crusty_bint wrote:I wonder how many folk outside the gay community at the time of the sketch would have known of Polari? HH?
In Clydebank, ffs? We did'nt get Gay folk till colour came in. My first contact happened in 1969, in the Cleddans bar (across from the Tech) where I was approached in the toilets by a gentleman in his early thirties, who asked if I wished to embark on a sexual adventure with him (or words to that effect) I replied that no, I was not that way inclined, he said that I was, whether i knew it or not. Anyway we had a wee pleasent chat and went our seperate ways. It struck me as strange how 'normal' he seemed (as opposed to Kenneth Williams) I wonder if that was for reasons of survival in that time & place? As an aside, later that day someone stole my y-fronts from the Turkish Baths in Hall St. Prolly just an urchin though.