BBC announc major new seri of LGBTQ programmg, Gay Brannia | Royal Televisn Society

Contents:

• GAY BRANNIA
• BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SEASON, GAY BRANNIA, MARKG THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEXUAL OFFENC ACT
• BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SERI OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG, GAY BRANNIA
• BBC ANNOUNC NEW SEASON, GAY BRANNIA, MARKG THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEXUAL OFFENC ACT
• BBC ANNOUNC GAY BRANNIA, A NEW SEASON OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG
• GAY BRANNIA SEASON ON THE BBC
• BBC UNVEILS GAY BRANNIA SEASON
• BBC AMERI TO SHOW MARK GATISS’ GAY BRANNIA SERI ‘QUEERS’

GAY BRANNIA

Gay Brannia, a season of programmg markg the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act 1967, which partially crimalised gay sex. This season is a powerful examatn of how far we have e - whilst also explorg how much further we have to travelLed by programmg on BBC Two and BBC Four, wh other ntent across BBC rad and onle, the Gay Brannia season will feature bold and provotive stori that celebrate the LGBTQ muny as well as challengg existg prenceptns and prejudic. The season will also st a h light on the history of gay Bra, as well as highlightg jt what means to be gay Bra today.

On BBC Two, the season rang om pellg drama Agast The Law, starrg Daniel Mays as journalist Peter Wilblood (who was found guilty of homosexualy the 1950s, the explosive Montagu Trial); to the first screen drama om bt-sellg Brish novelist Patrick Gale, Man In An Orange Shirt, starrg Vansa Redgrave; to important and timely documentari such as Is It Safe To Be Gay The UK? What Gay Did For Art (BBC Two) celebrat the ntributn lbian and gay people have ma to popular culture, the visual arts, lerature, theatre and film; while Prejudice and Pri: The People’s History Of LGBTQ Bra, prented by San Calman and Stephen K Amos on BBC Four, reveals the prec mementos and memorabilia that have the changed the liv of LGBTQ people over the last 50 years. Also on BBC Four, Gluck charts the morn Brish history of female homosexualy and s reprentatn culture, lerature, fashn and art, through the untold story of the celebrated artist Gluck (Hannah Gluckste, 1895-1978) who fied her ntemporari' fns of genr and sexualy; and Mark Gatiss offers his and other wrers' rpons to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act Queers.

On BBC Three, Olly Alexanr, lead sger of Years and Years and a powerful voice on LGBTQ rights, explor why the gay muny is more vulnerable to mental health issu, as he opens up about his own long-term battl wh prsn Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay. On Rad 3, the drama Victim will trace the bravery behd the 1961 film of the same name, which was the first English language film to e the word ‘homosexual’.

BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SEASON, GAY BRANNIA, MARKG THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEXUAL OFFENC ACT

Prejudice And Pri: The People’s History Of LGBTQ Bra (2 x 60)In this unique seri, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people om across the untry have been diggg out and sharg the mementos and memorabilia that changed their liv over 50 years sce the landmark 1967 Act crimalised homosexualy. Produced by 7Wonr and prented by edians Stephen K Amos and San Calman (pictured), the films chart a rolleraster journey - om the dacy of a Gay Liberatn Front mune, to the anguish of the AIDS crisis, om the stggle agast Sectn 28 to the ecstasy of Pri ’97, om the ath of iends the Admiral Dunn bombg to the joy of a lbian marriage - this is the story of all of , the people we loved and the people we sometim hated.

From the e of the word ‘vert’ Hall’s famo book The Well Of Lonels, to the word ‘sapphist’ - ed by upper class bohemians the 1930s - female homosexualy wasn’t clearly fed Gluck’s time - the word ‘lbian’ not yet wily ed. As well as Gluck’s personal story, this film explor the morn Brish history of female homosexualy and s reprentatn culture, lerature, fashn and art: om the way fashn glamorised the androgyno look to Gluck’s most inic patg Medalln, a double portra of herself and her lover Nta Obermer, which Gluck lled her ‘marriage portra’.

Focsg chiefly on the gay male experience, the monologu beg 1917 wh The Man On The Platform - the story of a soldier returng om the trench of the First World War and reflectg on both his attractn to another man and a very particular childhood memory. Other stori clu Jackie Clune's A Perfect Gentleman, which we meet Bobby, a dandy wh a very unexpected secret, and Brian Fillis' More Anger, which exam the journey of a young gay actor the 1980s. Takg 1957's Wolfenn Report, the HIV crisis and the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act self, the 15-mute monologu will mark and celebrate some of the most poignant, funny, entertag, tragic and rto moments before and after the '67 Act and the very personal r-of-passage of Brish gay men through the last 100 years.

BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SERI OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG, GAY BRANNIA

Storyville - Queerama (1 x 70)A BBC Storyville BFI archive film about a century of gay rights, sir and history, wh a soundtrack by John Grant and llaborators.

Ackerley, also gay, puts Daley on the rad and troduc him to his lerary iends cludg Room Wh A View thor EM Forster. Wrers Marty Feldman and Barry Took e gay slang Polari the nuendo-laced Julian and Sandy sketch Round the Horne, wh leral straight-man Kenh Horne. Millns listen at Sunday lunchtim to the highly gay stereotyped characters played by Hugh Paddick and Kenh Williams.

BBC ANNOUNC NEW SEASON, GAY BRANNIA, MARKG THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEXUAL OFFENC ACT

Bona = good, dolly = pretty, eke (ef) = face, lalli = legs, naff = bbish/poor, nanty = no/nothg, ogle = look/eye, omi = man, omipalone = gay man, palone = woman, riah = hair, varda = seeRound the Horne, Sunday 7 March 1965, 14.

The stud-based play is billed as ‘a smopolan London uple (Glenda Jackson and Aled Lynch) fd their outwardly charmed liv upend by a troubled homosexual iend (Nil Williamson)’. However, after 10 long years of mpaigng to implement the Wolfenn Report, the new act is barely a victory for gay rights.

BBC ANNOUNC GAY BRANNIA, A NEW SEASON OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG

It do not ver the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forc, do not extend to Stland or Northern Ireland, and do not equalise the discrimatory age of nsent for gay men. Man Alive broadsts two edns weeks ahead of the Act lookg at the liv of gay men and lbians Alive: Consentg Adults: 2: The Women, BBC Two, Wednday 14 June 1967, 1970s: Breakthrough. Humphri (John Inman), Bombardier ‘Gloria’ Bemont (Melvyn Hay) and edian-host Larry Grayson reprent only one type of gay man.

Negative portrayals of the LGBT+ muny on televisn are wispread at this time, but radil for s day, toward the end of this episo of Steptoe and Son a gay police officer is troduced, whout all the ual stereotyped characterisatns.

GAY BRANNIA SEASON ON THE BBC

Intifyg as gay, Robson is unique chart mic at the time, when rerd pani expect artist to be the closet for fear of affectg sal. ‘Glad to be Gay’ is banned by Rad 1’s Top 40 show, and not performed on Top of the Pops, but John Peel ntu to play . A play based around a rearcher's disvery of thker and early gay rights mpaigner Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) Other Si: Only Connect, Friday 18 May 1979, 21.

But Lewis is actually a life-long homosexual and when he rashly ntribut an article to a gay magaze, looks as though he may be forced to clare himself. Meanwhile science strand Horizon broadsts Killer the Village, the first full-length -pth UK documentary on the health crisis emergg New York’s gay village known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS.

BBC UNVEILS GAY BRANNIA SEASON

Most LGBT+ performers om Freddie Mercury to Gee Michael keep their sexualy quiet as the mic dtry mands, but two new bands wh out-gay members and lyrics wh gay them break nventn wh their h but sgl Frankie Go to Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ and Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’. Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act (1988, now repealed) stat that a lol thory ‘shall not tentnally promote homosexualy... He tells his fay before the rerd programme was broadst and go on to found LGBT+ rights chary 1990s: It’s not Daytime, ’s Gaytime!

BBC AMERI TO SHOW MARK GATISS’ GAY BRANNIA SERI ‘QUEERS’

The Sun newspaper lls for producer Matthew Robson to be sacked over the gay and Gary, Byker Grove, 1994. He is also the most proment gay polician om a mlim Alli, pictured 2000s: Trans visibily & BBC News LGBT+. Prenters Kristian Digby, Jonathon Natynczyk, Tom Ashton, Robert Robertson and Stt Cappuro, That Gay Show, 2001, BBC Choice.

Trans activist Paris Le wrote ‘Kyle’s entrance to EastEnrs is a cultural landmark on a par wh the show’s first gay character the 80s.

50 years on om the first relaxg of anti-LGBT+ laws, the BBC’s major Gay Brannia season looks back at LGBT+ history and tells many new stori om different perspectiv about life for LGBT+ people 2017. Rearch by Simon Rooks, BBC, & Stephen Bourne, thor, Playg Gay the Goln Age of Brish TV, History Prs, 2019, and Playg Gay, BBC Rearch Blog, 2019.