Tom Robinson - Glad To Be Gay

Tom Robinson - Glad To Be Gay at the Amnesty International "Secret Policeman's Ball" 1979. For background see http://gladtobegay.net. Tom Robinson websites: http://tomrobinson.com and http://bothways.com

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[Tom Robinson]

If you like this video, it'd be great if you could subscribe to this YouTube channel. There are loads of other clips on here - some of my own music and some that I've shot or edited for other people. Google will let us do all kinds of extra stuff on the channel once it gets over 1,000 subscribers :-) Cheers, me dears... Tom Robinson x

[Tim Holland]

Shameless self promotion, with ideas like that the cause will keep going strong.

x

[Tom Robinson]

Definitely no shame Tim :-)

[TheKenfig]

Hey Tom, you had 'Total Recall' on Youtube at one time, one of my fav. Sector 27 tracks ; why did it go ?

[Tom Robinson]

Hello Kenfig - to the best of my recollection "Where Can We Go Tonight" was the only S27 video that I ever uploaded to this channel. We did shoot a video for "Total Recall" at the same time - also one (I think) for "Invitation". Both of these would have had the same lighting, clothes and camera angles as "Where Can We Go Tonight" and maybe somebody else uploaded "Total Recall" on their own channel and you saw that. I only ever had WCWGT uploaded here on my channel & nothing's been removed by me.

[Alex Ander]

fag

[Tom Robinson]

Thanks for sharing

[Quickstoptim]

Pioneer ... A Courageous Man

[Tom Robinson]

It was a big shock, of course. But they took it surprisingly well, considering.

[GreenerHill]

I was at the sort of school in '78 that nurtured very old-fashioned, macho "standards", but this song and that EP really DID change attitudes. No one slagged off TRB. Inspiring.

[ste52s]

I'm on board. I remember being passed a note in Maths in 1978 and it had "are you glad to be gay" written on it, I looked up and the entire class was sniggering. I didn't understand so I just sniggered as well and it took me another two years to realise the joke was on me. It's taken me another 30 years to mention it now. You must have had balls to sing this back then when it could've been commercial suicide Tom, love your music wish I had the guts to be myself.

[65undies]

same love by malcomore have you heard this, my how things have changed... with plenty of ground to take yet

[Tim Holland]

Yay!

[WilliamZeebub]

The last Gay Pride festival I went to...Steps were on stage.... and several other shite commercial bullshit processed pop stars...

[Elizabeth B]

Hi

Just want to say love this video and the song <3 . I am going to mention this song in my essay on Wolfenden and beyond haha, and I also like how it sums up nicely what i want to include in my essay hahaha.