In an interview with Simon Edge of The Independent published on 17 December 1996, the Liberal agent in the by-election, Andy Ellis, was asked whether he approved of the activity undertaken by the Liberal Gay Action Group, and replied " Nothing went on in Bermondsey that we were unhappy with ".

Although most were released under her own name, she was renamed Gay Ellis ( for sentimental numbers ) and Dot Dare or Patsy Young ( for her Helen Kane impersonations ).

* The lambda was selected as a symbol by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970, and declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1974.

On June 28, 1970, the first Gay Pride marches took place in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York commemorating the anniversary of the riots.

Christopher Street Liberation Day on June 28, 1970 marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with an assembly on Christopher Street and the first Gay Pride march in U. S. history, covering the 51 blocks to Central Park.

One day earlier, on Saturday, 27 June 1970, Chicago Gay Liberation organized a march from Washington Square Park (" Bughouse Square ") to the Water Tower at the intersection of Michigan and Chicago avenues, which was the route originally planned, and then many of the participants extemporaneously marched on to the Civic Center ( now Richard J. Daley ) Plaza.

New York City's Gay Pride March began in 1970.

( 1956 ), Nicolaus Silver ( 1961 ), Gay Trip ( 1970 ), Rag Trade ( 1976 ))

The lambda symbol was originally adopted by Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970 after they broke away from the larger Gay Liberation Front.

The university was the first state-university to officially recognize the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allied Union ( 1970 ).

According to Barney Frank's book The Story of America's Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman by Stuart E. Weisberg, In the election of 1970, against Kevin White, White was the first mayor to declare the city had a race problem and that people did not want him to become governor and keep him as mayor.

On June 28, 1970 the Christopher Street Liberation Day marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with an assembly on Christopher Street and the first Gay Pride Parade in United States history.

The Gay Activists Alliance was most active from 1970 to 1974.

Amongst Gay News's early " Special Friends " were Graham Chapman of Monty Python's Flying Circus, his partner David Sherlock, and Antony Grey, secretary of the UK Homosexual Law Reform Society from 1962 to 1970.

After the Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969, the Gay Liberation Front spread from the United States to London in 1970.

In 1970, she was a founder member of the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) in London.

Michael Bronski, the editor of an anthology of gay pulp writing, notes in his introduction, " Gay pulp is not an exact term, and it is used somewhat loosely to refer to a variety of books that had very different origins and markets " People often use the term to refer to the " classic " gay pulps that were produced before about 1970, but it may also be used to refer to the gay erotica or pornography in paperback book or digest magazine form produced since that date.

translated from the German by Jean Steinberg ; With an Introduction by Peter Gay, New York, Praeger 1970.

After the 1970 album Heavy Petting, Dr. Strangely Strange began falling apart: Linus was asked to leave to cut down on touring costs after some early sessions for the record, Goulding left to enter to a Buddhist monastery, while Pawle and Booth teamed with Gay and Terry Woods for a brief tour.

As a jockey Pat Taaffe ( 1930 – 92 ) rode two winners of the English Grand National Quare Times in 1955 and Gay Trip in 1970 and was Irish National Hunt champion six times. Star Appeal ( winner of the Prix de L ’ Arc de Triomphe, 1975 ) was bred in Baronrath.

* The Gay Deceivers ( 1970 )

In the social sciences and science Norton has published best-selling books by such authors as Mary Roach, economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, physicist Richard Feynman, and historians Peter Gay, Jonathan Spence, Eric Foner, Christopher Lasch, and George F. Kennan.

Gay and lesbian science fiction have at times been grouped as distinct subgenres of SF, and have some tradition of separate publishers and awards.

Gay genre films remain rare, and science fiction films ' inclusion of gay characters continues to relegate them to supporting roles, such as the " stereotypical, limp-wristed, frantic homosexual " minor character in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, a film whose main theme has been described as being the anxiety surrounding male friendships and homosexual panic.

Gay worked as political science professor at Columbia between 1948 – 1955 and as history professor from 1955-1969.

In 2005 he was awarded The Sylvia Rivera Award for Transgender Studies by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies for the monograph ‘ Respect and Equality .’ In 2007, along with his co-editor, Susan Stryker, he was awarded a Lambda Literary Award for their annotated collection of 50 key historical and contemporary transgender science, political and theory texts ; ' The Transgender Studies Reader '.

As Adorno writes in the Dedication, the " sorrowful science " ( a pun on Nietzsche's The Gay Science ) with which the book is concerned is " the teaching of the good life ", a central theme of both the Greek and Hebrew sources of Western philosophy.

Gay pulp and gay science fiction are genres of gay fiction that represent some of the earliest incorporation of this " taboo " subject in contemporary literature.

It is credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with being the first publication in the world to use the term HIV, ( the second being the international science journal Nature ), with the first regular column on AIDS in the world being written in Capital Gay by Julian Meldrum in 1982.

