All language subtitles for BBC.Storyville.2017.Queerama.1080p.x265.AAC.MVGroup.org_Legendas01.ENG

About one person in 20 of
both sexes is homosexual.

On any busy street, you pass
half a dozen every five minutes,

because, contrary to popular opinion,

most of them don't look any
different from anyone else.

People can only tell the obvious ones,
but they are a tiny minority.

- # For TC and his Honeybear

# The world will not stop moving

# For rendezvous and longing stares

# And hearts that won't stop burning

# Before that Honeybear had given up

# He felt so sad and lonely

# Then one night he looked up and he
saw

# He saw his one and only

# When TC came onto the scene

# He entered in on golden wings

# And with him he brought butterflies

# Of crimson red and emerald green

# Cos before TC Honeybear was waiting

# Was waiting for him patiently

# TC took his fear away

# Became his one and only... #

- REPORTER:
- Homosexuals usually live two lives,

one of which is completely concealed

from their family and colleagues.

- No-one knows, no.

- How would they react, if they did?

- They'd be tremendously shocked.

The reason is that I live a very
normal life...

..back home. And I really live two
lives -

one here, and one up north.

- It's estimated that one man in 20 is
a homosexual.

These men are a minority - they
receive minority treatment,

face prejudice and intolerance,

stand accused of depravity and vice.

- Whereas male homosexuality is a
crime in Britain,

female homosexuality is perfectly
legal.

Lesbians can be open about it.

- And yet, for women who love women,

unqualified acceptance by our society
still does not exist.

And so lesbians receive the minority
treatment -

intolerance, suspicion, often disgust.

- In the heterosexual world,

the homosexual disturbs conformist
values,

is shunned, and perhaps misunderstood.

Most homosexuals must lead a secret,
dark existence.

- # The world came crashing down on
them

# With all of its ferocity

# And Honeybear was terrified

# He said, do not take him, take me

# Before that Honeybear had given up

# He felt so sad and lonely... #

- I'll soon be back.

- Don't leave me here alone.

Where are you going?

- # Then one night he looked up and he
saw

# He saw his one and only

# And he said, please don't take him

# Cos I love him

# He's my joy

# And my life

# For my love I won't hesitate

# I will give him all that his heart
can take

# And I'll trust him fearlessly

# I want him to be free. #

- Among the ancient Greeks, it was
normal practice.

Socrates and Plato, the two greatest
of philosophers,

were both homosexual.

So was Alexander the Great.

Julius Caesar, a woman's man,

and every man's woman.

Many of the kings of England were
homosexual -

William Rufus, for instance, and
Edward II,

was the most notorious example.

Perhaps the two greatest artists of
all time were homosexual -

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

At home, romantic poets like Shelley
and Byron.

The biggest scandal surrounding a
British homosexual

blew up round Oscar Wilde.

- "The love that dare not speak its
name in this country

"in such a great affection of an elder
for a younger man,

"as there was between David and
Jonathan,

"such as Plato made the very basis of
his philosophy,

"and such as you will find

"in the sonnets of Michelangelo and
Shakespeare.

"It is that deep, spiritual affection,

"which is as pure as it is perfect.

"It is in this century so
misunderstood

"that it may be described as the love
that dare not speak its name.

"And on account of it,

"I am placed where I am now.

"It is beautiful, it is fine.

"It is the noblest form of affection."

- Are they born that way, or do they
become like it?

- Well, I don't think they are born
that way.

I think the damage is probably done
very early in infancy,

in some cases. Sometimes later.

The amount of sexual drive a person

has may certainly be decided partly
genetically,

but not its direction.

- # We could have skipped this part

# I could have taught you how to love
yourself

# I waited patiently

# I hoped that you would be the one to
come to me

# I tried to talk to you

# I thought that you would recognise
the need

# That you had deep inside

# But you had to get there by yourself

# I don't understand Help me, please

# Tell me everything and make me see

# You know that I would give you
anything

# I'd take away your pain Yeah, I'd
take away the stain

# I don't understand Help me, please

# Tell me everything and make me see

# You know that I would give you
anything

# I'd take away your pain and I'd take
away the stain... #

- Because lesbians are a
cross-section,

by the sheer law of averages

there are naturally many to be found
in those professions

which are predominantly staffed by
women,

like nursing and teaching.

Now, you're a schoolteacher and, as
you must know,

a tremendous number of parents

are really frightened at the idea that

their daughter might be taught by a
lesbian teacher.

What's your comment on that?

- Well, I suppose there is a danger,
in some cases.

But, um...

I mean, if there were... If there
was...

If this was...really dangerous, I
mean,

no man would be allowed to teach in a
girl's school,

and no-one's going to suggest that.

