I'm now married with kids, but Glad to Be Gay was about anyone who didn't conform, from lesbians to transgenders, a way of recognising that most of us have complex sexualities. I never imagined that, 35 years later, it would be called the gay national anthem, or that we'd have openly gay pop stars and a Tory prime minister campaigning for gay marriage. I received a letter from a US teenager who had been disowned by his Christian parents. He'd just taken an overdose when Glad to Be Gay came on his college radio station. He put his fingers down his throat, threw up, and moved to San Franscisco, where he was now living happily. It would have been worth writing the song for him alone.
Tom Robinson talks to Dave Simpson in The Guardian
about writing the much misunderstood Glad To Be Gay.
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Tom's website. Lots of anniversary stuff going on.
Suggested title for Tom's next compilation LP...
Now That's What I Call... Worthy (But Boring).
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