Liberace a fag !
1960
“I think a lot of (the growing acceptance and awareness of homosexuality) was education. Indirect education, of course, it was never spoken of as being a positive thing but people on television had become to be a little more open. Not necessarily wide open but open enough - Liberace, for a start, however gay and camp, he was a great help, I think, to us. He was a very good pianist, but he was accused in the British papers of being a fag and suing the newspaper and winning the case that he was not a fag but, of course, he was a fag, he was an old fag. But I’ve had very little problems with anti-gay over the years and if I have, the bit I’ve had I’ve dealt with in my own way.”
Contributed by: Robin McGarry, 66