'He was a gay guy who won': why I wrote a play about ice-skating genius John Curry

Tony Timberlake has turned his lifelong fascination with the champion figure skater and 1970s gay icon into a heartbreaking one-man show In 1976, John Curry won the figure-skating gold medal for Britain at the winter Olympics in Innsbruck. Later that year he was voted BBC sports personality of the year, at a time when cricketers, runners, racing drivers and members of the royal family tended to hog the award. Not bad for a gay man who in the same year was outed by a German newspaper – a po