Saturday, 2 October 2010

BBC Online Archive: The Gay Rights Collection

The BBC Archive online has just added 'The Gay Rights Collection: The campaign for sexual equality'.
"In this collection, we chart the story so far for gay and lesbian equality in the UK. Many of the programmes reflect the language common at the time when they were first broadcast and illustrate the changing attitudes towards homosexuality in the last 50 years."
There are initially 30 radio and television broadcasts available including:
A 1957 press conference with John Wolfenden.
'Male Homosexual' - a 1965 radio programme containing interviews with gay men.
'Man Alive' - the two part BBC TV documentary on lesbians and gay men from 1967.
'Inside Story: Coming Out' - preparing for London Gay Pride in 1979.
'Open To Question' - on Justin Fashanu's coming out in 1992 as the first out professional footballer.
A report on Gay Pride from 1993 by Michael Gove - yes, the Michael Gove who's now the Conservative Education Minister!
'Breakfast With Frost' - Ian McKellen talks about the effects of Section 28 in 1994.
And a BBC TV News report on the first civil partnership in 2005.
Enjoy!

2 comments:

  1. I hope they add The Gay Rock & Roll Years - a very funny history of gay Britain since the 50s, told with TV archive footage and popular music hits of the day...

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