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Contents:
- MARK GATISS: “IT FEELS LIKE MANY GAY RIGHTS VICTORI ARE SLIPPG AWAY”
- MARK GATISS: CALLG GAY HELPLE AS A BOY 'LIFTED BURN'
- MARK GATISS CURAT GAY MONOLOGUE SERI FOR BBC FOUR
- MARK GATISS CURAT GAY MONOLOGUE SERI FOR BBC FOUR
- MARK GATISS TALKS G OUT, LGBT HISTORY, AND POLIL RRECTNS THE GAY MUNY
- BBC AMERI TO SHOW MARK GATISS’ GAY BRANNIA SERI ‘QUEERS’
- THE BOYS THE BAND REVIEW – MARK GATISS AND FE ST ELEVATE DATED GAY DRAMA
- MARK GATISS TALKS G OUT, LGBT HISTORY, AND POLIL RRECTNS THE GAY MUNY
MARK GATISS: “IT FEELS LIKE MANY GAY RIGHTS VICTORI ARE SLIPPG AWAY”
Sherlock and Doctor Who star Mark Gatiss rells the first time he said 'I'm gay' to another person. * is mark gatiss gay *
TVMark Gatiss, who has curated a seri of monologu for the BBC’s Gay Brannia season, says the current polil climate is a threat to LGBT rights – although “people like Olly Alexanr” give him hopeMark Gatiss is one of our bt, and bt-loved actors, wrers, directors. He is also perhaps the most high-profile and powerful gay man the Brish televisn dtry, wh Doctor Who, Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen among his part of the BBC’s Gay Brannia season, markg half a century sce the Sexual Offenc Act, Gatiss was asked to curate a season of monologu – chartg life for gay men the 50 years before and after the legislatn. “I knew they had to be largely about the gay male experience bee that is what the legislatn was about.
”From Ben Whishaw’s soldier (above) returng om the First World War trench (10pm, July 31, BBC Four) to Alan Cummg reflectg on gay marriage the prent day (10.
MARK GATISS: CALLG GAY HELPLE AS A BOY 'LIFTED BURN'
The eight origal shorts, overseen by Mark Gatiss, will chart a century of the UK gay experience. * is mark gatiss gay *
20pm, Augt 3, BBC Four), via Rsell Tovey as a young gay actor the 1980s, the Queers monologu, many by first-time wrers for televisn, showse a range of stori. That is one of the thgs I fd tratg about the splterg of the gay movement. We have arguments about ty aspects of our privileged experience while halfway round the world people are beg set on fire for beg is a lot that has been gaed and an awful lot still to fight for“We have advanced so far but only a few hundred away they are openg mps for gay men.
The Gay Brannia season has clud a documentary which Years and Years ontman, Olly Alexanr, explor mental health issu wh the LGBT muny (available on iPlayer for five months) – and Gatiss says that, “people like Olly give me great hope.
“He is so fantastilly, unapologetilly gay, ” he ntu. I knew I was gay but there were so few reprent-atns on TV, was this magic moment. Gay cliché alert here: she bought me A Boy’s Own Story and I fell love wh the boy on the ver.
MARK GATISS CURAT GAY MONOLOGUE SERI FOR BBC FOUR
The eight origal shorts, overseen by Mark Gatiss, will chart a century of the UK gay experience. * is mark gatiss gay *
Lipman’s character had two gay iends who shared a flat. In their flat there was a big poster for the Gay Swchboard, or the Swchboard as is known the days, wh the phone number. You're currently on page 1Although BBC's Gay Brannia season set out to mark the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act 1967, Queers is by no means rtricted to the past five s.
And do so all om one pub: everythg Queers – om a returng First World War soldier rellg a forbidn love, to an anx hband-to-be preppg his speech for one of the first gay weddgs – tak plac a sgle, what are each of the monologu about? The first of the Queers monologu is set 1917 (a time when you uld go to jail for engagg a gay sex act) and se a young soldier remiscg an unspoken romance on the battlefield.
MARK GATISS CURAT GAY MONOLOGUE SERI FOR BBC FOUR
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Although keepg a low profile, Whishaw has prevly spoken about g out as gay, tellg The Sunday Tim Magaze (via The Inpennt) 2014 that " is hard, I appld anyone who do . A Grand Day Out marks his first TV wrg cred – Dennis is normally known as a highly experienced stage manager whose work clus Sex wh Strangers and The Intelligent Homosexual's Gui To Capalism And Socialism (Hampstead Theatre), Future Condnal (The Old Vic)and Oppenheimer (RSC)'re currently on page 1.
