Gay Glasgow ic Larry Dean on why he's breakg the mould of mp edians - Daily Rerd

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• BBC CLAIMED GAY LARRY GRAYSON AND JOHN INMAN WERE 'WAG FOR THE RIGHT WOMAN'
• GAY BIRMGHAM REMEMBERED
• LGBT+: ‘PEOPLE ED TO THK BEG GAY MEANT YOU WERE LIKE LARRY GRAYSON'
• 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!
• LARRY ELR: WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH, IT’S TIME FOR ‘LET’S TAKE EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’

BBC CLAIMED GAY LARRY GRAYSON AND JOHN INMAN WERE 'WAG FOR THE RIGHT WOMAN'

The Gay Liberatn Front took agast him, the same way they also lambasted John “I’m ee” Inman, for their stereotypil mp portrayals of gay men. Larry’s theatre shows were picketed by gay rights mpaigners who wanted him to be hont about his sexualy. The days history has been kr to Larry Grayson, and many gay people acknowledge how important his ntributn to mp culture was, and how his mass populary did perhaps help spearhead greater acceptance of the LGBT muny.

BBC claimed gay stars Larry Grayson and John Inman were jt 'wag for the right woman', says ex-newsrear John Nilson worked on shows like BBC Breakfast and WatchdogRevealed BBC prs office was 'aghast' when he me out 2000After qutg the Corporatn, he was elected as an SNP MP May Published: 17:26 BST, 15 July 2015 | Updated: 01:49 BST, 16 July 2015. The BBC officially claimed stars like Larry Grayson and John Inman were jt 'wag for the right woman to e along' bee no-one uld be openly gay, a former newsrear has Nilson, who hosted BBC Breakfast and Watchdog before beg an MP, said the prs office staff at the rporatn were 'aghast' when he revealed he had told the media he was said that as recently as the year 2000, the BBC told him that 'no-one any field had ever been openly gay' BBC officially claimed stars like Larry Grayson (left) and John Inman (right) were jt 'wag for the right woman to e along' bee no-one uld be openly gay, former newsrear Jon Nilson revealedMr Nilson was a TV prenter on some of the BBC's most high profile shows, cludg On The Rerd, Panorama, Newsnight, Watchdog and BBC was elected as East Dunbartonshire MP for the SNP the general electn me out 1999, clarg: 'If my beg open about my sexualy shows kids that people like Dale Wton aren't the only role mols, then mt be que good.

'Takg part a bate Parliament on diversy public sector broadstg, he revealed the shock the BBC after they found out he had e out Nilson claimed he was rmed no one any field had been openly gay, addg the bgraphil not of Larry Grayson - of Generatn Game fame - and John Inman om Are You Beg Served? Stated they were still wag to fd love wh a said: 'When I me out as gay when I was prentg BBC Breakfast on BBC 1, which I did for a number of years, I found that I was the first mastream TV news prenter to do so.

GAY BIRMGHAM REMEMBERED

'When I told the prs office staff that I had given an terview to the Daily Mail, and that when asked about my home life I had been hont, they were aghast and told me that no BBC prenter had ever been openly gay before.

'I said: 'Perhaps news nobody has been openly gay before, but what about other fields?

LGBT+: ‘PEOPLE ED TO THK BEG GAY MEANT YOU WERE LIKE LARRY GRAYSON'

''They said that no one any field had ever been openly gay. The newly-disvered memoirs reveal much about his one lost love – Tom Proctor, who was killed the Send World War – his later clash wh gay activists at the height of his reer and his plited upbrgg. January 1995 Larry Grayson uld regularly be found at the Grosvenor Hoe Hotel wh his bt iend Noelle Grayson was one of the first televisn edians to suggt an openly gay persona.

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!

Apparently the ments ma were unpleasantly homophobic. “I didn’t realise I was gay until que late on life, ” he relled.

“When I started at Manchter Universy, I regnised I was probably gay. I realised I was gay, and knew was not a choice on my part, was jt who I was. ” He add that the perceptns of gay men had changed posively sce then.

LARRY ELR: WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH, IT’S TIME FOR ‘LET’S TAKE EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’

The public’s ia was all gay men were mp and like Larry Grayson.

He warned that there were still people om different backgrounds who would fd hard tellg their fai, however, addg: “Beg gay isn’t acceptable – and n even be life threateng. Gog back, there were real problems for gay people the anisatns.

” He also has iends who lived through the years when beg gay was agast the law and has heard of the awful ways they were treated, wh some beg told to go on a urse of “reorientatn therapy, ” a eply upsettg experience. Larry rried wh him all his life and would read to himself, pecially on Remembrance book clus photographs never seen before, found the star’s personal archive, along wh rearch obtaed om his scrapbooks that featured posters, flyers and tickets which he kept throughout his bgraphy, which draws on the star’s own words found an unfished tobgraphy, also tells of his clash wh gay activists at the height of his reer. Harry Daley, a self-ted gay man, meets the BBC producer JR Ackerley while walkg his Hammersmh beat.