PETER Kay joed the aln of celebri and entertaers publicly backg LGBTQ people amid a growg global mpaign highlightg human rights and anti-Gay ab Qatar amid the World Cup, Polile n exclively reveal. Before his lnch at the AO Arena Manchter last night, our sir snapped the stage displayed proment rabow msag wh
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- PETER GAY LIVE: PETER KAY SUPPORTS LGBTQ OVER QATAR ON STAGE AT SELL-OUT EBACK TOUR – EXCLUSIVE
- PETER GAY OBUARY
PETER GAY LIVE: PETER KAY SUPPORTS LGBTQ OVER QATAR ON STAGE AT SELL-OUT EBACK TOUR – EXCLUSIVE
PETER Kay joed the aln of celebri and entertaers publicly backg LGBTQ people amid a growg global mpaign highlightg human rights and anti-Gay ab Qatar amid the World Cup, Polile n exclively reveal. Before his lnch at the AO Arena Manchter last night, our sir snapped the stage displayed proment rabow msag wh the words “Peter Gay Live” – showg a funny, simple and effective sign of solidary among Wtern eedom lovg entertaers and natns phg for change on the issue of LGBTQ rights. He’s joed the lik of Dua Lipa, edian Joe Lycett and England player Conor Coady who have publicly stood up agast homophobia and anti-gay laws Qatar – who are hostg the World Cup.
Kay, who was later moved to tears as he was given a standg ovatn at the start of his first tour for 12 years ma his first major statement on polics, as more stars and celebri start to e their platforms and power to fight for those still not given the eedom to be gay or love who they love Middle Eastern, predomantly Mlim untri. On this ocsn, he was ught on webse, an onle datg se for gay men. Peter Gay, who has died aged 91, was one of Ameri’s leadg historians, known particularly for his work on morn European cultural and tellectual history.
PETER GAY OBUARY
The first volume, subtled The Rise of Morn Paganism, was wily acclaimed far beyond the amic world, and won the Natnal Book award the first volume, subtled The Rise of Morn Pagansim, of Peter Gay’s massive study, was wily acclaimed far beyond the amic world In his encyclopedic The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Frd (five volum between 1984 and 1998), Gay explored wonrfully readable prose a wi range of aspects of the European – pecially the Brish, French and German – and the North Amerin middle class their heyday. But taken together, they are a fundamental text for anyone who wish to unrstand bourgeois culture the 19th and early 20th was, sentially, the culture to which Gay was born, Berl, as Peter Joachim Fröhlich, the son of Helga and Morz, a small bsman of left-leang views and liberal habs of md. Ined, Peter led a charmed life, beg admted to a grammar school unr the Nazis bee his father was a rated and war-wound army veteran and survivg the early years of the Third Reich whout any great difficulty as a blond, blue-eyed boy who did not nform to the Nazi image of a Jewish person any his engrossg memoir, My German Qutn: Growg up Nazi Berl (1998), Gay nfsed that he enuntered antisemism personally only on the very rart of ocsns: once, when, unually, a teacher clared that “Jews always exaggerate” (a remark to which he attributed his later ncern for precisn his historil wrgs), and 1936 when the fay went by r on a tour of Germany and enuntered a notice outsi a village sayg: “Jews are not wanted here.
It means happy, jolly or gay, and they chose the last of the three nam, only for Peter to start receivg hate-mail years later, as the rise of the gay liberatn movement ma homophob thk his surname was a polil studied at the Universy of Colorado, Denver, then took a master’s gree at Columbia Universy, New York, 1947, and a doctorate polil science four years later, on the leadg “revisnist” social mocrat of the Kaiser’s Germany, Eduard Bernste, wh whose views he to a large extent intified.