Gay Life Season 1

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Season 1

Air date: 1980-02-10

Episodes: 13

Episodes

E1: Security Vetting and Gays in the Civil Service

Air date: 1980-02-10

E2: Male Gay Lifestyles

Air date: 1980-02-17

E3: Child Custody and Adoption

Air date: 1980-02-24

E4: Police Harassment and Entrapment of Gay Men

Air date: 1980-03-02

E5: Gay Relationships and Gay Weddings

Air date: 1980-03-09

E6: Gay Teachers

Air date: 1980-03-16

E7: Gays in Heterosexual Marriages

Air date: 1980-03-23

E8: Gays and Media Stereotyping

Air date: 1980-03-30

E9: Young Lesbians

Air date: 1980-04-20

E10: Gays in the Armed Forces

Air date: 1980-04-27

E11: Gay Political Organisation

Air date: 1980-05-04

E12: 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.

Air date: 1980-06-07

E13: 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.

Air date: 1980-06-16