For the first time an eye-openg Channel 4 documentary is ready to lift the lid on the secret world of gay snas
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- CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY UNLOCKS SECRETS OF GAY SNA SHOWG 'GLORY HOL', SEX SWGS AND ROOMS FOR ANONYMO ENUNTERS
- SECRETS OF THE SNA: CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY TAK VIEWERS SI A GAY SNA TO REVEAL WHAT REALLY GO ON
CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY UNLOCKS SECRETS OF GAY SNA SHOWG 'GLORY HOL', SEX SWGS AND ROOMS FOR ANONYMO ENUNTERS
Channel 4 documentary unlocks secrets of gay sna showg 'glory hol', sex swgs and rooms for anonymo enuntersFor the first time an eye-openg Channel 4 documentary is ready to lift the lid on the secret world of gay snasVio LoadgVio UnavailableThe Gay Sna Secrets Of The Sna on Channel 4 A new Channel 4 documentary is set to unlock the secrets of a gay sna for the first time. Takg a look the upper level of Nottgham's popular CS2 - which has been open for jt over four years and is equented by dozens of gay and bi-cur men every week - the programme has been given exclive accs to the sna. However 's the upstairs of the buildg which is 'unique to a gay sna'.
And to be able to do durg the documentary felt like a real opportuny to say very publicly 'We’re married, we’re happy, we’re gay, we’re proud.
Never one to shy away om ntroversial or taboo subject matters, Channel 4 is airg s one-off documentary about life si a gay sna on Wednday. ”Joe and John married durg filmg as a public statement that they are “happy, gay and proud” Secrets of the Sna on Wednday 2 March at 10. Owen Jon’s celebratn markg 20 years sce the excellent seri Queer as Folk was first televised (Journal, 28 Febary) suggts that was this groundbreakg programme that transformed gay reprentatn on Brish TV.In fact, the radil change happened the 1980s on Channel 4.
SECRETS OF THE SNA: CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY TAK VIEWERS SI A GAY SNA TO REVEAL WHAT REALLY GO ON
And this year is the 30th anniversary of C4’s Out on Tuday (later OUT), the world’s first worked televisn seri aimed at a lbian and gay dience.
It ran between 1989 and 1994 and was the culmatn of work done by a lot of lbians and gay men – mpaigners, journalists, dividuals and a very small number of workg televisn – for more posive and more regular reprentatn of on TV.The journey towards airg the programm was a bumpy ri – volvg qutns parliament, a mpaign by anti-permissive-society activist Mary Whehoe and tabloid newspaper hysteria – and all unfold as part of the rponse of the gay and lbian muny to the Aids crisis and the dranian sectn 28 anti-gay legislatn.The groundbreakg productns that changed broadstg culture happened across more than a om C4’s ceptn 1982. From One Five 1983 through My Betiful Lndrette, In the Pk and Out on Tuday to Dyke TV 1994, our screens were opened up to gay stori.
The rpons of the lns of lbians and gay men who watched the programm were much like Owen’s “joyful revelatn”.The impact broadstg was felt at the BBC, which started to missn s own gay and lbian seri, and the groundwork was laid for all the wonrful dramas and documentari that followed later years, cludg Queer as Folk. None of the would have happened whout the 1980s gay revolutn TV.Carole SpryCommissng edor, C4, 1985-95 Jo the bate – email guardian.letters@ Read more Guardian letters – click here to vis /letters. The channel will unver the history of homosexualy laws and the evolvg perceptns of homosexualy Bra over the last 50 years four documentari and a llectn of shorts.