The Gay Rights Movement – A New BBC Archive

The latest collection on the BBC archive website charts the corporation’s coverage of gay rights issues. There are thirty segments from both radio and television that range from news reports to discussion programmes and documentaries.

It is fun to watch the Conservative MP Ray Mawby out of his depth and spouting off the sort of nonsense that the Daily Mail likes to scare its readership with: the dangers of promoting homosexuality, the need to protect children from homosexual predators, and the idea that if you allow homosexuality you may as well endorse incest.

Outing homosexuals in Uganda and a call for hangings.

On the insane homophobia in the political landscape of Uganda, and its unacceptable call to murder all homosexuals, etc.

This is selective Christianity at work again: they hunt and peck through the Bible finding quotes that support their prejudices, and in so doing find them.

To support Ugandan execution law, ex-gay ‘authorities’ from the US have been quoted..

The ex-gay fiction is again on the front line as the Ugandan government plan to introduce legislation that will extend their already draconian laws against homosexuality to include execution.

Rachel Maddow did an excellent job of taking down an ex-gay author Richard Cohen.