Michael Atwell
Director
Gay Life (1980)
Season 1
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.
Released Feb. 10, 1980
Episode 42 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.lgbt-activism, tmdb.lgbt-rights, imdb.homosexuality, imdb.homosexual-history, imdb.homosexual, imdb.lesbian-interest, imdb.lesbian + 2 more, imdb.gay-interest, imdb.gay
Production Companies: LWT
Network: London Weekend Television
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Security Vetting and Gays in the Civil Service
Feb. 10, 1980, midnight
S1E2 - Male Gay Lifestyles
Feb. 17, 1980, midnight
S1E3 - Child Custody and Adoption
Feb. 24, 1980, midnight
S1E4 - Police Harassment and Entrapment of Gay Men
March 2, 1980, midnight
S1E5 - Gay Relationships and Gay Weddings
March 9, 1980, midnight
S1E6 - Gay Teachers
March 16, 1980, midnight
S1E7 - Gays in Heterosexual Marriages
March 23, 1980, midnight
S1E8 - Gays and Media Stereotyping
March 30, 1980, midnight
S1E9 - Young Lesbians
April 20, 1980, midnight
S1E10 - Gays in the Armed Forces
April 27, 1980, midnight
S1E11 - Gay Political Organisation
May 4, 1980, midnight
S1E12 - Being Gay in the Thirties
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.
June 7, 1980, midnight
S1E13 - Male Sexuality
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.
June 16, 1980, midnight
London Weekend Television
42 min/ep
42 min
Feb. 10, 1980
June 16, 1980, midnight
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