• John Paddy Carstairs
  ...writer and painter, Mr. John Paddy Carstairs, fills a large room with his gay Mediterranean scenes...}}</ref> * ''[[Gay Love]]'' (1934)
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• Ned Sherrin
  ...ountry=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (18 February 1931&nbsp;– 1 October 2007) was an English broadcaster, author and stage director. He qualified as a [[w:barrister|bar ...e-source-of-all-pleasure-473930.html}}</ref> he was a patron of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra,<ref>{{cite news|last=Gibson|first=Owen|title=Ned Sherri
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...55]], and the book and lyrics for the musical ''[[Gay's the Word (musical)|Gay's the Word]]'' (1950, music by [[Ivor Novello]]). The musical premiered at
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• Loot (1970 film)
  | language = English ...(1969). The [[queer]] sensibility of the play – censored for blasphemy and gay references in its time – is tentatively rather than fully explored – ''
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• Jimmy Edwards
  ...Kingdom)|DFC]] (23 March 1920{{spaced ndash}}7 July 1988) was an [[England|English]] comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in [[Category:English male comedians]]
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• Mel Smith
  | spouse = {{marriage|Pamela Gay-Rees|1 May 1988}} '''Melvyn Kenneth Smith''' (3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013) was an English comedian, actor and director. Smith worked on the [[sketch comedy]] shows '
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• Not On Your Nellie
  ...being assaulted in the line of duty; George (David Raynor), an effeminate gay man who runs a nearby fashion boutique; and Gilbert (Roger Howlett), his fl ...he Nellie Pledge character. Bottomley and Brennand were two of the regular writers for ''Nearest and Dearest'', but were not the series creators ("Nearest" wa
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• Graham Chapman
  ...openly homosexual and a supporter of [[LGBT rights by country or territory|gay rights]], and was in a [[Domestic partnership|long-term partnership]] with ...size Park]] in 1968,{{sfn|McCabe|2005|p=84}} and the pair enjoyed visiting gay clubs in Central London.{{sfn|McCabe|2005|p=85}} In the early 1970s, after
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• Round the Horne main characters
  The persona adopted by the writers for Horne was not greatly different from his real-life one,{{sfn|Massingber ...end.{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=2, 5, 10 and 13}} As the show developed, the writers gave him more to do. In the second series Smith continually interrupts the
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• The Queen of Spain's Beard
  ...also deals with taboos surrounding [[premarital sex]], [[LGBT stereotypes|gay stereotypes]] and the practice of [[child marriage]]. ...der |series-link=The Black Adder |credits=Rowan Atkinson & Richard Curtis (writers) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=6 July 1983 |series-no=1 |numb
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• George Sanders
  ...ctor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth, bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but ...er]], in one of his first leads, as the hero; Sanders' smooth, upper-class English accent, his sleek manner, and his suave, superior, and somewhat threatening
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ===Going for an English=== One of the best known sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few [[lassi]]s. They continually mispronounce the waiter's name, o
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  '''George Grossmith Jr.''' (11 May 1874 – 6 June 1935) was an English actor, theatre producer and [[Actor-manager|manager]], director, playwright ...was not successful, but he wrote another (also unsuccessful piece), ''The Gay Pretenders'' (1900), in which he included roles for both himself and his fa
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• Camp (style)
  ...name="MallaMcGillis2005" /> The visual style is closely associated with [[gay culture]]. ...ay 1870, p. 13, 'The Men in Women's Clothes'</ref> In 1909, the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' gave the first print citation of ''camp'' as
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• Victor Spinetti
  ...ramme ''[[Harry and the Wrinklies]]'', which also starred [[Nick Robinson (English actor)|Nick Robinson]] in the title role. [[Category:Welsh gay actors]]
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• The Navy Lark
  | language = English ...[[Herbert Wilcox|Herbert Wilcox]] refused to employ Price "because he was gay." Pertwee was among those who objected to Price not being in the film and b
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• Jonathan Miller
  ...Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English [[w:Theatre director|theatre and opera director]], actor, author, televisio ...bourne]], followed by a new production of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' for [[English National Opera]] in 1978. Miller's other turns as an opera director include
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• Desmond's
  | language = English ...first friend that Sean made at university on his first day. He was openly gay.
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• Kenny Everett
  ...Maurice James Christopher Cole'''; 25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio disc jockey and television presenter. After spells on [[w:p ...ade it illegal for councils to promote [[LGBT rights in the United Kingdom|gay rights and issues]]. He was diagnosed with [[HIV]] in 1989 and died in 1995
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• Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)
  ...ember 1914&nbsp;– 27 October 1988), known as '''Charles Hawtrey''', was an English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director. ...David Meeker ''Jazz on the Screen''</ref> a musical mystery written by the English author George Cooper and starring [[George Moon]]. Around the same time, Ha
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