Craig Hanlon-Smith in praise of the gay music artists who broke the stereotypes and the rules to help forge a new path. Much is said about the portrayal of gay characters on TV in the 1970s and ’80s being tokenistic, patronising or downright offensive, with John Inman’s Mr Humphries from Are You Being Served?
oft cited as an example of the worst of it. Such an assessment, though, undermines the infiltrating power of these characters.