Dan O'Neill, Bra's first openly gay wildlife televisn prenter, was told to 'play down' his sexualy by dtry peers.
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- CHANNEL 4 LED THE GAY REVOLUTN TV
- GAY BBC PRENTER ‘WAS TOLD TO PLAY DOWN HIS SEXUALY’ BY TV PROFSNALS
CHANNEL 4 LED THE GAY REVOLUTN TV
In 2017 he spoke to all five livg Brish Prime Misters a feature that celebrated 50 years sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy. The first black and first openly gay edor--chief of Vogue, Edward Ennful OBE, was the keynote speaker at the Pri London gala dner last year, where he spoke of how a new generatn was “openg our ey to who and how we n love”. Lycett first me out as gay, then as bisexual and now intifi as pansexual.
Prenter of BBC Rad 1’s Drivetime show, Nick Grimshaw me out as gay 2012, and is an ambassador for The Albert Kennedy Tst, a chary that works wh homels LGBT youth.
Calman is gay and married to lawyer Lee Cormack. I knew I was gay. If I wasn’t gay, I probably wouldn’t be a ic.
GAY BBC PRENTER ‘WAS TOLD TO PLAY DOWN HIS SEXUALY’ BY TV PROFSNALS
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 fact, the radil change happened the 1980s on Channel 4. 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 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 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” 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.