ChanneL 4 - HomosexualitY LegalisatioN
Channel 4 will show the Clapham Junction film this August to mark the passing of the Sexual Offences Act, allowing homosexuality between two people aged 21. In the debate then-home secretary Roy Jenkins famously said: "Those who suffer from this disability carry a great weight of shame all their lives." The film is currently being cast - with leading actors including actors Mark Strong, Rupert Graves and Benedict Cumberbatch currently linked to the project - and will be accompanied by a week of programming around gay themes.
The centrepiece of the season - to be shown this summer to mark the 40th anniversary of the legalisation of homosexuality - will be a film charting 36 hours in the life of seven gay men who frequent Clapham Common for sex.
Clapham Junction, written by Kevin Elyot, will feature graphic scenes of sex as well as attacks on gay men on the common, famous as a gay pick-up venue ever since then-Wales secretary Ron Davies' "moment of madness" incident in 1998. The season is also expected to include a dramatic reconstruction of a man being tried in the 1960's for his sexuality. A raft of documentaries is also planned. "Though homosexuality would seem to be more accepted and legitimised through civil partnerships, there still seems to be a disturbing amount of homophobic violence and homophobic attitudes sometimes coming from surprising quarters," said Elyot,
Elyot is best known as the author of the Olivier award-winning 1995 play My Night with Reg about a group of gay men dealing with Aids.
I personally do not have a problem with gay people, becauase at the end of the day it is their choice about whether they prefer males or females, right? Im glad that Channel 4 will be broadcasting this film/documentary as many people need to learn that there is nothing wrong with being a 'homosexual' and that this desire for the same sex is contagious! It is a shame, however, that documentaries like these could not have been relased sooner as im sure that the number of homophobic hate crime would decrease signficantly from 1,359 ( that was the figure in the last 12 months!!) Anyway, people do always say that homophobic people are the ones who are actually gay, so for all you out there that despise gay people, keep that in mind!
posted by Dinni @ 10:23 am
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