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  • | music = [[Noel Gay]] ...of the [[The Blitz|Blitz]]. The leads are a couple of out of work variety entertainers who use great ingenuity in their efforts to get financial assistance to "pu
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  • ...Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref> A group of [[ENSA]] entertainers with the British army in the North Africa desert during the Second World Wa * [[Dora Bryan]] as Gay Bennett
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  • ...cotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/actor-stanley-baxter-comes-out-gay-new-book-lifting-lid-his-troubled-private-life-3020919 |author=Brian Fergus ...him to relent.<ref name="Scotsman 2020-10-30"/> Moira accepted that he was gay and allowed him to bring men home for sex,<ref name="Scotsman 2020-10-30"/>
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  • ...].{{cn|date=March 2022}} In the 1960s, he was among Britain's highest-paid entertainers. In the 1970s, he owned the Swan, a noted inn at [[Streatley, Berkshire|Str [[Category:Gay entertainers]]
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  • ...ot help their cause. Inman said: "They thought I was over exaggerating the gay character. But I don't think I do. In fact there are people far more camp t ...The series also became popular in the United States, where Inman became a gay cultural icon.<ref name="Telegraph"/> Once, in San Francisco, a passing cyc
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  • ...son+bbc+radio&pg=PA276|title=The Daily Telegraph Third Book of Obituaries: Entertainers|first=Group Limited|last=Telegraph|date=1 June 1998|publisher=Pan|isbn=9780 * ''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]'' (1966) – Gay Man in Pub (uncredited)
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  • ...|url=http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/history/brambell.htm|title=Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month UK|publisher=Lgbthistorymonth|access-dat [[Category:Irish gay actors]]
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  • ...], [[sex worker]]s, and the [[Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures|gay subculture]]. There is some debate about its origins,<ref>{{cite web|author ...nown words.<ref>Baker, Paul (2002) Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang. London: Continuum {{ISBN|0-8264-5961-7}}</ref> According to a [[Chan
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  • ...front-of-cloth variety turn", he was one of the United Kingdom's foremost entertainers during the [[w:Second World War|Second World War]].<ref name="sweet">{{cite ...he time of the [[Second World War]], Trinder was one of Britain's foremost entertainers and regularly appeared in his own shows at the London Palladium.<ref name="
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  • [[Category:Welsh gay actors]] [[Category:British gay writers]]
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  • ...s—particularly [[Charlie Drake]] and [[Norman Wisdom]]—and, culturally, on entertainers such as [[the Beatles]], who referred to him in their music. Since his deat ...ere unethical, and cited a 1667 law which made it illegal. With 60 leading entertainers already avoiding Sunday working, Dean informed Formby that his stance would
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  • ...ten '''''Hi de Hi'''''. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's entertainers, most of whom were struggling actors and has-beens.<ref name="auto">{{cite The other main characters in the show are out-of-work actors, actresses and entertainers at the tail end of their careers. These include Fred Quilley, a disqualifie
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  • * '''Arthur Atkinson''' (Whitehouse), parody of 1940s music hall entertainers such as [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]] and [[Arthur Askey]], introduc ...d and even frightened in two episodes; one when they get a customer who is gay, and another with a customer (Day) who is as willing to talk about sexual d
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