“TANK TOPPED BUM BOY”

<p><strong><em>Friday 22nd November 1963</em></strong> - President Kennedy has been assassinated. I hope it wasn’t a Russian that did it or there’ll be a war. </p><p><strong><em>Friday 14th December 1973</em></strong> - Miners on strike, train drivers on go-slow and no coal or oil. Going to be a three day working week and TV is going off at 10.30 every night. What a state this country is in. </p><p><strong><em>Tuesday 18th February 1975</em></strong> - Dinner at the vicarage. There were gay vicars, gay Catholic priests and one extremely camp Rural Dean </p><p><strong><em>Thursday 18th December 1986</em></strong> - A Conservative MP has called for the extermination of all ‘queers’ in gas chambers. Ninety percent to be killed and ten percent to see psychiatrists. </p><p><strong>Sunday 18th September 1994</strong> - The fire door opened and two naked queens tumbled into the streets of Peckham. </p><p><strong><em>Wednesday 22nd July 1998</em></strong> - A vote in The House Of Lords on the equal age of consent for gays. They voted against it and talked of ‘legalised buggery’. There wasn’t a word about love! </p><p><strong><em>Sunday 30th March 2014</em></strong> - An historic day. First gay marriage! And in so many parts of the world to be gay means imprisonment or the death penalty. </p><p><strong><em>Tuesday 3rd July 2018</em></strong> - Maybe she should now get rid of the bigots in her party, one of whom reportedly referred to a gay minister as a <em>Tank-Topped Bum Boy.</em></p>