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Airdate: Rupert Everett: 50 Shades of Gay

In this doco Rupert Everett meets LGBT Brits who have lived through an era of remarkable change.

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SBS VICELAND screens a 2017 documentary Rupert Everett: 50 Shades of Gay in which the actor and writer meets LGBT Brits who have lived through an era of remarkable change.

This has been available On Demand since September but is a broadcast premiere.

2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the legalisation of homosexuality in the UK (the 1967 Sexual Offences Act was given royal assent on 27th July of that year) – a great leap forward for tolerance and equality. But while the country basks in self-congratulation, one gay man – Rupert Everett – wants to ask some uncomfortable questions about what was lost, as well as gained, when gay men and women could finally step out from the closet.

In this documentary, Rupert is going to meet a cast of LGBT men and women to chart some of the changes that have taken place in gay life and gay culture over the last fifty years. From the men in their eighties who frequented the underground gay clubs of Soho and cottaged with palace guards, to young transgender people coming out as the ‘only trans in the village’ in rural Britain, the cast will exemplify something about the gay experience in the different eras of LGBT visibility, from gay bashing to the AIDS crisis to the first ‘gaybies’.

Tuesday, 8 May at 10.20pm on SBS VICELAND

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  1. I gotta be honest, I’m still stunned that I now live in a country where same sex marriage is legal. I never dreamed it would happen in my lifetime growing up or even ten years ago. It’s important to acknowledge the fights and the sacrifices that have been made to bring us to this point so I’m looking forward to this docco.

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