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Gay Life

Season 1 · 13 episodes · Feb 10, 1980

  1. Episode 1

    Security Vetting and Gays in the Civil Service

    Feb 10, 1980

  2. Episode 2

    Male Gay Lifestyles

    Feb 17, 1980

  3. Episode 3

    Child Custody and Adoption

    Feb 24, 1980

  4. Episode 4

    Police Harassment and Entrapment of Gay Men

    Mar 2, 1980

  5. Episode 5

    Gay Relationships and Gay Weddings

    Mar 9, 1980

  6. Episode 6

    Gay Teachers

    Mar 16, 1980

  7. Episode 7

    Gays in Heterosexual Marriages

    Mar 23, 1980

  8. Episode 8

    Gays and Media Stereotyping

    Mar 30, 1980

  9. Episode 9

    Young Lesbians

    Apr 20, 1980

  10. Episode 10

    Gays in the Armed Forces

    Apr 27, 1980

  11. Episode 11

    Gay Political Organisation

    May 4, 1980

  12. Episode 12

    Being Gay in the Thirties

    Jun 7, 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.

  13. Episode 13

    Male Sexuality

    Jun 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.