The truth about losing Paul O'Grady

Out, camp, scathing, political, unapologetic.

(Channel 4)

When I was growing up, my mum had a gay friend who worked in retail by day and was a drag queen by night. He performed under the name Tallulah, hopping across the Pennines and back, or up and down to London, on a circuit of backstreet boozers, tatty but lively gay bars, and the kind of dives where the next turn after him would be a girl of sc…