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MARK GATISS TALKS G OUT, LGBT HISTORY, AND POLIL RRECTNS THE GAY MUNY
In episo eight, edor--chief Matt Ca chats to wrer, edian and actor Mark Gatiss. He discs growg up gay County Durham the 1970s, his... * is mark gatiss gay *
I loved her arly and we had a very nice time, but on the Ksey sle, I would say I was always predomantly gay.
As a 12 or 13-year-old boy growg up north-east England, Mark Gatiss was not to know he would grow up to be a hoehold name as an actor and the late 1970s, all he was worried about was that he uld not say out loud what he knew his knew he was gay, but had no-one to talk to about he lled Swchboard, the LGBT helple that's provid a listeng ear to lns of people sce s lnch.
Image source, PAImage ptn, Gatiss's piece will tell of a a young man returng om the trench of World War ISherlock -creator Mark Gatiss has a new project - a seri of origal dramatic shorts for BBC Four chartg a century of the UK gay experience. Actrs and sger Jackie Clune and Brian Fillis, of An Englishman New York and The Curse of Steptoe fame, will also wre piec for the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Lord Wolfenn's report paved the way for the crimalisatn of homosexualyThe other five wrers - who clu Guardian journalist Gareth McLean and former UK poetry slam champn Keh Jarrett - will all be makg their TV wrg piec will addrs the Wolfenn Report of 1957, which remend that homosexualy should no longer be a crime; the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act, which ma gay relatnships legal for men aged 21 and over; and the HIV crisis that cimated the gay muny the 1980s. Acrdg to BBC Four, they will "mark and celebrate some of the most poignant, funny, entertag, tragic and rto moments of Brish gay history and the very personal r of passage of gay Brons through the last 100 years".
BBC AMERI TO SHOW MARK GATISS’ GAY BRANNIA SERI ‘QUEERS’
BBC Ameri will lnch “Queers,” later this year, the U.K. drama seri om “Sherlock” wrer Mark Gatiss , and about life for gay people. * is mark gatiss gay *
Actor and wrer Mark Gatiss has shared his thoughts about the prri of the LGBT+ muny on the latt Sherlock -creator sists that the gay muny should be “lookg at the bigger picture”, potg at human rights ab currently occurrg the Middle East and Chechnya. “What really gets me very worked up the days is that we are losg ourselv sometim ty bat about personal pronouns when the world is on fire and ISIS is throwg people off buildgs for beg gay, ” he says the podst. He discs growg up gay County Durham the 1970s, his long-standg love of Doctor Who, and his earlit sexual experienc wh both men and women.
THE BOYS THE BAND REVIEW – MARK GATISS AND FE ST ELEVATE DATED GAY DRAMA
He also reveals his ial disfort on the gay scene and how he met his hband on an early gay datg ’s terview is both entertag and sightful. BBC Ameri will lnch “Queers, ” later this year, the Brish drama seri om “Sherlock” wrer Mark Gatiss that looks at life for gay men and women the U.
Was part of a longer “Gay Brannia” season on pubster the BBC, which was lnched to mark 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act, the law that crimalized homosexual acts the U. Episos clu Ben Whishaw’s turn as a soldier returng om the trench of the First World War, and, 100 years later, Alan Cummg as a man reflectg on gay marriage.
MARK GATISS TALKS G OUT, LGBT HISTORY, AND POLIL RRECTNS THE GAY MUNY
“‘Queers’ is a unique and affectg seri of short films about the Brish Gay experience, ” said Sarah Bart, print, BBC Ameri.
Mart Crowley’s 1968 play about a group of gay men throwg a party is always fascatg as a social document even when ’s ls than pellg drama. A fe st are always battlg agast the odds, and agast Crowley’s tenncy to p ic l on them as if puttg tails on Boys the Band, already mercially succsful a year before the Stonewall rts hered a new era, paved the way for the pictn of gay characters mastream drama and the later succs of plays such as Harvey Fierste’s Torch Song Trilogy. Soon the eveng is scendg to drk-fuelled fisticuffs, and Michael falls off the wagon to cel tth-tellg gam which the men’s unspoken sir and ternalised homophobia are exposed like wounds.