Air Date
February 10, 1980
Episodes
13 episodes
Gay Life
Season 1
Episodes
1. Security Vetting and Gays in the Civil Service
February 10, 1980
2. Male Gay Lifestyles
February 17, 1980
3. Child Custody and Adoption
February 24, 1980
4. Police Harassment and Entrapment of Gay Men
March 2, 1980
5. Gay Relationships and Gay Weddings
March 9, 1980
6. Gay Teachers
March 16, 1980
7. Gays in Heterosexual Marriages
March 23, 1980
8. Gays and Media Stereotyping
March 30, 1980
9. Young Lesbians
April 20, 1980
10. Gays in the Armed Forces
April 27, 1980
11. Gay Political Organisation
May 4, 1980
12. Being Gay in the Thirties
June 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. Male Sexuality
June 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.
