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词条 Gay Life (TV series)
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  1. Specific episodes

  2. References

  3. External links

{{italic title}}{{Use British English|date=June 2015}}{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}Gay Life was a television programme broadcast by London Weekend Television (LWT) in 1980 and 1981.[1] It was produced by Michael Atwell at LWT's Minorities Unit and was the United Kingdom's LGBT television series.[2][3]

Gay himself, Atwell said that the programme could claim to be "the first time in the world that a major national TV company has given a whole series to gays". Three members of Gay Life's production team were gay and Atwell said the staff felt that they were "in a sense trying to ride two horses – putting forward the gay viewpoint and relating to non-gay people".[1] Gay Life was broadcast late on a Sunday evening in the London region, and was first shown on 11 February 1980 at 11:30 pm.[1] Notable contributors included comedian Graham Chapman, who spoke of his experience as a gay parent in the February 24 episode.[4]

The debut episode was reviewed by John Russell Taylor in the following week's issue of Gay News.[1][5] In his essay "Something for Everyone" included in the critical theory book Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics edited by Glyn Davis and Gary Needham, Gregory Woods wrote that Taylor's review had raised "basic but crucial questions that would keep cropping up in relation to gay television programmes for the next two decades". Taylor's questions concerned the visibility of men in drag and leather who because of their frequent appearances as representative of the gay community in news reports "led the straight media to treat gayness as extraordinary, and therefore had to seek out vivid representatives of it in order to confirm their own per-constructed idea of it" and also his belief that the programme may adopt divided aims in an attempt to appeal to both "uncomprehending straights" and its desire to "preach to the converted".[1]

Richard Ingrams negatively reviewed the 10 July 1981 episode of Gay Life as the television critic for The Spectator. In his column he wrote that "I at last managed to catch up with the lesbians on Sunday, and about time too is all that I can say". The episode discussed artificial insemination of which Ingrams wrote that it was a "far more satisfactory method in many lesbian eyes because one can ensure that the donor is a suitable person—presumably a Guardian-reading Gay. Various mournful specimens were wheeled on to hail this Brave New World." Ingrams further criticised Gay Life by saying:
Nothing was said by anyone about the dangers involved in all these experiments in eugenics, the deliberate breeding of children—who are almost bound to grow up as neurotic misfits—simply to gratify the selfish urges of a lot of perverts. There might be someone at London Weekend Television who would see that even in our wonderful new permissive society there were good grounds for not allowing this sort of propaganda to be made without giving some indication of the perils attached
and concluded by writing:
A few years ago lesbians were rightly regarded as subjects for humour or else sympathy. Now, if people like LWT have their way, we are expected to treat them as a quasi-political movement with 'rights'. Most of this is the fault of the so-called Women's Movement, of which the lesbian activists are the extreme wing.[6]

Specific episodes

  • 10 February: Security Vetting and Gays in the Civil Service
  • 17 February: Male Gay Lifestyles – Pubs, Discos, Drag Acts, Leather Scene etc.
  • 24 February: Child Custody and Adoption
  • 2 March: Police Harassment and Entrapment of Gay Men
  • 9 March: Gay Relationships and Gay Weddings
  • 16 March: Gay Teachers
  • 23 March: Gays in Heterosexual Marriages
  • 30 March: Gays and Media Stereotyping
  • 20 April: Young Lesbians
  • 27 April: Gays in the Armed Forces
  • 4 May: Gay Political Organisation

As listed on Gay in the 80s.[5]

References

1. ^{{cite book|author1=Glyn Davis|author2=Gary Needham|title=Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwJ9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|date=3 December 2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-05856-3|pages=109–}}
2. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/moving-into-the-mainstream-1583853.html|title=Moving into the mainstream|author=David Benedict and John Lyttle|date=27 November 1995|work=The Independent|accessdate=26 June 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=History of lesbian, gay and bisexual equality|url=http://www.stonewall.org.uk/at_home/history_of_lesbian_gay_and_bisexual_equality/default.asp|work=History of lesbian, gay and bisexual equality|publisher=Stonewall|accessdate=23 August 2014}}{{unreliable source?|date=July 2015}}
4. ^{{cite book|author=Douglas McCall|title=Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969–2012|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTAFAgAAQBAJ|date=12 November 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-1311-6|page=75}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=1980. Television: Gay Life|url=http://www.gayinthe80s.com/2014/01/1980-television-gay-life/|work=Television|publisher=Gay in the 80s|accessdate=23 August 2014}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/11th-july-1981/26/television|title=Television|author=Richard Ingrams|date=10 July 1981|work=The Spectator|accessdate=26 June 2015}}

External links

{{Portal|LGBT|Television}}
  • {{IMDb title|4871456}}
  • Gay Life at the British Film Institute

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