Latest / PRIDE Daily / Groundbreaking gay British artist David Hockney has died
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- 0:00Speaker 1: A Cast recommends, and now we're sitting on the sidelines
- 0:05Speaker 1: watching a team win the World Cup.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Makes your World Cup winner. Then you're speaking to a
- 0:09Speaker 2: five time World Cup winner, So put some respect. Put
- 0:13Speaker 2: some respect on my name. I won five five World
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- 0:41Speaker 5: Now, Pride Daily. Hi again, I'm keV mcgral with a
- 0:50Speaker 5: quick extra episode. David Hockney, the groundbreaking gay British artists,
- 0:55Speaker 5: has died at the age of eighty eight. His early
- 0:57Speaker 5: works explored themes of gay life and love back when
- 1:01Speaker 5: homosexuality was illegal in the UK wasn't decriminalized till nineteen
- 1:06Speaker 5: sixty seven, but he came out about seven years earlier,
- 1:09Speaker 5: having left Bradford in northern England for the more bohemian London.
- 1:15Speaker 6: I went to London when I was twenty two and
- 1:19Speaker 6: that was it. That was it, and I remember I
- 1:22Speaker 6: just came out by because somebody was saying, well, I
- 1:25Speaker 6: saw you in a pub with somebody and sorted going on.
- 1:28Speaker 6: I said, too bad for you then, and I.
- 1:31Speaker 5: Just thought, well, thanks to Extra magazine, David criticized the
- 1:36Speaker 5: nineteen eighties government of Margaret Thatcher for being anti LGBTQ
- 1:41Speaker 5: PLOSS and campaigned against Clause twenty eight Don't Say gay
- 1:46Speaker 5: law forced upon British schools. The artist's longtime partner, Jean
- 1:50Speaker 5: Pierre gon Salves Delima, was by side when he died.
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