As far as I'm concerned,

my professional life and my private
life are utterly separate,

and have to be utterly separate.

- Do you feel any sexual attraction
for the girls you teach?

- None at all.

- # I don't understand Help me, please

# Tell me everything and make me see

# You know that I would give you
anything

# I'd take away your pain Yeah, I'd
take away the stain... #

- Recently I-I've seen some children -

very young children, three and four...

..even people I work with,

remark that, there's no question about
it,

these children will grow up to be
homosexual.

They're very sensitive, soft, warm,

gentle children,

in comparison to other children,
perhaps, of the same age,

who are brisk and rough and tumble.

One felt that there was something
there that...

was sympathetic.

- # Help me, please

# Why don't you come to me? #

- Once a girl is lesbian,

can anything be done to change that?

- I think so, if she's still fairly
young...

..and she's dissatisfied herself with
her way of life.

This depends terribly on how early the
damage was done,

how deep it goes...

..and basically, again, I suppose on
her own feelings about it.

- # I would give you anything

# I'd take away your pain Yeah, I'd
take away the stain

# I don't understand Help me, please

# Tell me everything and make me see

# You know that I would give you
anything

# I'd take away your pain, yeah, I'd
take away the stain. #

- UPBEAT JAZZ MUSIC

- You could talk to him.
- It's not a mother's job.

- He's always been a mother's boy.

- He never once forgot Mother's Day.

- You know, I don't remember him
bringing a single girl home

all the time I've known him.

- I knew there was something,

but I just couldn't put me finger on
it.

- Oh, come on, now, he was going to be
a bachelor, a celibate.

- Your son's not one of those, is he,
Hilda?

- PHONE RINGS

- Where's, um...

Jo?

- Couldn't she come? I'd so looked
forward to meeting her.

METAL CLANGS

- I tripped over the central heating.

I'm always falling over something. I
hope I haven't wrecked it.

- MELANCHOLY TRUMPET PLAYS

- # I've felt uncomfortable

# Since the day that I was born

# Since the day I glimpsed the black
abyss in your eyes

# There's no way you could make all of
this shit up on your own

# It could only come from the
mastermind of lies... #

- My parents weren't affectionate.

I always grew up with a dislike for my
father.

Consequently, a tremendous attachment
to my mother.

- You know, there's nothing wrong
about that young man of mine

that a good woman won't cure.

- May the Lord be in your heart and on
your lips, that you may,

with truth and humility, confess all
your sins

in the name of the Father and of the
Son and the Holy Ghost.

- # I can't believe that I've
considered taking my own life

# Cos I believed the lies about me
were the truth...

- I pray, Father, give me your
blessing.

- # It will be magic to watch your
transformation

# When you realise that you've been
had

# It's enough to make a guy like me
feel sad...

- Yes, Sister.

- # Cos you tell me that Jesus

# He hates fruit loops, son

# We told you that when you were young

# Or pretty much anything you want him
to

# Like sitcoms, paedophiles and
kangaroos

# Morons who cut in line

# Three-bean salad and parking fines

# And when we win this war on society

# I hope your blind eyes will be
opened and you'll see

# The arrogance it takes to walk
around in the world the way you do

# It turns my brain to jelly every
time

# The rage and fear I'm feeling have
begun to make me sick

# And I think that I might be about to
commit a crime

# And you tell me that Jesus

# He hates homos, son

# We told you that when you were
young... #

- Men?

You look like a couple of queers.

- Ah, don't take any notice of what
Dot said.

I tell you, she had me worried for a
minute, though.

- Just because our Arthur's marriage
hasn't gone right yet,

you've no call to talk about him being
queer.

- It's ridiculous...

..innit?

- No!

- Suppose there was - is that
something to get at a lad for?

- Well, it's not normal, is it?

- Where you going?

- I'm going to get a refill for my
lipstick.

- Pray, Father, give me your blessing.

It is three weeks since my last
confession,

and I accuse myself of...

dishonouring my parents, many times.

- # Cos Jesus, he hates faggots, son

# We told you that when you were young

# Or pretty much any one you want him
to

# Like niggers, spics, redskins and
kikes, men who... #

- I don't know what's the matter with
you. You ain't normal.

- Aren't we getting off the subject?

- Shut up.

- # And when we win the war on
society... #

- What the fuck is your problem?!

- # I hope your blind eyes will be
opened and you'll see. #

- Nature would have done it,

and a father should help and protect a
lad like that,

not turn on him like the mob would
when it sees somebody different.

- When, in the end, the penny dropped,
how did you react?

- With relief more than anything.

Relief at knowing...

At being certain, at last,

what I was, and how I fitted in.

