Glad To Be Gay Lyrics

The British Police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
About pretty policemen in leather and jeans
Showing their leg through a split in the seams
Leering at people and leading them on
Then running them in when they start to respond
The press all ignore it, they don't want to see
Except when the case is... a Tory MP

Pictures of naked young women are best
In the News of the Screws and the popular press
They plaster their pages with bingo and tits
Then add all the scandal and slander that fits
The women at Greenham they smeared and despised
They crucified Elton with gossip and lies
If it's paedophile teachers or lesbian nuns
If it's filth and it's fiction... it's there in the Sun

Have you heard the story about Peter Wells
Who one day was arrested and dragged to the cells
For being in love with a man of 18
The vicar found out they'd been having a scene
The magistrate sent him for trial by the Crown
He even appealed, but they still sent him down
He was only mistreated a couple of years
Cos even in prison they look after the queers

A sense of proportion is where we begin
We're fighting a virus, not punishing sin
The medical facts are ignored or forgot
By the bigots who think it's the Judgement of God
The medics are baffled and caught on the run
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While government funding is worse than a joke
Cos saving our lives doesn't win any votes

Now enemies everywhere laugh at the sight
Of gay against lesbian, dyke against dyke
I don't give a toss about who's in the wrong
The ins and the outs - or the faults in this song
We're getting oppressed and arrested and banned
While we bicker politically where we should stand
Forget the aggression from everywhere else
We still do a wonderful job oppressing ourselves

So sit back and watch as they seize all our books
And treat us like lepers and sinners and crooks
Just hope you don't get caught up in the raids
Or pick up a pig or a partner with AIDS
Lie to your workmates & lie to your folks
Put down the clones and tell lesbian jokes
Forget the aggression from everywhere else
While we still do a wonderful job
Oppressing ourselves so try and (SING IF...etc)

With friends and supporteers from over the land
We're gathered together and making a stand
To fight for the right for a home and a job
And to walk without fear of a kick in the gob
Slagged in the media, bashed by the bill
With cheap politicians all making a kill
We're lesbian women, we're men who are gay
We're here and we're human and won't go away

(Source: TomRobinson.com)