Tag: BBC
I Should Be Holding A Hand But Instead I’m Holding Shame
The BBC Social is a new digital content stream featuring content for and created by young people in Scotland. This particular one offers a powerful commentary on the choices gay people are still forced to make in public – whether to hold hands, show affection, or give a partner a good-bye kiss. Take a moment to stop…
A Very English Scandal
It would be A Very English Scandal if Hugh Grant used to be the ex-lover of every one’s favorite openly gay actor Ben Wishaw. BUT this is fiction and although it is based on real life, it’s not their story but that of the ‘straight’ married Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe. He was charged with…
Sweet Sixteen : A Transgender Story
It takes an amazing amount of courage for any person to start the journey to transition into their true gender, but it’s almost impossible to imagine how much harder it must be when you are a 15 year old and the only child of a farming couple in rural Wales. This is subject of a…
Ben Whishaw Falls In Love
The UK’s BBC TV Channel have just announced that out gay actor Ben Whishaw is to star in a new spy/gay romance miniseries next month called ‘London Spy’. It is the story of a chance romance between two people from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from…
Boy Meets Girl : a new groundbreaking BBC sitcom
The B.B.C., the public service broadcaster of the UK and in fact the world’s oldest national broadcasting organisation, has an unimpeachable record for not just being one of the most reliable source for news, but also one that is always at the forefront of chronicling the major changes in our society and culture. It’s announcement…
