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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.
Michael Atwell
London Weekend Television
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Feb 10, 1980
Feb 17, 1980
Feb 24, 1980
Mar 2, 1980
Mar 9, 1980
Mar 16, 1980
Mar 23, 1980
Mar 30, 1980
Apr 20, 1980
Apr 27, 1980
May 4, 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.
Jun 7, 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.
Jun 16, 1980
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