Prce Gee, De of Kent, uncle of the Queen.

It was missned 1990, but Morley had no tentn of publishg the actor's lifetime, so he might have a ee hand to explore his homosexualy and arrt for importung.

JOHN GAY

The new play, Plague Over England, will suggt that the high-profile se helped to brg the untry nearer to makg homosexualy legal. While he did not hi his homosexualy, he never discsed openly. 'The cric and thor, who has wrten about the history of homosexualy Brish theatre and has been a reviewer for the London Eveng Standard for 17 years, said he had not planned to wre a play: 'I don't know how happened.

'The script has been drawn large part om Jongh's own rearch wh survivg iends and lleagu of Gielgud's and is set at the time of the arrt, then later 1974, when the actor took his first gay role Harold Pter's play No Man's LandThe work is tend to remd dienc of the strength of anti-gay sentiment the Fifti. Homosexualy was equently likened to dg addictn or an epimic of ncer. The Churchill ernment is thought by some to have promoted a wch-hunt after spi Guy Burgs and Donald Maclean, who were both gay, fected to the Soviet Unn.

SIR JOHN GAY ALLEYNE 1ST BART.

John Gay, (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple. Gay’s journalistic terts are clearly seen a pamphlet, The Prent State of W (1711), a survey of ntemporary perdil publitns.

JOHN GAY

It is such lite probg of the surface of social life that Gay excels. Gay was a member, together wh Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Arbuthnot, of the Scribles Club, a lerary group that aimed to ridicule pedantry.

SIR ELTON JOHN TELLS LGBT AWARDS: ‘I’M GAY AND I’M PROUD’

The iends ntributed to two of Gay’s satiril plays: The What D’ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717) most succsful play was The Beggar’s Opera, produced London on Jan.

“Hont” John Gay lost most of his money through disastro vtment South Sea stock, but he nohels left £6, 000 when he died.

ELTON JOHN SLAMS VATIN FOR BLSG S ‘ROCKETMAN’ VTMENT BUT NOT GAY MARRIAGE

Sir John Gay Alleyne 1st Bart.

Children of John Gay Alleyne:. Wh Christian Dott: Gay Alleyne (baptised 20 April 1747; no rerd of his ath). John Gay Newton Alleyne (18 Febary 1787-1800; died at school, Eton College); Mary Spir Alleyne (21 May 1788-10 June 1862); Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne (10 June 1789-14 Febary 1870).

Married Rebec Olton, 20 September 1810; Jane Gay Alleyne (11 November 1790-23 November 1836; died Clevedon, Somerset); Rebec Brahwae Alleyne (18 November 1792-13 March 1846; married Dr John William Bovell, St Jam Church, Barbados, 20 November 1810. Stoute, Barbados Sunday Advote News, 9 October 1977 Stoute, Scrapbooks (Barbados Department of Archiv), IV; John Gilmore, ‘Alleyne, Sir John Gay, first baro (1724–1801)’, Oxford Dictnary of Natnal Bgraphy onle; William Kennedy Papers, William L.

9 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MOUNT GAY RUM

Alleyne's wife appears to have been the prcipal owner; Sir John Gay Alleyne had a life tert unr a settlement of 1782. Are Sherlock and John gay? Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay.

Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper stead.

By 1714, Gay had started rrpondg wh Alexanr Pope and bee a member of the Scribles Club, a group that clud Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Lord Oxford.

GAY CLERIC STALLED AMID PROTTS

Gay’s publitns datg om this time clu the poems Trivia: Or, the Art of Walkg the Streets of London (1716) and The Shepherd’s Week (1714). The Scribles Club fluenced Gay’s major plays of this perd, The What D’Ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717), which was equently lked to Pope. Gay was more or ls pennt on patronage his whole life and lived var semi-employed stat wh a number of aristocrats.

Though relyg on the generosy of patrons such as the Duchs of Queensberry, Gay also earned money om his plays, pecially The Beggar’s Opera (1728), which enjoyed unprecented succs.

Allegedly satirizg then-prime mister Sir Robert Walpole, Gay’s play gaed notoriety and ma stagg s sequel, Polly, impossible until 1777. The Beggar’s Opera was some ways the culmatn of Gay’s reer.

GAY BISHOP FOR SOUTHWARK 'WILL SPL CHURCH OF ENGLAND'

Pope was a pallbearer and ntributed an epaph to Gay’s memorial.

Above are Gay’s own words: “Life is a jt; and all thgs show / I thought so once; but now I know .