Way before there were any gay men in the UK (well, officially that is) in public at least it was only women that ogled after men’s near-naked bodies. Each year there was a competition to find Mr. Apollo from a bevy of masculine beauties dressed in skimpy Speedo swim trunks.
The year was 1959 and the Judges were Sylvia Wren (winner if Miss Holiday Bathing Girl 1949 and a popular Irish wrestler Jack Doyle (known as “The Gorgeous Gael”) who for some reason insisted in inspecting the insides of the men’s mouths as if he were a dentist. They chose Jank Bunney as the winner.
The film is from Pathe News the media that the Brits trusted to help get them through WW2 and beyond, and they have an incredible archive of vintage footage that covers aspects of life in Britain at the beginning of the second half of the last Century in particular
Labels: 1959, 2018, culture, mens beauty contest, Turn Back Time
