From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films.
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C4 ANNOUNC NEW SEASON, 50 SHAS OF GAY
Channel 4 announc 50 Shas of Gay season markg the 50th anniversary of the partial-crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal * 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.
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.
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.
CHANNEL 4 LED THE GAY REVOLUTN TV
The Reverend Richard Cole reviss Heaven Nightclub after many years to reveal s hedonistic past, Mary Portas viss Shibn Hall Yorkshire to disver the secret diari of a Yorkshire heirs, Craig Revel Horwood revels the story of Bra’s drag scene at the Royal Vxhall Tavern, Simon Callow tells the story of Osr Wil’s downfall at the Old Bailey, Rikki Beadle Blair viss the Theatre Royal Haymarket to disver how the Brish public showed their support for Sir John Gielgud after his arrt for ttagg, Liz Carr travels to Bletchley Park to vis the place that fostered one of Bra’s greatt scientists Alan Turg and Lord Waheed Alli tells the story of the Ho of Parliament’s recent battle for gay rights. It’s a mp classic wh hilar l but more importantly, featur an inic performance om Michael Greer, one of the first openly gay actors to appear major Hollywood The Gay Deceivers on Tubi TVGayby (2012)Based on the award-wng short film of the same name, Gayby tells the story of a straight hot yoga stctor named Jenn and her bt iend Matt, a gay ic-book wrer. The talog also clus h movi like "Brokeback Mounta, " "The Kids are Alright, " and "Pri, " which is based on a lser-known te story about a group of gay and lbian activists who supported Welsh mers durg a strike the 1980s.
You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web In My Fay | Official Trailer [HD] | NetflixWatch onIn this documentary, a gay filmmaker shows his Che fay's road to acceptg him and his growg fay the Uned Stat. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Normal Heart | official trailer (2014) HBO Mark Ruffalo Jim ParsonsWatch onLarry Kramer's semi-tobgraphil drama to life this HBO film, tellg the story of the creatn of the Gay Men's Health Crisis at the height of the AIDS epimic. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web ERASED | Official Trailer | Foc FeaturWatch onTellg the te story of a young man who is subjected to a gay nversn therapy program, the film featur a number of LGBTQ+ intifyg stars, cludg Cherry Jon and Troye nowMy Own Private Idaho (1991)This ntent is imported om youTube.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Official Trailer #1 - Sean Penn Movie (2008) HDWatch onStarrg Sean Penn and Ee Hirsch, the 2008 movie tells the story of Harvey Milk, who beme inic the LGBTQ+ muny for beg the first openly gay person to be elected to California ernment. Owen Jon’s celebratn markg 20 years sce the excellent seri Queer as Folk was first televised (Journal, 28 Febary) suggts that was this groundbreakg programme that transformed gay reprentatn on Brish fact, the radil change happened the 1980s on Channel 4. It ran between 1989 and 1994 and was the culmatn of work done by a lot of lbians and gay men – mpaigners, journalists, dividuals and a very small number of workg televisn – for more posive and more regular reprentatn of on journey towards airg the programm was a bumpy ri – volvg qutns parliament, a mpaign by anti-permissive-society activist Mary Whehoe and tabloid newspaper hysteria – and all unfold as part of the rponse of the gay and lbian muny to the Aids crisis and the dranian sectn 28 anti-gay groundbreakg productns that changed broadstg culture happened across more than a om C4’s ceptn 1982.
The rpons of the lns of lbians and gay men who watched the programm were much like Owen’s “joyful revelatn” impact broadstg was felt at the BBC, which started to missn s own gay and lbian seri, and the groundwork was laid for all the wonrful dramas and documentari that followed later years, cludg Queer as Folk.