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I’ve wanted to go to Pride events in London but they don’t often mention accessibility”, says Emma, who is a wheelchair user living in a very rural village. “It’s like you have to find a subgroup of queer disabled spaces, instead of being included in what’s meant to be an inclusive community.” Dani is very incisive on this matter: “If the demand is there, there is no reason why we can’t meet that demand and support people”.
Although Daffyd's family are perfectly fine and accepting of their sons homosexuality, even they are not immune from Daffyd's delusions or his biased and hypocritical opinions. Alongside almost everybody he meets, they to have been insulted/bullied by him. Examples include:-Eddie, who chose to relocate from London to the countryside with his husband, has found little difference in the quality of life between the city or countryside. “We chose to leave London because it was so expensive and was giving me a lot of anxiety, but it feels like the countryside is only nice if you’re white and straight. My husband and I lived in Wiltshire for a while and people would legitimately stare at us whilst we were out and about.” What makes this particularly hilarious is that around the same time the Navy was allowing a group representing certain facets of gay culture to sing aboard a Navy frigate about the navy being a place “Where you can find pleasure…”- with original intent to use this music video in Navy recruitment ad campaigns- they were spending millions of dollars attempting to route out any gay people from their ranks… These efforts included a hilariously inept search for a woman named Dorothy, who they were convinced knew every gay person in the military.
From the start I have been keen that Not A Phase is not just a charity for London people. Dani St James, Not A Phase founder According to Morali’s business partner, Henri Belolo, the look of the Village People was inspired by an experience he and Morali had in a Greenwich gay bar, Les Mouches, which was having something of a costume ball. Specifically Belolo would recall in an interview with disco-disco.com that, As to how the now iconic moves that go with the chorus of the song came about, the band members themselves have mildly differing stories as to the origin, though in all cases it would seem it was an audience inspired set of moves, rather than originally planned. For example, Randy Jones states,
Comedian and actor Matt Lucas has spoken out about his controversial Little Britain character Dafydd Thomas, better known as ‘the only gay in the village’.
