Channel 4's gay season: a missed opportuny?

C4 ANNOUNC NEW SEASON, 50 SHAS OF GAY

Channel 4 is markg the 50th anniversary of the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy wh a new season of programm: 50 Shas of Gay.

In a documentary of the same name, Rupert Everett livers his personal and ank take on the velopments gay life Bra sce crimalisatn. Not Guilty (w/t) shows how gay men ntued to be persecuted long after the 1967 Act began to crimalise homosexualy.

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Far om herg an end to prejudice, 1967 unleashed a backlash of homophobia. Epimic [w/t] tells how an unlikely aln of gay mpaigners, Tory policians, and pneerg doctors me together to fight AIDS the 1980s – and changed Bra the procs. Born This Way (w/t) reveals that while mpaigners were battlg Parliament for legal reforms, pop mic was changg hearts and mds, brgg gay culture to the livg rooms of Bra.

And Bra’s Great Gay Buildgs, famo fac such as Simon Callow, Lord Waheed, Anna Richardson and Mary Portas champn the buildgs where extraordary moments Bra’s gay history took place.

This film reveals how gay men ntued to be persecuted long after the 1967 Act began to crimalise homosexualy. Far om herg an end to prejudice, 1967 unleashed a backlash of homophobia enforced by the police and the urts, as many aspects of gay life ntued to be illegal.

The film tells the stori of some of the 15, 000 men who fell foul of Bra’s homophobic laws durg the past half century - and expos how the jtice ntu today. This landmark film tells the behd-the-scen upliftg story of how an unlikely aln of Tory policians, pneerg doctors and gay men me together to fight a adly disease wh no cure – and how Bra was changed forever by the battle agast AIDS the 1980s. Together they overme a homophobic prs, the ignorance of the medil tablishment, and the outright hostily of Margaret Thatcher, orr to create a mpaign that would change hearts and mds about AIDS – and gay men.

50 Shas of Gay.