Watch the first trailer for BBC One's gay drama A Very English Sndal

Contents:

• WATCH THE FIRST TRAILER FOR BBC ONE’S GAY DRAMA A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL
• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• BL/GAY SERI AND MOVI
• DAT GAY SH (BL)

WATCH THE FIRST TRAILER FOR BBC ONE’S GAY DRAMA A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL

Charlie and Nick - played by newer Joe Locke and Rocketman actor K Connor - are subjected to homophobic bullyg by Nick's so-lled (Yasm Fney), a transgenr teen, has recently moved om the boys' grammar school where all her iends are, to the girls' equivalent, after also sufferg cel, who has a built up a big followg on TikTok, postg about her experienc of beg a young, black transgenr woman the UK, endured difficulti at school source, NetflixImage ptn, Elle fds hard to make iends at her new school at first"For me, school was the same.

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

"The bate about thentic stg is still ongog - should gay rol only be played by gay actors, for example? The Sixth Commandment9pm, BBC OneTimothy Spall stars this dark drama by Sarah Phelps based on the horrifyg real-life se of Peter Farquhar, an elrly, eply closeted gay amic who was sced, exploed and eventually murred by too-good-to-be-te stunt Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke). Prolific gay screenwrer John Bowen, whose bt known Play for Today is the folk horror classic Rob Redbreast (1970), ntributed a subtle dose of queerns to the strand wh A Photograph (1977) – now available on Blu-ray for the first time.

BL/GAY SERI AND MOVI

Comg Out (1979)© BBC ArchiveThis multi-layered play by Jam Andrew Hall neatly skewers a certa placent metropolan ele of affluent gay men late-1970s Bra – a post-‘liberatn’, pre-AIDS world of apparent fort and relative assiatn belyg very real stggl beyond this sy bubble. Sardonic, middle-aged thor of (heterosexual) romantic novels Lewis Dunn (Anton Rodgers) has a younger on-off boyiend (Nigel Havers) and a smart set of gay, bohemian iends. Yet he’s not ‘out’ and when he wr a provotive magaze article unr a psdonym cricisg what he se as gay men’s promiscuy and victimhood, the ensug flood of letters sends him on his own journey of self-disvery.

Andrew Taylor’s sole Play for Today script chews sensatnalism favour of quietly grippg drama, as San is bullied and beltled by her volatile bohemian mother (a rivetg performance by Sylvia Kay), a predatory teenage girl-next-door, a homophobic lleague and a GP who tri to refer her to the “head shrkers”. The play also shows how the muddlg of genr inty wh transvtism and homosexualy – still rife 1970s Bra – plit that journey.

The gay characters here are plex and flawed; even Stephen, who’s ma a “al wh the vil”, urtg favours om a closeted bigwig South Ai’s ultra-nservative Natnal Party a risky bid to get Jam home. The drama follows Thorpe’s sperate bid to keep his gay affair wh Norman Stt – played here by Ben Whishaw – a secret durg the 1960s.

DAT GAY SH (BL)

From the teaser, also touch upon the rife homophobia that existed durg this perd, which me directly after the partial legalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal back 1967. But when I heard people ravg about the show, wrten by Rsell T Davi, I was stck by how many of them admted to knowg ltle about the epimic – and the stctn wreaked among the gay muny.

That’s bee, even today's much more acceptg society, the history of the gay and lbian muny is largely a fotten history. For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans. It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years.