Gay Life
Season 1 • Episode 12: Being Gay in the Thirties • Watch with subtitles
Episode 12: Being Gay in the Thirties
June 7, 1980
Gifford Skinner describes what it was like to be a gay man in the 1930s. Illuminating and nostalgic, Gifford recalls picking up guardsmen in Hyde Park as well as some of the homosexual ‘characters’ he encountered in London’s West End. The gay activist, historian and sociologist Jeffrey Weeks is interviewed about gay law reform.
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