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MI5 warned actor Dick Bogarde he could be targeted by KGB for being gay

Newly declassified MI5 files have revealed that film star Dirk Bogarde had been warned by security services that the KGB had identified him as a “practising homosexual” and he could face being compromised in a sting operation. The files show that his name appeared on a list of six British gay men given to the Russians by a source who had himself been blackmailed during a visit to Moscow in the late 1950s. The document goes on to describe the actor as “clearly disturbed” by the news.Bogarde never publicly came out but lived with his manager and life partner Anthony Forwood.
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US History Notorious anti-LGBTQ+ campaigner Anita Bryant passes away
Anita Bryant, a notorious anti-LGBTQ+ rights campaigner in the United States, has passed away aged 84. Also a Grammy-nominated singer, her family confirmed that she died from cancer at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma on December 16, 2024.
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