The BBC seri tells the harrowg te story of four young gay men who were murred by Stephen Port between 2014 and 2016 - but where is the so-lled Grdr Killer now?
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
Vic: Created by Gary Jati, Mark Ravenhill. Wh Derek Jabi, Ian McKellen, Franc la Tour, Iwan Rheon. Freddie Thornhill (Sir Ian McKellen) and Stuart Bixby (Sir Derek Jabi) are an old gay uple who have been together for nearly fifty years. Their liv now revolve around entertag their equent guts and hurlg sults at each other at every opportuny." data-id="ma * gay drama bbc *
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 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.
THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
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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.
BL/GAY SERI AND MOVI
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. 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.
DAT GAY SH (BL)
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.
My novel is ridg on a wave of tert that dat back the UK to 2017 and the 50th anniversary of the begng of crimalisatn of homosexualy. That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist. Over on Instagram, The Aids Memorial shar photos and stori of people – predomantly gay men – who died of the disease, wrten by those who loved them.
You’d not tch many queer al mers jottg down their memoirs – Crystal JeansHowever, 's fictn that’s very much drivg the phenomenon of brgg "lost" stori of gay life om the past to light. Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End). In the theatre, Matthew Lopez's exploratn of gay male history The Inherance triumphed London before transferrg to New York, where opened the year after a well-received revival of Mart Crowley's semal 1968 play Boys the Band.