Gus Honeybun and Auntie Stella

This was mentioned on The Last Leg last night. Ian Stirling apparently used Gus Honeybun's birthday slot to give out coded messages to the gay community in Plymouth

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/gus-honeybun-would-send-coded-4982723

*Honeybun.
The original Ian Stirling was so underrated.

The Last Leg credited "Westwood TV" over the clip they showed last night (and not 'Westward TV')

Tim is a lot older than he makes out to be...

And in any case Josh’s memories and the clip used was probably from TSW.

Yes, they probably still call it Westward (Westwood) down there.

What a brilliant story!
That's made me smile today, very unexpected.

I find this fascinating, and makes me wonder what other parts of TV presentation featured hidden LGBT messages during more restrictive times.

Maybe certain testcard/Ceefax tracks secretly revealed an LGBT continuity announcer or presenter of the forthcoming programme? Did the colour key for the mirror globe/clock ever “accidentally” go rainbow for a few seconds? Maybe the national anthem got replaced with ‘You Make Me Feel Mighty Real’ one night, blamed on a technical malfunction but actually a signal of a forthcoming Pride march?

BBC Four docu-drama in the making, methinks.

I daresay you could hide coded messages in radio travel news fairly easily.

Or indeed within this thread.

I had my hand up Gus's bottom on a visit to Westward once, I did wash my hands afterwards.

As a slightly related aside, you might be interested to read up on Polari, the slang language used when homosexuality was still illegal in the U.K. It featured regularly in the BBC radio comedy series Round the Horne, although by that time it had become less commonplace in the gay community (according to Wikipedia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

Coded messages for the resistance were used during the Second World War in broadcasts to France hidden in some of the messages from home.
Are there any other known ones?