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The drama will follow the impact of AIDS on the liv of young gay men London. Lead actor Olly Alexanr, 30, has been out as gay sce the start of his mic reer.

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In 2017, he onted a BBC documentary lled Growg Up Gay, which he revealed somethg of the mental health challeng he and other gay people face. Wh each new season, the seri has bee creasgly queer wh stori explorg pansexualy and what means to be gay or transgenr. Black Monday (Showtime)Inially about the events leadg up to the worst stock market crash history, the seri has expand beyond that, cludg more time spent the world of Andrew Rannells’ closeted gay character, Blair, who is a sham marriage wh Casey Wilson and havg a secret affair wh a polician played by Tuc Watks.

Dear Whe People (Netflix)The seri created by Jt Simien pulls the veil back on what many believed was a post-racial world followg the electn of Print Barack Obama, offerg sight to the Black experience as seen through the terlockg stori of several stunts, cludg buddg gay journalist Lnel (DeRon Horton), attendg the fict, predomantly whe Ivy League school Wchter Universy. Heartstopper (Netflix)The Brish g-of-age seri adapted om the graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman tells the story of Charlie Sprg (Joe Locke), a gay schoolboy who falls love wh his classmate, Nick Nelson (K Connor).

It's a S (Max)Spanng a startg 1981, the five-part seri created by Davi follows a group of gay iends -- Rchie (Olly Alexanr), Rose (Omari Douglas) and Col (Callum Stt Howells) -- and their straight girliend, Jill (Lydia Wt), as they go om chasg their dreams to fightg for survival a prejudiced society. Lookg (HBO)Told over two short seasons and a 90-mute film, Lookg is creator Michael Lannan's moody and darkly funny story about three gay men -- Patrick (Jonathan Groff), Agt (Frankie J.

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Pose (FX)Co-created by Steven Canals, the groundbreakg seri follows the liv of Black and brown transgenr women and gay men of the 1980s New York Cy ballroom scene. Special (Netflix)Created by and starrg Ryan O’Connell, Special tells the story of Ryan, a gay man wh cerebral palsy steppg out om the protectn of his helipter mom to create a world of his own, which means movg out, makg new iends and fdg romance. As Michael, Harris’ life is upend after his hband of 17 years (Tuc Watks) sudnly leav him and is forced to navigate New York Cy as a newly sgle gay man his mid-forti.

They subject Cameron and the other rints to strange gay nversn therapi.

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That saw a major shift towards the emergence of a global gay culture. The gay genie me right out of s ltle pk bottle and to the streets (and the media…and polics…and the arts…). For example, the US, the Court of Appeal led that there was no ‘fundamental right’ to be gay.

In the UK, the Thatcher ernment created Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act, makg illegal for lol thori to support anythg that might promote homosexual relatnships as a viable alternative to heterosexual ‘fay life’. And, unsurprisgly, the Catholic Church ntued ’s attack on gays. In 1986 Pope John Pl II labelled “evil” and orred the Church to whdraw all support om gay Catholic anisatns.

And even the US Army, who had clared homosexualy to be “patible wh ary service” 1982, were forced to adm 1989 that gay recs were “jt as good or better” than heterosexuals. A police tective go unrver the unrground S&M gay subculture of New York Cy to tch a serial killer who is preyg on gay men.

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