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Gay Life

Gay Life

1980
Documentary

Season

1
13 - Male Sexuality
Jun. 16,1980

From clubbers at Heaven and cruisers on Hampstead Heath to academics and journalists, gay men offer their candid views on sex and relationships. They give a brief history of cruising, rue the dashed hopes of Gay Lib, and, most interestingly, critique the goal of emulating the traditionally masculine ideal of the heterosexual man, a self-loathing trait still prevalent among gay men today.
12 - Being Gay in the Thirties
Jun. 07,1980

Gifford Skinner describes what it was like to be a gay man in the 1930s. Illuminating and nostalgic, Gifford recalls picking up guardsmen in Hyde Park as well as some of the homosexual ‘characters’ he encountered in London’s West End. The gay activist, historian and sociologist Jeffrey Weeks is interviewed about gay law reform.
11 - Gay Political Organisation
May. 04,1980
10 - Gays in the Armed Forces
Apr. 27,1980
9 - Young Lesbians
Apr. 20,1980
8 - Gays and Media Stereotyping
Mar. 30,1980
7 - Gays in Heterosexual Marriages
Mar. 23,1980
6 - Gay Teachers
Mar. 16,1980
5 - Gay Relationships and Gay Weddings
Mar. 09,1980
4 - Police Harassment and Entrapment of Gay Men
Mar. 02,1980
3 - Child Custody and Adoption
Feb. 24,1980
2 - Male Gay Lifestyles
Feb. 17,1980
1 - Security Vetting and Gays in the Civil Service
Feb. 10,1980

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Gay Life was a groundbreaking documentary series on London Weekend Television, produced by its London Minorities Unit. Broadcast in 1980, it may have then been the first series devoted to LGBT people and issues on a major television network.

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