Gay Life

February. 10,1980

Rating：

7.4

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Trailer Synopsis

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.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 1980

13 Episode

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.

Episode 13 - Male Sexuality

June. 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.

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