* Gay male pulp fiction

The historical fiction novel Wine of Satan ( 1949 ) written by Laverne Gay gives an embellished accounting of the life of Bohemond.

Category: Gay fiction

Arlen's claim to fame in the world of crime fiction rests on one short story, " Gay Falcon " ( 1940 ), in which he introduced gentleman sleuth Gay Stanhope Falcon.

* Gay male pulp fiction

Gay authors, characters and themes are present in all genres of literature, but the increasing amount of gay fiction emerging in recent years has established several ( if unofficial ) subgenres, including gay mystery, horror and romance, as well as gay teen.

Gay pulp fiction or gay pulps, refers to printed works, primarily fiction, that include references to male homosexuality, specifically male gay sex, and that are cheaply produced, typically in paperback books made of wood pulp paper ; lesbian pulp fiction is similar work about women.

Holleran teaches creative writing at American University in Washington, DC, and he continues to publish short fiction in gay short story collections like M2M: New Literary Fiction and frequently publishes articles in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

Comedian and television presenter Bob Saget, a board member of the SRF, directed the 1996 ABC TV movie For Hope, starring Dana Delany, which depicts a young woman fatally affected by scleroderma ; the film was based on the experiences of Saget's sister Gay.

" Gay characters had been portrayed before on television, and at the time the popular sitcom Will & Grace was on the air.

'" In a 2006 study conducted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, it was determined that nine of the 679 lead and supporting characters on scripted broadcast television were gay or lesbian, but Smithers was not included.

The most recent film version was a television broadcast in 1987, directed by Stan Lathan and adapted by John Gay.

When his autobiography was reprinted in 1975 after the success of the television version of The Naked Civil Servant, Gay News commented that the book should have been published posthumously ( Crisp commented that this was a polite way of them telling him to drop dead ).

* The Meaning of Life ( TV series ), Irish television series presented by Gay Byrne

In May 2009, Ryan Tubridy was appointed by RTÉ to succeed Pat Kenny as host of the television station's long-running chat show The Late Late Show, whose first host ( and producer ) was Gay Byrne until Kenny took over in 1999.

Thompson was also the host of a reality television program in Canada called My Fabulous Gay Wedding.

Comedy Central hosted a satirical television series called Straight Plan for the Gay Man, which featured four heterosexual men teaching gay men how to be more ( stereotypically ) straight, redecorating their homes with neon beer signs and teaching them about sports.

Though most of his work has been in film and television, it also includes stage performances ; most notably as Louis Ironson in Declan Donnellan's 1992 and 1993 Royal National Theatre London premières of Parts One ( Millennium Approaches ) and Two ( Perestroika ) of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and as Ben, one of two hitmen, playing opposite Lee Evans as Gus, in Harry Burton's 2007 critically acclaimed 50th-anniversary revival of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's 1957 two-hander The Dumb Waiter at Trafalgar Studios.

Straight Plan for the Gay Man is an American comedy television series that premiered on February 23, 2004, on Comedy Central.

It now forms a part of the Noel Gay Organisation which includes divisions for television and theatre and is a significant British showbusiness agency, under the day-to-day control of his family.

Its features section has included, among others, television reporters Verne Gay and Diane Werts, reality TV columnist Frank Lovece, and film critics Rafer Guzman and Jan Stuart.

Gay and gay-friendly Star Trek fans initiated a letter writing campaign to pressure the television franchise to address how the utopian society dealt with sexual orientation and gender identity.

After several decades in relative obscurity Nugent began appearing in ‘ Gay Nineties ’ shows in the 1940s and, with her nostalgic appeal and lively presence, she enjoyed a brief vogue as a television personality in the 1950s.

The 1960 " Miss Darling Downs " was Gay Kayler, a multiple beauty quest title holder, television personality, award-winning country music entertainer and recording artist.

* 1969-a television mini-series starring John Carson as Paul Dombey and Derek Seaton as Walter Gay

* 1983-a television mini-series starring Julian Glover as Paul Dombey and Max Gold as Walter Gay

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called it " a shining example of how to bring intelligent, fair and funny representations of our community onto television " and awarded it the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV-Individual Episode.

An episode of television sitcom Will & Grace revolved around Jack McFarland's fear of the Gay Mafia, with singer Elton John as its boss.

According to the publications Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture and Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights, it was the controversial lesbian outing of the main character ( played by Ellen DeGeneres ) in the sitcom Ellen in 1997 that paved the way for Patty's coming-out in this episode, as well as for many other gay characters on other television shows.

Skinner was portrayed by Bethel Leslie in the short-lived 1950 television series The Girls based upon Our Hearts Were Young and Gay.

* " Gay Shows " features clips from LGBT-related television shows such as RuPaul's Drag Race.

According to the publications Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture and Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights, it was the controversial lesbian outing of the main character ( played by Ellen DeGeneres ) in the sitcom Ellen in 1997 that paved the way for Patty's coming-out in " There's Something About Marrying ", as well as for many other gay characters on other television shows.