Tom Robinson - Glad To Be Gay (Secret Policeman's Ball)

Recorded live at the Secret Policeman's Ball benefit concert for Amnesty International, Her Majestys Theatre, London, 30 June 1979.

The particular venom of the version, and the inclusion of the verse about Peter Wells, are due to Amnesty's refusal to support gay prisoners.

In other parts of the world, and even in the UK only 12 years earlier, people of Tom's sexuality were imprisoned.

Amnesty now actively supports the human rights of LGBT people.

Who was Peter Wells, the man to whom Tom Robinson devoted a whole verse? Imprisoned for having an 18 year old boyfriend, from his prison cell he launched a pioneering legal case that paved the way for equality. Unfortunately, he wouldn't live to see the liberty that he'd helped to win. Listen to Tom Robinson read the audiobook The Story About Peter Wells:
   • The Story About Peter Wells, audioboo...  

For more information about the song, see the Glad To Be Gay website.
http://gladtobegay.net