Attitudes to disabled gays in the 90s.
1997
Trevor, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, talked about attitudes to disabled gays in the 90s.
“A thing that made me very
angry happened about ten years ago. ‘Boyz’ magazine (a weekly scene
orientated magazine available freely in the commercial venues, paid for
by advertising) ran a feature which they called ‘Charity Fuck’, the
implications were that if you had sex with a ‘cripple’ or an old man,
you were doing it because you felt sorry for them. You wouldn’t dare
run an article like that in the straight press but they felt they
could. I wrote to them, but they got away with it. Pretty unpleasant,
but that sort of thing still exists.”
Contributed by: Trevor Sword, 50