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Contents:
- HOW TO WATCH I KISSED A BOY ONLE AND STREAM ALL EPISOS OF FIRST EVER UK GAY DATG SHOW FREE FROM ANYWHERE
- OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP GAY
- THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
HOW TO WATCH I KISSED A BOY ONLE AND STREAM ALL EPISOS OF FIRST EVER UK GAY DATG SHOW FREE FROM ANYWHERE
* gay series on bbc iplayer *
When HIV emerged Bra the 80s, a small group of pneerg rearchers began rerdg d terviews wh fected gay men and their iends. Other ntent on BBC Two clus a repeat of Pri Live at the Apollo featurg edians such as: Fern Brady, Diree Burch, Alan Carr, Eddie Izzard, Joe Lycett, Zoe Lyons, Tom Allen, Stephen K Amos, Jen Brister, Julian Clary, Suzi Ruffell and Ga Yashere and the 2014 BBC film Pri, where gay activists supported the mer strike.
BBC Three will also be airg LGBTQ+ tl cludg Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay, Lily: A Transgenr Story, Cherry Valente: Gypsy Queen and Proud and seri one of RuPl’s Drag Race UK. A Fabulo History of Gay Stland, Time and Aga and Queer as Art.
BBC Rad 4 will broadst Ziggy Stardt at 50 which looks at how David Bowie’s creatn of the androgyno Ziggy Stardt had a profound effect on his reer and allowed him to emerge as a pop prophet, gay rights champn, and cultural in. And Fifty Years of Pri, which marks fifty years sce the first Gay Pri march London, Damian Barr looks at what Pri reprented at the time, s metamorphosis over time and what has bee for today’s mpaigners. In 1984, wh Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party power, a group of lbian and gay activists, led by Mark Ashton, fd unlikely alli a llective of Welsh mers takg dtrial actn followg p closur.
OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP GAY
Origal drama seri om Rsell T Davi explorg the passns and pfalls of 21st-century gay life. Set and around the Manchter 'scene', this groundbreakg Channel 4 drama, documents the liv and lov of young gay men Stuart, Vce and Nathan.
Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay, BBC iPlayer. A Fabulo History of Gay Stland, BBC iPlayer.
Celebratg the postwar history of Stland's gay muny which, over 70 years, has seen gay men and lbians transform om Stland's pariahs to Stland's pri. Stland was over a behd England and Wal crimalisg homosexualy but now has the bt gay rights Europe: nothg short of a revolutn. The UK has been pecially strong this regard, mirrorg s mendable rerd of excellent gay cema.
THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
Followg this creria, programm as diverse as Brishead Revised (1981), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), Six Feet Unr (2001-05), The Wire (2002-08), Glee (2009-) and Morn Fay (2009-) don’t make the cut, spe their strong sendary queer characters (the ternatnal succs of Morn Fay particular, broadst untri where homosexualy is still illegal, uld help liberalise attus, followg the marriage of Cameron and Mchell, two of the most popular characters). Will & Grace (1998-2006) was a huge h, but s portrayal of gay men was clichéd and too few of the jok land (although try tellg that to the often hysteril stud dience). Homoeroticism throbs subtly throughout, but only the remarkable two-hour epilogue do e to the fore, through a fantastic and nightmarish journey through the md of Biberkopf.
Dpe bomb threats to the stud and protts om relig groups, the episo was broadst 1997, wh Ellen fally utterg the words “I’m gay”, accintally speakg the words to the microphone at an airport check- sk. Some crics bemoaned the foc on gay issu, and ratgs fell, leadg to the show’s ncellatn. Queer as Folk (1999-2000)This one me out of nowhere, a shamels and often outrageo seri that gave a kickg to the perceptn of gay men as sexls bt iends to female protagonists and stead put them centre stage, showg them to be as flawed, selfish and sex-hungry as everyone else – more so, fact.
Its first episo, featurg 29-year-old Stuart rimmg a horny 15-year old, was unapologetilly provotive, and upset both the tabloids and many gay viewers, who were alarmed by s subversive characters. It hasn’t dated a jot (although Manchter’s Canal Street is now the stompg ground of hen parti alongsi the gay clubbers), and lnched the reers of s three stars, Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly and Charlie Hunnam.