"TANK-TOPPED BUM BOY"
A gay man's diaries spanning six decades
Published on 28. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
1024 pages
978-1-80634-326-3 (ISBN)
Description
Friday 22nd November 1963 - President Kennedy has been assassinated. I hope it wasn't a Russian that did it or there'll be a war.
Friday 14th December 1973 - Miners on strike, train drivers on go-slow and no coal or oil. Going to be a three day working week and TV is going off at 10.30 every night. What a state this country is in.
Tuesday 18th February 1975 - Dinner at the vicarage. There were gay vicars, gay Catholic priests and one extremely camp Rural Dean
Thursday 18th December 1986 - A Conservative MP has called for the extermination of all 'queers' in gas chambers. Ninety percent to be killed and ten percent to see psychiatrists.
Sunday 18th September 1994 - The fire door opened and two naked queens tumbled into the streets of Peckham.
Wednesday 22nd July 1998 - A vote in The House Of Lords on the equal age of consent for gays. They voted against it and talked of 'legalised buggery'. There wasn't a word about love!
Sunday 30th March 2014 - An historic day. First gay marriage! And in so many parts of the world to be gay means imprisonment or the death penalty.
Tuesday 3rd July 2018 - Maybe she should now get rid of the bigots in her party, one of whom reportedly referred to a gay minister as a Tank-Topped Bum Boy.
Friday 14th December 1973 - Miners on strike, train drivers on go-slow and no coal or oil. Going to be a three day working week and TV is going off at 10.30 every night. What a state this country is in.
Tuesday 18th February 1975 - Dinner at the vicarage. There were gay vicars, gay Catholic priests and one extremely camp Rural Dean
Thursday 18th December 1986 - A Conservative MP has called for the extermination of all 'queers' in gas chambers. Ninety percent to be killed and ten percent to see psychiatrists.
Sunday 18th September 1994 - The fire door opened and two naked queens tumbled into the streets of Peckham.
Wednesday 22nd July 1998 - A vote in The House Of Lords on the equal age of consent for gays. They voted against it and talked of 'legalised buggery'. There wasn't a word about love!
Sunday 30th March 2014 - An historic day. First gay marriage! And in so many parts of the world to be gay means imprisonment or the death penalty.
Tuesday 3rd July 2018 - Maybe she should now get rid of the bigots in her party, one of whom reportedly referred to a gay minister as a Tank-Topped Bum Boy.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Market Harborough
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 62 mm
Weight
936 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80634-326-3 (9781806343263)
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Person
Denis Bond trained as an actor at The Rose Bruford College. He has worked in rep theatre, in the West End and has also appeared in many TV programmes. He has published over fifty books and has written numerous scripts for Children's TV and radio.