Queers
Programme Length: 15 mins x8
Broadcaster: BBC 4
Broadcast Date: TBC
Eight new and established writers respond to the 50thย anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act in Queers, a series of monologues curated by Mark Gatiss.
Focussing chieflyย on the gay maleย experience, the monologues begin in 1917 with ‘The Man on the Platform’ – the story of aย soldierย returning from the trenches of the First World War and reflecting on both his attraction to another man and a very particular childhood memory. Other stories include Jackie Clune’s ‘Aย Perfect Gentleman’ in which we meet Bobby, aย dandyย with a very unexpected secret and Brian Fillis’ More Anger’ which examines the journey of a young gay actor in the 1980s.
Taking in 1957’s Wolfenden Report, the HIV crisis and the 1967 Sexual Offences Act itself, these 15 minute monologues will mark and celebrate some of the most poignant, funny, entertaining, tragic and riotous momentsย before and after the ’67 Actย and the very personal rites-of-passage of British gay men through the last 100 years.
Queers is being produced in partnership with The Old Vic who will stage all eight of the monologues in July, in the run up to the television transmission.
