Stale take: Why did they make the BBC's Merl so gay?
Contents:
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- THE BBC AND LGBT+ RIGHTS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UNFIVABLE
- VIGIL’S TENR GAY LOVE STORY SETS APART OM OTHER BIG THRILLERS
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
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THE BBC AND LGBT+ RIGHTS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UNFIVABLE
0%) chose not to disclose their genr who did answer were able to select om optns cludg heterosexual, gay, lbian and bisexual. However, prev surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, and recent years there has been a small gradual cle the number of people intifyg as exclively straight. Today LGBTQ+ liv are featured on BBC programm like any other muny, and to mark UK Pri Month 2020, BBC History trac how the broadster has unrstood s LGBTQ+ dience over the years - om absolute visibily on pre-war TV to a celebratn of LGBTQ+ liv on Gaytime TV 90s - ’s a fascatg journey.
Gaytime TVThe Daily Mail celebrated the arrival of the BBC’s first dited programme for the LGBTQ+ muny 1995, sayg had a ‘lightns of touch that other mory tert magaz would do well to emulate’. Through new terviews for the BBC Oral History Collectn, our history of Gaytime TV explor what beme a sea change LGBTQ+ your MemoriWhat BBC LGBT+ programm do you remember over the years? Officials said the book picted homosexualy and was sold to love story, about two teenage boys, has been ma to a Netflix fe was issued by the Budapt metropolan ernment office, which told the state news agency MTI that had nducted an vtigatn to the bookshop for sellg the tle, and others that portray plotl volvg homosexualy.
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VIGIL’S TENR GAY LOVE STORY SETS APART OM OTHER BIG THRILLERS
Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry.
"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000. Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.
It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.