1981. ‘Bent’
In 1981 the play ‘Bent’ by Martin Sherman went on it’s UK tour and I was fortunate enough to see it in Nottingham. Inspired by ‘The Men with the Pink Triangles’ – the biography of gay Holocaust survivor Heinz Heger … Continue reading →
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1983. The man from China
The Contact Whilst undertaking my Social Work course at Leicester University I set up, and became contact for, the University’s Gay Society. One consequence of this was that in January 1983, whilst working as a student Probation Officer in Leicester … Continue reading →
1982. Movie: Making Love
In 1982 Twentieth Century Fox released ‘Making Love’, one of the first Hollywood movies that didn’t treat gays as sick, sad or dangerous. The film starred the hunky Harry Hamlin as an ‘out’ gay man and the equally cute Michael … Continue reading →
1980. The Red Fag Flying: Gay in the Labour Party
I was still a member of the Labour Party when I moved to Nottingham in 1980. It seemed like a good idea at the time! But any hopes of political activity were soon washed away by the mind-numbing blandness of … Continue reading →
Ready for the 80s: The Village People.
I thought I’d start this blog by letting the masters of high-camp and gay innuendo sing us out of the 70s. Ready for the 80s? Of course we weren’t – although it’s interesting to speculate whether we would have been … Continue reading →