On this day in 1987, the UK’s Channel Four broadcast AIDS: The Unheard Voices, as one of it’s Dispatches series. [You can watch the programme at the end of this post.] The documentary’s main focus was Professor Peter Duesberg who … Continue reading →
Out on Tuesday was Channel Four’s attempt at a queer lifestyle series in the 1980s. On New Year’s Day 1983 it had screened a one-off, magazine style programme One in Five. Somewhat predictably, Conservative MPs were outraged by it. Nonetheless … Continue reading →
Since its launch in 1982, Britain’s Channel Four took the lead in the representation of LGBT people and their interests on television. Needless to say this did not come without some considerable opposition in the midst of Margaret Thatcher’s buttoned-down … Continue reading →
When Britain’s Channel Four was established in 1982 it had a specific brief to cater for the needs of those populations not catered for by the other television channels. As far as the LGBT population was concerned, it tried to … Continue reading →