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
George Shaw (civil servant) Commissioner of Upper Burma in 1905, and finally as Lieutenant-Governor for part of 1913. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1908. He retired in 1914 and was knighted that same year. He died in Fulham, London, aged 73. George Shaw (civil servant) Sir George Watson Shaw (3 January 1858 – 27 November 1931) was a British colonial civil servant who was Lieutenant Governor of the British Crown Colony of Burma from 15 May to 1 November 1913. Shaw was born in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Major Robert Shaw of the