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This weekend, we wrote about a radical bookshop, In Other Words, which shaped LGBT+ history, and one of the owners actually used to operate the adorable rabbit. Gay Jones took up a temporary job at Television South West - and was responsible for operating the region's treasure. The couple’s daughter Karen was born in 1961 and their son Guy in 1967. As a family they often accompanied Roger to fete openings and various other events which was “great fun for all” they say.

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The fluffy bunny launched the careers of regional celebrities like Judy Spiers, David Fitzgerald and Ian Stirling.But of course Ian Stirling was one of them; he was an absolute dear, and very funny, and I really enjoyed the times when he was on, but I had absolutely no idea that he was sending coded messages out to the gay locals! That was extraordinary and I'm still laughing about it." Don’t worry, this wasn’t childish imagination; it was prime time Westward Television. Gus Honeybun is a Plymothian superstar and the mere mention of his name, whether through the adorable plush teddy we sell in The Box Shop or the children’s train on Plymouth Hoe, makes the young and old curious about this bunny rabbit. But where did he come from? Quote from: McDead on February 14, 2023, 09:18:46 PMThere's a song. Warning: it's both awful and catchy. Gus’ final television appearance aired on 31 December 1992 at the end of the very last ‘TSW Today’ programme, before Westcountry Television took over the franchise. He then returned to Dartmoor where he’d apparently been discovered so he could be reunited with his rabbit family – or did he………. But Dr Butler explains he was also iconic in other ways: "Gus became a means of LGBT people in Plymouth being able to communicate with each other.

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When I put in new plants and things, I come in, and he’s got soil all around his face, but he denies it all.” In the post-apocalyptic novel by Jasper Fforde entitled Shades of Grey, which is set 1500 years into the future, Devon and Cornwall are known as 'The Honeybun Peninsula'. The Gender Recognition Act 2004, which came into effect in 2005, gave trans people full legal recognition of their gender, allowing them to acquire a new birth certificate (although gender options are limited to ‘male’ or ‘female’). It's important to highlight our city's LGBT+ heritage and history - the people and places that have made Plymouth what it is. The Union Street strip was crammed with around 20 pubs in 1950s, and had a special "underground scene".Among these was his former co-presenter, David 'Fitz' Fitzgerald, now a presenter for BBC Radio Devon. It was the day commercial television came to the South West in the form of Westward Television. Television in Devon and Cornwall was still very much in its infancy - BBC South West launched only nine days earlier and televisions were something that many couldn’t yet access or afford. It had been quite a long wait - London had got ITV thanks to Associated-Rediffusion in 1955. Out in the arse end of the UK we had a monstrous tiger thing, described in this amusingly sour-grapesy article. A laughing Judi added: “Of course, everyone outside was just hysterical, the phones lit up with people saying ‘you can’t do that!’ We told them he was alright; he was fine. There was all those sorts of things that used to go on, and then you get people asking him to come out during parties with me too.” Westward’s famous ship sailed for one last time, and then TSW (Television South West, or Television Simply Wonderful to staff) took on the station on January 1, 1982, and kept Gus on board.

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News Punches, flying, bunny hops, and birthdays, retired west country icon Gus Honeybun reveals all about his television stardom By a gorse bush on Dartmoor a small bunny rabbit was found. His full name was Augustus Jeremiah Honeybun, and he was given the opportunity of a lifetime. He waved goodbye to his mother and father, and went to the bright lights of Derry’s Cross in Plymouth to the new studios of Westward Television. 1961 proved to be an exciting time for the city. On 20 April, BBC South West first broadcast from the region. Just over a week later Westward Television followed suit, and so did Gus.

I must admit, because I'm old enough I had my birthday read out a couple of times. A few people I've interviewed have said 'oh yes that was quite useful as a code for what was going on'. There’s no better place to start than with arguably our most famous of mascots - Augustus Jeremiah Honeybun, or Gus for short. You’d be hard-pressed to find a child (or adult!) of the 1960s, '70s or '80s that didn’t desperately want their card sent into Gus Honeybun’s Magic Birthdays to receive bunnyhops, a wink or a hit on the magic button. They married on July 31, 1959 in Chapel Street Methodist Church, Penzance, and the reception was held at The Hotel Royale. They honeymooned at Maenporth Cove near Falmouth.

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Augustus Jeremiah Honeybun, or Gus Honeybun for short, was the station mascot for Westward Television and then Television South West (TSW) from 1961 until 1992.Gus Honeybun was so identified with regional television in the south-west that when TSW's managing director Harry Turner presented the station's ITV franchise renewal in 1991 he took Gus with him. [1] However, Gus's Magic Birthdays series and his career at the station were ended at the start of 1993, when Westcountry Television took over from TSW after winning the franchise. If you won't allow people to define themselves and use the words they'd use, you're denying them their own identity and opportunity for the LGBT community in Plymouth to start feeling like a community," Dr Butler said. The bus was a deal with Western National, the local bus operator for Cornwall & Plymouth. They ran minibus routes that were branded as Hoppa, so one bus (Mercedes L608D C990 GCV) was given full Gus Honeybun branding along with the slogan "Hop on a Hoppa with Gus" and used on routes around Plymouth: People will tell you there were many gays bars in Plymouth at this time as there was in places like Brighton but they weren't specifically gay bars, very often," Alan Butler explains in his virtual LGBT tour. The last ever Gus Honeybun programme in 1992 saw Gus returned to the moor and reunited with his rabbit family. The successor ITV franchise Westcountry did provide a replacement programme called Birthday People, but this was cancelled in 2004