Sinéad O’Connor asks Kenny Everett about his support for the Conservative Party, given Tory attitudes to gay rights with Clause 28.

Sinéad O’Connor interrupts an interview with British comedian Kenny Everett to ask him about his support for the Conservative Party.

She is curious to find out whether he finds Clause 28 introduced by the Conservatives in 1987 offensive. When passed into law, Clause 28 became Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988. It bans British local authorities and schools from ‘promoting homosexuality’. In her opinion it is,

A disgraceful abuse of people who, you know, are of your sexual persuasion.

Kenny Everett admits he is an à la carte Conservative. He approves of how party leader Margaret Thatcher dealt with the UK President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Arthur Scargill.

There are other things about them that I don’t like.

Kenny Everett describes Clause 28 as a curtailment of freedom. He disagrees that people in the public eye have a duty to stand up for their beliefs. Rather than taking to the streets and making demands, his way of standing up for gay rights is by being an amusing and entertaining person who just happens to be gay. This way people,

See that you are not a thing with horns and you’re not inhumane and you can be amusing, or you can sing good, and they think hey, these people are humans after all.

Kenny Everett appeared at the Conservative Party Conference in the guise of his mock-evangelical character Brother Lee Love with his trademark giant hands, purely because the Tories asked him first. This does not mean he believes in everything they stand for.

This episode of ‘The Late Late Show’ was broadcast on 3 February 1989. The presenter is Gay Byrne.

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