John Warburton, like Ray, features as a cameo in David Is Homosexual, at the 1976 Gay Pride event in Hyde Park. We spent a lot of time there and he grew to love it, becoming a kind of father figure to the group.” “I don’t think Wilfred would ever have joined CHE, but I was younger and more politically active. His activist fire was ignited after becoming involved in the case for the dismissal of John Warburton, the schoolteacher at London’s Holland Park comprehensive sacked for being gay in the early 70s. “We were both heavily involved with the Lewisham group,” says Ray. Because while decriminalisation was a vital landmark, it was just the start of a fight for recognition. The bluffly and arrestingly titled David Is Homosexual was made for the Lewisham branch of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE), a social and political group Ray had persuaded Wilf to join.
Ten years after meeting Ray in Soho, now living with him in Blackheath, London, Wilfred wrote and directed an educational film.
