Gay Life (1980)
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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Seasons & Episode
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Episode 1 - Security Vetting and Gays in the Civil Service
February. 10,1980
Episode 2 - Male Gay Lifestyles
February. 17,1980
Episode 3 - Child Custody and Adoption
February. 24,1980
Episode 4 - Police Harassment and Entrapment of Gay Men
March. 02,1980
Episode 5 - Gay Relationships and Gay Weddings
March. 09,1980
Episode 6 - Gay Teachers
March. 16,1980
Episode 7 - Gays in Heterosexual Marriages
March. 23,1980
Episode 8 - Gays and Media Stereotyping
March. 30,1980
Episode 9 - Young Lesbians
April. 20,1980
Episode 10 - Gays in the Armed Forces
April. 27,1980
Episode 11 - Gay Political Organisation
May. 04,1980
Episode 12 - Being Gay in the Thirties
June. 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.
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