LGBT Britain

Innuendo-laden crime caper, a star vehicle for Manchester-based drag queen Bunny Lewis

This edition of LWT's pioneering 1980s TV series looks at gay experience 50 years earlier

"I'm no man-hater": lesbian women discuss their lives, relationships and struggles against discrimination in this TV doc

Gay men discuss sexuality, masculinity and relationships in a documentary filmed just before the outbreak of AIDS.

A risqué music hall ditty uncovers the pioneering gender-bending ways of 1930s young things

A budding gay filmmaker clashes with his conservative Muslim father as they work on a film about iconic Indian star Sabu

Filmed at the time Hockney was painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, this compelling study concentrates on the textures and light which surround the artist in his home and studio.

Percy drags up to scoop the top prize in this Edwardian short - but will he be found out?

Jiu-jitsu for ladies, how to get ink off a white apron and other life essentials courtesy of the 'Hints and Hobbies' team.

Queer activist and artist Ajamu prepares to leave Brixton for an exhibition of his work in his hometown, Huddersfield

A young Sinéad O'Connor pops up in the first of a two-part This Week special about the spread of AIDS

Government complacency is challenged in the second of a two-part This Week special on the spread of AIDS

The LGBT current affairs series visits the new Heaven nightclub, contrasting it with other parts of London’s gay scene.

Affectionate tribute to the camp comedian Larry Grayson, with showbiz friends and highlights from his TV career

Peter Wyngarde plays the gay British diplomat turned Irish nationalist, executed for treason in 1916

A meditation on transcience, trauma and taboo in the cruel wake of the AIDS epidemic

A fascinating and important film on attitudes towards homosexuality, and what it was like to be gay, shortly after it was partially legalised.

A straight woman and a gay man cruise their way across North East England in this Tennessee Williams-inspired short.

A suicidal teen and an openly gay youth strike up an unlikely rapport in a foster home

Effeminate fisticuffs from the French in this boxing-themed send-up of foreign stereotypes.

The queer alphabet - from AC/DC to Zipper.

Derek Jarman features in this touching documentary about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

An intimate account of frustration and disarray in 1980s Britain from the point of view of a young woman.

Against the odds, same sex couples in Oxford get the right to register for council housing, but for how long?

Gay women from different generations discuss their experiences in this revealing TV documentary

A far reaching interview with multifaceted artist Derek Jarman, conducted in 1987 by producer and critic Simon Field as part of the ICA Guardian Conversations series.

Compelling play by the writer of Chariots of Fire, exposing homophobic bullying in a northern secondary modern.

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas and anxieties of her life.

A gently meandering home movie tour of London, with rare shots of an early Gay Pride march.

Two AIDS sufferers recount their experiences battling the disease and society's misconceptions.

Peter Wyngarde stars in the earliest surviving gay-themed British television drama, set on a Deep South plantation.

Join the original Naked Civil Servant in his London bedsit for a lesson on life, love and gender politics

Gripping TV recreation of Wilde's 1895 trial for gross indecency, starring Micheál MacLiammóir.

A vertiginous lesbian kiss in a mountain cablecar inspired by German expressionism.

Poetic reflection on Oscar Wilde’s testimony at his 1895 trial for gross indecency

The Campaign for Homosexual Equality is given airtime in the first ever community access series on British TV

A homoerotic homage to Genet and Lautréamont with an angel and a hermaphrodite.