0.0Gay 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
Michael Atwell
Self, presenter
1. Security Vetting and Gays in the Civil Service
2. Male Gay Lifestyles
3. Child Custody and Adoption
4. Police Harassment and Entrapment of Gay Men
5. Gay Relationships and Gay Weddings
6. Gay Teachers
7. Gays in Heterosexual Marriages
8. Gays and Media Stereotyping
9. Young Lesbians
10. Gays in the Armed Forces
11. Gay Political Organisation
12. 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.
13. 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.
