2012 is the year of the London Olympics. It’s also the 30th anniversary of the world’s first ‘Gay Olympic Games’ being struck down. In 1982 the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sought an injunction against the United States Gay Olympic … Continue reading →
OK, the full title should be “‘Screaming’,from the movie ‘Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts’”, but you try getting that into a readable title! Anyway, ‘Framed Youth’ was produced in 1982 by the London Lesbian and Gay Youth Video … Continue reading →
Don’t ask me why it started, but by the beginning of the 80’s ‘the clone’ was beginning to become a universal phenomenon (and I don’t mean Dolly the sheep!). Some commentators suggest the first clones appeared in San Francisco’s Castro … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →