A Brief Timele of Disney's 17 'First Gay Characters'

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• HISTORY’S FIRST GAY COUPLETHEY LIVED, DIED AND WERE BURIED TOGETHER AS EARLY AS 2400 B.C EGYPTKAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·3 M READ·AUG 13, 2020--5SHARENIANKHKHUM AND KHNUMHOTEPSOURCE: PUBLIC DOMAWHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS DISVERED THE TOMB AT SAQQARA, EGYPT 1964, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TOMB THE NECROPOLIS WHERE A SAME-SEX UPLE WAS BURIED TOGETHER.WH MOST OF THE HISTORY GETTG LOST TRANSLATN, EGYPTOLOGISTS HAVE EXTRAPOLATED OM THE EVINCE THEIR TOMB THAT KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM ARE HISTORY’S FIRST DOCUMENTED GAY UPL. THE CLAIM OF A FIRST RERD SAME-SEX UPLE HAS MET NSIRABLE BATE ACROSS AMIANS.HIEROGLYPHS ADORNED ACROSS THE TOMB PICT THEM AS HOLDG HANDS, FACE TO FACE WH THEIR NOS TOUCHG, EMBRACG A WAY THAT PICTS A MARRIED UPLE.THE TOMB
• THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• HERE ARE SOME OF THE FIRST GAY COUPL MARRY AFTER SUPREME COURT DECISN
• THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
• 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
• AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED

HISTORY’S FIRST GAY COUPLETHEY LIVED, DIED AND WERE BURIED TOGETHER AS EARLY AS 2400 B.C EGYPTKAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·3 M READ·AUG 13, 2020--5SHARENIANKHKHUM AND KHNUMHOTEPSOURCE: PUBLIC DOMAWHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS DISVERED THE TOMB AT SAQQARA, EGYPT 1964, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TOMB THE NECROPOLIS WHERE A SAME-SEX UPLE WAS BURIED TOGETHER.WH MOST OF THE HISTORY GETTG LOST TRANSLATN, EGYPTOLOGISTS HAVE EXTRAPOLATED OM THE EVINCE THEIR TOMB THAT KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM ARE HISTORY’S FIRST DOCUMENTED GAY UPL. THE CLAIM OF A FIRST RERD SAME-SEX UPLE HAS MET NSIRABLE BATE ACROSS AMIANS.HIEROGLYPHS ADORNED ACROSS THE TOMB PICT THEM AS HOLDG HANDS, FACE TO FACE WH THEIR NOS TOUCHG, EMBRACG A WAY THAT PICTS A MARRIED UPLE.THE TOMB

This was the first and only tomb the necropolis where a same-sex uple was buried most of the history gettg lost translatn, Egyptologists have extrapolated om the evince their tomb that Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum are history’s first documented gay upl. Harry Daley, a self-ted gay man, meets the BBC producer JR Ackerley while walkg his Hammersmh beat. Ackerley, also gay, puts Daley on the rad and troduc him to his lerary iends cludg Room Wh A View thor EM Forster.

THE OLST GAYS HISTORY

The most celebrated gay man livg memory. Wh his own theatril world, Byng is openly gay but very discreet outsi . ‘Shuff’ be a regular venu around the gay scene wh an nuendo-filled act.

In 1953 he reports a theft to police, but when officers realise he is gay, they arrt him stead. Turg’s life as a gay man is reported utly by the BBC. The Wolfenn Commtee publish s Report to the laws on homosexualy and prostutn.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

The BBC ually asks psychiatrists, lawyers and clergymen to discs the ‘problem of homosexualy’.

In the aftermath of the Wolfenn Report, BBC Rad broadsts ‘The Homosexual Condn’. Wolfenn (whose son is gay), and EM Forster meet on a BBC rad programme.

Forster is the thor of Passage to India, Room Wh a View, and the ‘gay Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, Mrice.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE FIRST GAY COUPL MARRY AFTER SUPREME COURT DECISN

Wrers Marty Feldman and Barry Took e gay slang Polari the nuendo-laced Julian and Sandy sketch Round the Horne, wh leral straight-man Kenh Horne. Millns listen at Sunday lunchtim to the highly gay stereotyped characters played by Hugh Paddick and Kenh Williams. Bona = good, dolly = pretty, eke (ef) = face, lalli = legs, naff = bbish/poor, nanty = no/nothg, ogle = look/eye, omi = man, omipalone = gay man, palone = woman, riah = hair, varda = seeRound the Horne, Sunday 7 March 1965, 14.

In the Sprg of 1965, a psychologil TV drama featur a love triangle wh a gay aspect. The stud-based play is billed as ‘a smopolan London uple (Glenda Jackson and Aled Lynch) fd their outwardly charmed liv upend by a troubled homosexual iend (Nil Williamson)’.

However, after 10 long years of mpaigng to implement the Wolfenn Report, the new act is barely a victory for gay rights. It only crimalis gay sex private between men. It do not ver the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forc, do not extend to Stland or Northern Ireland, and do not equalise the discrimatory age of nsent for gay men.

THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?

Man Alive broadsts two edns weeks ahead of the Act lookg at the liv of gay men and lbians Alive: Consentg Adults: 2: The Women, BBC Two, Wednday 14 June 1967, 1970s: Breakthrough. Humphri (John Inman), Bombardier ‘Gloria’ Bemont (Melvyn Hay) and edian-host Larry Grayson reprent only one type of gay man.

Harold is pursued by a stereotyped, predatory gay man, an antiqu aler. Negative portrayals of the LGBT+ muny on televisn are wispread at this time, but radil for s day, toward the end of this episo of Steptoe and Son a gay police officer is troduced, whout all the ual stereotyped characterisatns. Tom Robson’s ‘Glad to Gay’ is released reachg 18 the Top 40 wh a week.

10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY

Intifyg as gay, Robson is unique chart mic at the time, when rerd pani expect artist to be the closet for fear of affectg sal.

‘Glad to be Gay’ is banned by Rad 1’s Top 40 show, and not performed on Top of the Pops, but John Peel ntu to play . Tom Robson later prents many mic and magaze programm across BBC Robson performs ‘Glad to be Gay’, 1978.

A play based around a rearcher's disvery of thker and early gay rights mpaigner Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) Other Si: Only Connect, Friday 18 May 1979, 21.

AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED

But Lewis is actually a life-long homosexual and when he rashly ntribut an article to a gay magaze, looks as though he may be forced to clare himself.

Meanwhile science strand Horizon broadsts Killer the Village, the first full-length -pth UK documentary on the health crisis emergg New York’s gay village known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS. Most LGBT+ performers om Freddie Mercury to Gee Michael keep their sexualy quiet as the mic dtry mands, but two new bands wh out-gay members and lyrics wh gay them break nventn wh their h but sgl Frankie Go to Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ and Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’.