Gay Culture

Queers will consist of eight monologues to be staged at The Old Vic in London, before airing on BBC Four this July.



Gay Times cover star Russell Tovey, Ben Whishaw, Alan Cumming, Gemma
Whelan and Ian Gelder are among the impressive cast of actors who will
feature across the series of 15-minute pieces.



Queers has been curated and directed by Mark Gatiss and will take a look
 back at the LGBT+ community in Britain over the past 100 years. It will
 be broadcast as part of the BBC’s Gay Britannia season.



The series is being staged and aired in July to coincide with the 50th
anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act, which partially decriminalised
homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967.

Ben Whishaw will play a soldier returning from the trenches in The Man
on the Platform, while Russell Tovey will take on the role of a gay
actor in the 1980s for More Anger.



Rebecca Front will deal with the issue of marriage in Missing Alice,
while Alan Cumming will reflect upon gay marriage in modern Britain in
Something Borrowed.



Game of Thrones star Gemma Whelan , Black Mirror’s Kadiff Kirwan, Ian
Gelder (Snatch) and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) will appear respectively
in A Perfect Gentleman, Safest Spot in Town, I Miss the War and A Grand
Day Out.



Each 15-minute monologue will examine the very different attitudes, as
well as the social changes to gay men’s life throughout the 20th
Century.



The plays that make up Queers are written by Matthew Baldwin, Jon
Bradfield, Michael Dennis, Keith Jarrett, and Gareth McLean, who are
writing for television for the first time.



Further contributions come from established screenwriters Jackie Clune, Brian Fillis and Mark Gatiss himself.




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