The only gay rad show on the BBC is movg timlots. Gay Night on BBC Rad Manchter will now be broadst on Mondays - and will be twice as popular muny show, prevly lled GayTalk, is movg om 6.30pm Wednday to Monday evengs at the show now an hour long, there will be twice as many featur and guts and more mic.
Contents:
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- LGBT: 'THERE'VE ALWAYS BEEN GAY PEOPLE THE UNTRYSI'
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- BBC’S GAY PROGRAMME EXTEND TO ONE HOUR
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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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.
LGBT: 'THERE'VE ALWAYS BEEN GAY PEOPLE THE UNTRYSI'
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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. 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.
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
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. I Kissed a Boy is packed wh explosive drama, grippg cliffhangers and powerful untold stori - om g out a strict relig fay, to the prsur of body image the gay datg scene, to navigatg self-acceptance, sex and first same sex relatnships. Servg joy, entertament and a sparklg soundtrack full of gay anthems, I Kissed a Boy is the ground-breakg show that will celebrate the queer muny and v all viewers to jo the party.
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The Homosexual Condn had taken three years to e to air, amid a climate of nsirable opprsn which you uld still be imprisoned for beg documentary was later lost but, followg the efforts of a Leictershire amic and an award-wng wrer, a play named The BBC's First Homosexual has been created about which is havg s first performance on Thursday. Intrigued, he read on to disver the lost script of one of the BBC's first attempts to exame the liv of gay men - a documentary named The Homosexual Condn, which had been broadst on the Home source, Picture suppliedImage ptn, Jordan Tweddle plays one of the lead rol the new productnIt had been rerd on 24 May 1954 but was nsired so taboo that had not been broadst until 25 July 1957.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
"As he examed the papers, Marc found the origal script for the documentary, as well as memos om those behd and letters tailg the reactn om listeners - cludg one om a gay man who had scribed as a the time the BBC ma the documentary, people were beg sent to prison for beg gay. "The qutn arose about whether you uld actually have any homosexual people on the programme, given that was a crimal offence, " says programme makers eventually opted to terview somebody who had been sentenced for gross cency but who appeared to nsir himself "reformed" source, Shay RowanImage ptn, Those behd the play say helps terrogate the attus of 1950s BraMarc adms such termology would s uneasily wh a morn dience. "It's a suatn where you have a whole bunch of straight men who don't now much about homosexualy pronouncg on the subject wh a great al of certu, " he says.
BBC’S GAY PROGRAMME EXTEND TO ONE HOUR
"The programme was mothballed for several years before eventually beg broadst at around the time of the Wolfenn Report which remend a partial crimalisatn of source, Shay RowanImage ptn, Marc felt the script was ripe for dramatisatnFollowg s broadst and the subsequent reactn, the director general at the time - Sir Ian Jab - mted to rea om broadstg any further ntent relatg to homosexualy, apart om for "special purpos", spe s flaws, posive thgs did emerge as a rult of the broadst. "Beg gay 1950s EnglandImage source, otherImage ptn, The arrt of Alan Turg and other celebrated figur highlighted the jtice of the lawsThe years followg World War Two saw a rise the arrts and prosecutns of gay - such as wartime breaker Alan Turg and knighted actor Sir John Gielgud - were high-profile figur.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
"The origal documentary featured terviews wh psychoanalysts claimg they uld "cure" gay men - what is known today as the "uhil and potentially harmful" practise of nversn therapy.