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  • People were not happy about the “grilling” Rupert Everett got about his sexuality by John Humphrys

    People were not happy about the “grilling” Rupert Everett got about his sexuality by John Humphrys

    Radio 4’s John Humphrys “relentlessly grills” actor Rupert Everett about being gay and then asks: “Do you think there will ever come a time when you can do an interview and being gay doesn’t even come up?” – People were not happy.

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    Not a day seemingly goes by when Radio 4’s Today programme and John Humphrys, one of the BBC’s highest-paid talents, trends on Twitter for some reason or another. Today however people were not happy that Humphrys pressed Rupert Everett, who was in the studio to discuss his new film about gay icon, Oscar Wilde, on the actor’s sexuality – even asking Everett if he regretted coming out as gay.

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    People were not happy.

     

     

    Responding to the interview, A BBC spokesperson said, “Since this interview centred around Rupert Everett’s portrayal of, and long-standing interest in, Oscar Wilde, it was not inappropriate to draw parallels between the two men and their experiences of being gay at different points in history.”

  • RADIO | Coming Out From The Shadows, BBC Radio 4

    Coming Out From The Shadows

    Broadcaster: BBC Radio 4

    Broadcast Date: TBC

    On the 50th Anniversary of the groundbreaking 1967 Sexual Offences Act, the campaigner Peter Tatchell takes a sceptical look at its impact on Britain’s gay communities.  Although it was a major staging post in the long and tortuous fight for the decriminalisation of male homosexual behaviour in Britain, Peter will show that in the years immediately were far from friendly towards homosexuality: for example, convictions of men for same-sex offences increased dramatically. Peter will go on to examine discrimination against homosexuals in areas such as employment and housing in the 1970s, and he revisits the fierce battles in the 1990s for the reduction of the age of consent for homosexuals from 21 to 16.

    Drawing on extensive archive from the last fifty years, Peter will chronicle the continuing struggle for equal rights for Britain’s LGBTQ communities – a story that takes us right up to 2017.

  • RADIO | Queer Britain, BBC Radio 4

    Queer Britain

    Broadcast Date: TBC

    Val McDermid presents the story of British homosexuality running up to the landmark Sexual Offences Act of 1967.  Using ground-breaking work from a new wave of young historians, this series brings a new perspective to the history of homosexuality, exploring the many ways that the LGBTQ community was accepted, tolerated, despised and ostracised, and how this was reflected across culture, society and politics.

  • RADIO | Queer Icons, BBC Radio 4

    BBC Radio Four presents: Queer Icons

    Broadcast date: TBC

    Front Row is marking the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation with a landmark project, Queer Icons. 50 leading figures will choose an LGBTQ artwork that is special to them.  

    From the ancient Greek poetry of Sappho to the Oscar-winning film Moonlight, from the music of George Michael to the plays of Oscar Wilde, they will explore the works of art throughout history that have expressed what it is to be gay or queer. 

    These short pieces will be broadcast on Front Row and on other Radio 4 programmes in July, and will be collected together online.