2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• GAY PARTI & EVENTS

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

Both films will go out around the anniversary of the first UK Gay Pri Rally which was held London on 1st July 1972. To be shown later the year, Outed: Gee Michael and the Fight for Freedom (w/t) will be a two-part re-examg the pop in’s 1998 outg as a gay man and how he refed to be ashamed. Louisa Compton, Head of News, Current Affairs, Specialist Factual and Sport who is overseeg the Pri season says: “Channel 4 has been rponsible for more outstandg LGBTQ+ ntent over s 40 years than any other public service broadster -often missng ntent others wouldn’t touch, om award-wng dramas It’s A S, Queer As Folk, and Brooksi to novative factual stori cludg Football's Comg Out, Genrquake, and Hollyoaks: Gay Dads Forever.

Films to make Outed: Gee Michael and the Fight for Freedom (w/t) – a two-part documentary re-examg the watershed moment that the pop in’s 1998 outg as a gay man and how he refed to be ashamed, speakg hontly about his sexualy, riskg his reer and his reputatn. Reflectg on a time when the outg of gay men the media was monplace, the seri will tell the story of a culture war – between those who wanted to turn the clock back on gay rights and the micians, actors, sports stars and policians who took on the haters – and won. An eye-opener for televisn viewers at s time, and a landmark that projected the visibily of gay men drama; Queer as Folk remas heart-warmg, si-spltgly funny and thrillg.

Ma for 2022, the anniversary of the UK’s first Pri event, a huge llectn of ntributors for gay rights discs and celebrate the events they’ve been a part of – and measure the progrs that’s been ma. Produced by Stephen Daldry and featurg Sir Ian McKellen, Olly Alexanr and a whole host of gay ins, wns the stris the Pri stggle has taken over the urse of five s.