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C4 ANNOUNC NEW SEASON, 50 SHAS OF GAY
* gay films on channel 4 *
Louisa Compton, Head of News, Current Affairs, Specialist Factual and Sport who is overseeg the Pri season says: “Channel 4 has been rponsible for more outstandg LGBTQ+ ntent over s 40 years than any other public service broadster -often missng ntent others wouldn’t touch, om award-wng dramas It’s A S, Queer As Folk, and Brooksi to novative factual stori cludg Football's Comg Out, Genrquake, and Hollyoaks: Gay Dads Forever. Films to make Outed: Gee Michael and the Fight for Freedom (w/t) – a two-part documentary re-examg the watershed moment that the pop in’s 1998 outg as a gay man and how he refed to be ashamed, speakg hontly about his sexualy, riskg his reer and his reputatn.
CHANNEL 4 LED THE GAY REVOLUTN TV
Reflectg on a time when the outg of gay men the media was monplace, the seri will tell the story of a culture war – between those who wanted to turn the clock back on gay rights and the micians, actors, sports stars and policians who took on the haters – and won.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
This landmark film tells the behd-the-scen upliftg story of how an unlikely aln of Tory policians, pneerg doctors and gay men me together to fight a adly disease wh no cure – and how Bra was changed forever by the battle agast AIDS the 1980s.
In Bra’s Great Gay Buildgs, prented by Stephen Fry, 7 famo gay fac champn the buildgs that have helped fe Bra’s gay history, revealg the groundbreakg events that happened them and extraordary people who lived and worked them.