In direct terms, not so much. One play A Season in Hell tackled this issue head on.
Indirectly? Incalculable. But hugely significant.
Incalculable in part because I'm not sure of everyone who was LGBTI and who wasn't. But some I know for sure were:
* Alan Burke - director of many early TV plays, author of Lola Montez.
*Gordon Chater
*Laurence Collinson
* Barry Creyton - actor in The Merchant of Venice;
*George Landen Dann
* Sumner Locke Elliot - author of The Grey Nurse Said Nothing and the original play of Rusty Bugles.
* Brian James - perhaps the busiest actor of the time.
* Peter Kenna - author of The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day;
*Michael Plant
* Hal Porter - author of The Tower;
*Thelma Scott
* Alan Seymour - adapter of several texts such as Bodgie, writer of The One Day of the Year;
*Frank Thring
Some I am pretty sure were:
* Patricia Hooker - author of Concorde of Sweet Sounds, A Season in Hell;
*Ric Hutton
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