LGBT social movements and gays. Veteran activists such as Sylvia Rivera and Beth Elliot were sidelined or expelled because they were transgender. In 1974, Maureen Colquhoun came out as the first Lesbian MP for the Labour Party in the UK. When elected she was married in a heterosexual marriage. In 1975, the groundbreaking film portraying homosexual gay icon Quentin Crisp's life, The Naked Civil Servant was transmitted by Thames Television for the British Television channel ITV. The British journal Gay Left also began publication. After British Home Stores sacked an openly gay trainee Tony Whitehead, a national campaign subsequently picketed their stores in
Gay icon Russia especially in the gay community where she is considered as a true icon. Glenn Close was established as a gay icon after portraying Margarethe Cammermeyer in "" (1995). She gained more recognition through her campy portrayal of the glamorous Cruella de Vil in "101 Dalmatians" (1996) and as the fading diva Norma Desmond in the Broadway musical "Sunset Boulevard". Garth Brooks, whose sister is openly lesbian, was one of the first non-LGBT male artists to openly back gay rights, and later same-sex marriage. The Spice Girls became gay icons during the 1990s, on account of their dance-pop sound, flamboyant