Is Jeremy Edwards Gay? - Gus what all people say about

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• IS JEREMY EDWARDS GAY?
• EDWARD VIII'S 'CLGY' WAYS PHED AMERIN DIVORCEE WALLIS SIMPSON TO GAY LNAIRE JIMMY DONAHUE'S ARMS

IS JEREMY EDWARDS GAY?

About this workDcriptnJimmy Edwards (1920-1988), Brish edian and ic actor, extremely popular on Brish rad and televisn the 1960s, he exemplified the ultra-mascule, motached ex-RAF type of Englishman, but was a closeted homosexual, outed the post-gay liberatn era of the 1970s (Jam Garder)Publitn/Creatn[Place of publitn not intified]: [publisher not intified], [between 1950 and 1959? Sheridan Morley looks back on changg public and police attus towards gay actors.

EDWARD VIII'S 'CLGY' WAYS PHED AMERIN DIVORCEE WALLIS SIMPSON TO GAY LNAIRE JIMMY DONAHUE'S ARMS

In the late 1970s he was uted', and was revealed to a somewhat surprised world that Jim, he of the tuba and the handlebar motache, was fact also a lifelong homosexual. As late as the 1980s, Brish public and private tolerance of homosexualy was still more than enough to reers and liv, or at least to do them nsirable damage; the televisn star Peter Wyngar and Leonard Sachs of The Good Old Days were jt two of maybe a dozen actors whose reers never really me back om urt s volvg ttagg, even though there was no qutn of the volvement of mors, or ed anyone other than nsentg adults. Ironilly, that same week, the first 'gay walkg tour' of Soho was announced, and clearly there was a double standard already tablished; suggtns of homosexualy did ltle harm, for stance, to the reers of Kenh Williams or Frankie Howerd, bee their public personae were long tablished as gay, even though they both rolutely refed to tell the tth and Williams once threatened to sue me for advertently, a theatre annual, publishg nothg more overtly 'damagg' than a picture of him on a beach Moroc wh Joe Orton and his killer Kenh Halliwell.