Tom Robinson - Glad To Be Gay

[ccharles000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lR3ffBsMTc&feature=channel_page

this is a great song

[NorthernSpy]

1. I've heard of this guy!

It seems he's now married -- to a woman, oddly enough. They've got kids.

[imdjh]

2. it's still done

There are still many gay people, men in particular but also women who get married to an opposite. Many of them are quite open about it, I've met a lot of couples like this. It's a bit hard to understand sometimes. I had a deal, of the those "best friends forever" deals with a female friend in college that should we get to be 40 and both of us were single then we would get married. We didn't do it, but it was a sweet promise. We also fooled around with each other at 20, laughing too much to really do anything.

[orleans]

3. i just read this to my best friend -- we're talking now on the phone

and he said: "omg--did you post that?"

i said: "no" and laughed

he said: "you've got to tell him that the exact same thing happened to us."

so--the exact same thing happened to us. pretty much. for the most part.

[qb]

4. After 11 years of closeted married life and two years of being out I was asked by my therapist

"Are you glad you turned out gay?"
I replied "YES!"
Thanks for posting this.

Lyrics:

Glad To Be Gay

The British Police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all
Lining the customers up by the wall
Picking out people and knocking them down
Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground
Searching their houses and calling them queer
I don't believe that sort of thing happens here

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

Pictures of naked young women are fun
In Titbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun
There's no nudes in Gay News our last magazine
But they still find excuses to call it obscene
Read how disgusting we are in the press
The News of The World and the Sunday Express
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth
It's there in the paper, it must be the truth

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

Don't try to kid us that if you're discreet
You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street
You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks
To get beaten unconscious and left in the dark
I had a friend who was gentle and short
Got lonely one evening and went for a walk
Queerbashers caught him and kicked in his teeth
He was only hospitalised for a week

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

So sit back and watch as they close all our clubs
Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs
Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21
So only your friends and your brothers get done
Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks
Put down the queens and tell anti-queer jokes
Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter
'The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?'

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

http://gayinfo.tripod.com/gladtobegay.html

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Brings back great memories...

thanks for the reminder. I had this song on an EP...Secret Policeman's Other Ball, I think...