Videos
Tom Robinson Band’s first TV appearance, still unsigned and largely unknown. Janet Street-Porter’s lunchtime London Weekend Show, mid 1977.
Tony Wilson rarely managed to combine his twin careers of local TV news presenter and music impresario. However, having commandeered Granada Reports’ Friday evening ‘what’s on’ slot and changed it from a rundown of Lancashire jumble sales to a platform for punk, he was given his own TV show, So It Goes.
They filmed TRB doing this magnificently caustic Glad To Be Gay live in Manchester, and broadcast it on 6 November 1977.
Live at the Secret Policeman’s Ball benefit concert for Amnesty International, 30 June 1979.
For more information about this performance, see its page
Performing the song, preceded by the ‘outed by the tabloids’ anecdote, at legendary 90s gay indie and queercore night Club V, London, 11th July 1998
Audience footage of a 2007 London performance with the original 1978 lyrics
Performing it preceded by the Alex Harvey anecdote at Aural Assault, David Hoyle’s series of queer music shows, London, 17 September 2009.
A fictionalised version of Tom Robinson features in the 1981 Gay Pride scene of BBC time-travel cop show Ashes To Ashes, 2008. After participating in the march in TRB T-shirt, he leads arrestees in singing Glad To Be Gay in the cells.
Glad Not To Be Gay. Debatable politics and negligible humour in this 1992 Spitting Image song with puppets of Jason Donovan and Philip Schofield.
