Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin was created by Danish author Susanne Bosche as a resource to facilitate discussion with children about homosexuality . To the British media, it was nothing more than a homosexual recruiting manual that sought to … Continue reading →
Watch Out, There’s a Thief About, was a well-known anti-crime slogan in the UK throughout the 1970’s and 80’s. It was fitting, then, that the Gay Video Project appropriated it for their project that documented the extent of police belligerence … Continue reading →
The 1980s saw a new expression added to the English language – ‘gender bender’. The concept itself – adopting some dress codes of the opposite sex, as opposed to straightforward cross-dressing – was far from new. Marlene Dietrich had done … Continue reading →
Britain’s Granada TV brought Evelyn Waugh’s inter-war tale of upper class decadence and dysfunction to the small screen in a lavish production in 1981. Set against a backdrop of glamorous locations and well-appointed mansions, the series followed the life and … Continue reading →
The Celluloid Closet grew out of Vito Russo’s work as a gay activist and film historian. In the early 70’s he put together a presentation based on clips from movies that featured homosexual characters or themes. He toured the USA … Continue reading →