Ma the 1950s, was the BBC's first documentary about gay men but the work was later lost.
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. 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. 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.
LGBT: 'THERE'VE ALWAYS BEEN GAY PEOPLE THE UNTRYSI'
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. * gay programme bbc *
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. Image source, Shay RowanImage ptn, The play b the origal script wh the fictnal tale of a young man 1950s BraIn 1957, the BBC broadst s first rad documentary about gay men. 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.
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
"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.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
"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. "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.
"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.
Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.
BBC’S GAY PROGRAMME EXTEND TO ONE HOUR
The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".
"It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says. "It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy".
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The one-day-ftival is beg held at the Ulster Folk Mm County DownA one-day ftival at the Ulster Folk Mm has highlighted untold stori and experienc om ral LGBTQ+ Bona Palooza ftival, which ran on Saturday, featur historians, artists and storytellers wh an sight to the untrysi's relatnship wh genr and sexual mori over the Palooza translat as "good gatherg" wh "bona" rivg om Polari - a centuri-old slang language ed by some gay micro-ftival at the County Down mm was billed as part of Natnal Mms NI's wir mment to clivy and Wells, creative programmer at Natnal Mms NI, said: "The Ulster Folk Mm reprents a very particular time the history of NI, this perd was before crimalisatn. "Image source, Ulster Folk MmImage ptn, The micro-ftival is to take place at Ulster Folk Mm, CultraDr Mrice Casey, a rearch fellow at Queen's Universy Belfast, letters, photographs and genealogil sourc to renstct the hidn histori of gay men and women early 20th-Century Ulster.