BBC announc new season, Gay Brannia, markg the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act: Prsparty

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• GAY BRANNIA
• BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SEASON, GAY BRANNIA, MARKG THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEXUAL OFFENC ACT
• GAY BRANNIA
• BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SERI OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG, GAY BRANNIA
• TRAILER: GAY BRANNIA SEASON
• BBC ANNOUNC NEW SEASON, GAY BRANNIA, MARKG THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEXUAL OFFENC ACT
• GAY BRANNIA SEASON ON THE BBC

GAY BRANNIA

Gay Brannia, a season of programmg markg the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act 1967, which partially crimalised gay sex.

Gay Brannia on Rad 2.

Matthew Sweet on film and mic for hidn gay cema.

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

The Myth of Homosexual Decrimalisatn.

Peter Tatchell on how the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act failed to provi equaly for gay men. Who Decis If Gay Is OK? Why is OK to be gay the UK but not Zambia?

Gay Brannia. Ben Hunte meets Ben Cohen, then the edy seri wh 'the only gay the village'. The Archers' Gay Weddg.

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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?

Which ttimony and found footage to explore the rise of attacks on lbian, gay and transgenr people.

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.

BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SERI OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG, GAY BRANNIA

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’.

Trailer: Gay Brannia Season. Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay. Explorg the long journey to publitn of EM Forster's gay love story, Mrice.

TRAILER: GAY BRANNIA SEASON

The story of Victim, the first Brish film to addrs homosexualy serly. Riyadh looks at body image prsur the gay muny.

More om Gay Brannia. A grippg te story of love and homosexualy. Gay Brannia on BBC TV.

Gay Brannia on BBC Rad. The gay therapy that felt like torture.

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

Mark Gatiss curat stori om a century of Gay Bra. Programm celebratg gay culture and s journey om then until now.

Gay Brannia on Rad 1. Brish Library: 'Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty'. Queer Talk: Homosexualy Brten’s Bra.

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.

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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. 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.