Tom Robinson on Glad To Be Gay & the gay liberation struggle (interview by LGBTv, 2016)

Tom Robinson interviewed by LGBTv in Manchester during LGBTQ History Month, 2016.
He talks about his early career, the struggles of the LGBTQ movement in the 1970s and 1980s, being shunned by the BBC who refused to play his hit "Glad To Be Gay", his influence on other LGBTQ performers and the challenges he sees for LGBTQ people today.
The interview is reproduced here by kind permission of LGBTv, who retain copyright.
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I rewrote the German Wikipedia article "Gay Pride", hearing continuesly "Glad to be gay". It brought me in the right mood to write the article.