BBC announc major new seri of LGBTQ programmg, Gay Brannia | Royal Televisn Society

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• BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SERI OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG, GAY BRANNIA
• BBC: WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE A CRIME?
• GAY BRANNIA SEASON ON THE BBC
• BBC ANNOUNC GAY BRANNIA, A NEW SEASON OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG

BBC ANNOUNC MAJOR NEW SERI OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG, GAY BRANNIA

Gay Brannia will feature bold stori that celebrate the LGBTQ muny and highlight what means to be gay Bra today, whilst challengg existg prenceptns and prejudic.

The season of programmg will mark 50 years sce The Sexual Offenc Act 1967, which partially crimalised homosexual acts that took place private between two men over the age of 21.

BBC: WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE A CRIME?

The programm on BBC Two and BBC Four, as well as ntent across BBC rad and onle platforms, will explore the history of gay Bra and clu ntributns om the lik of San Calman, Andrew Stt, Val McDermid, Olly Alexanr, Sandi Toksvig and Simon Callow.

GAY BRANNIA SEASON ON THE BBC

BBC Two will show two dramas, Agast The Law, a pellg drama starrg Daniel Mays as journalist Peter Wilblood, who was found guilty of homosexualy the 1950s  the explosive Montagu Trial; and Man In An Orange Shirt om Brish novelist Patrick Gale starrg Vansa Redgrave.

The channel will also broadst a seri of documentari explorg what is like to be gay Bra, cludg Is It Safe To Be Gay The UK?

Which looks at the rise of attacks on lbian, gay and transgenr people, g personal ttimony and footage, and What Gay Did For Art which celebrat the ntributns lbian and gay people have ma to popular culture, the visual arts, lerature, theatre and film. BBC Four will also broadst Gluck, which explor the morn Brish reprentatn of female homosexualy culture, lerature, fashn and art, through the untold story of the artist Gluck (Hannah Gluckste, 1895-1978) who fied her ntemporari' fns of genr and sexualy, as well as documentary Queers, which clus Mark Gatiss' and other wrers' rpons to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act Queers.

BBC ANNOUNC GAY BRANNIA, A NEW SEASON OF LGBTQ PROGRAMMG

The onle ntent will clu Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay on BBC Three, which will see Olly Alexanr, lead sger of Years and Years and an active member of the LGBTQ muny, open up about his long-term battl wh prsn as he vtigat why mental health issu are more proment the gay muny. Brgg you well loved BBC Rad 4 programm and extra ntent that listeners n engage wh on-le through films and film’When did beg beg gay bee a crime’ was ma as part of the BBC’s ‘Gay Brannia’ season, a seri of programm ma 2017 which marked the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act 1967, which partially crimalised gay this film, journalist Ben Hunte looks at the laws that ma homosexualy illegal the UK pre prejudice to pri, this is a story of double-liv, suicis and brave fights that go all the way back to Henry ntextOther films the BBC"s Gay Brannia season n be viewed here.

For the past two weeks, the BBC has been markg 50 years sce the partial crimalisatn of homosexual acts, wh the Gay Brannia season, across televisn, rad and onle. The law may have changed but there are still many gay and transgenr people who don't feel safe the UK. And for good 're tacklg this head on our BBC Two film Is It Safe To Be Gay In The UK?

It's a raw, visceral film which a number of people reunt their experience of homophobic hate crim, many of which have occurred jt the past few years. It feels urgent and necsary viewg given reports of an crease homophobic attacks across the untry. In missng programm for this season, 's been important to lve to the history of our attus towards homosexualy; and the battl which took place orr for partial crimalisatn to take place.