I think uncertainty, not knowing what
you are,

not knowing how you fit into society,

this is the worst thing of all.

- REPORTER: The mother of one of the
lesbians

who has appeared in this programme,

told me how she discovered that her
daughter was homosexual.

How did you react at the time? What
did you feel?

- Oh, well at first, terrific shock.

And...fear, to a certain extent.

Not for ourselves, and not for what
people would think, really,

but fear for her, what she'd have to
face in her future life.

I think that was the worst part about
it.

- A minority of lesbians can be
recognised as such.

This 19-year-old girl has worn nothing
but boys' clothes

for some years.

- Well...

..I was brought up with boys - I've
got no sisters.

I think I was more or less a tomboy

from the start, from a very early age.

- How do the shop assistants react

when you walk in to buy men's clothes?

- Well, nine times out of ten, they
don't know that I'm a girl.

But there is the odd occasion where
I've gone into a shop

and they've said, you know, "Yes,
sir?"

And then somebody's said, "Is that a
girl?"

- Good morning, sir.

Oh, good morning, miss.

- Good morning. A red rose, please.

- There.

- Thank you.
- Thanks.

- Oh, good morning, Kate.
- Good morning, sir.

- Could I have a buttonhole?
- Well, I haven't got any...

A few violets?

- Oh, that'll do nicely. Do you mind
if I pay you on Saturday?

- HE GIGGLES

- Strewth.

What do you make of that, Sam?

- Well, boys will be girls, and girls
will be boys!

- # Stranger

# When you look at me

# Eyes strong as steel

# Light as day

# Born a mystery

# You're the in-between

# Boy or girl

# Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh

# Wilder

# Than I've known before

# Fire rushes through

# Every vein

# With a smile that sings

# You'll be killing me

# Tenderly

# Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh

# Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh ooh

# Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh

# Every word

# Is soft as fur

# I'm drifting deeper... #

- Yes?

- Get in there. Come on, move!

Crisp, sir.
- Sit down.

Your hair's dyed.

- Yes, sir.

- A man dyeing his hair is a sign of
sexual perversion.

- # Ooh-ooh ooh

# Stranger, will you remember?

# Stranger, make me

# Remember you... #

- I am Doctor Crow.

You are surprised?

- Yes, I am!

I expected you to be a man.

Or a woman.

- I am both,

with the combined mental and physical
endowments

of both man and woman.

- You must have great difficulty with
your clothes.

- Do you read your Bible?

- Not constantly.

- "Male and female created he them."

- Male and female created he me.

- Steve Rogers and her girlfriend

don't often walk down the street for
pleasure.

There's too much risk involved.

Risk of public mockery, undisguised
amazement, crude jokes.

Many lesbians, of course, aren't so
aggressively masculine as Steve,

and for them, it's not so bad.

But for Steve, who's 24,

and whose whole instinct cries out to
her to feel and act like a man,

her appearance makes her constantly
vulnerable.

- When I was 15, no, 16, sorry,

I met this girl and, um...

I was with her for six months, and I
got engaged to her.

I really forgot that I was a woman.

And she thought she was pregnant.

Because there's some things that a
lesbian can use,

and I got away with using one of
those.

- And she never discovered...?
- And she didn't know the difference,
no.

The next thing I know, her mother kept
on about us getting married.

So I thought, "Oh, I better get out of
it,"

you know, cos I knew I couldn't get
married to her.

And... So then I hopped it,

and the next thing I know, the police
are after me.

The girl thinks she's pregnant

and they're taking me to court for
breach of promise and that.

They took me to court, and then it all
came out, that I was a girl.

- No cure has yet been found for the
homosexual condition.

Perhaps none ever will.

But I asked homosexuals

if they would still choose to remain
homosexuals,

if they had the opportunity to change.

- No. The society being what it is, I
would be heterosexual.

- If you could live life all over
again and could choose,

would you choose to be a homosexual?

- Not unless it was thrust upon me, as
it has been...

..by the fact that I am, and there's
nothing I can do about it,

heaven knows I've tried. Erm...

No, there's absolutely no advantage in
being a homosexual

in a heterosexual world, obviously.

And there's no happiness, really.

- # You just want to live your life

# The best way you know how

# But they keep on telling you

# That you are not allowed

# They say you are sick

# That you should hang your head in
shame

# They are pointing fingers

# And want you to take the blame... #

- A brain specialist?
- Psychiatrist.

- I thought as much.

You want to psychoanalyse me, don't
you?

You want to look inside my brain and
see how the wheels go around.

- Now, wait a moment, Frere...

- Dissect me like a guinea pig.

Then show me off to your distinguished
colleagues

as an interesting case.

That's it, isn't it?

- Hardly, but it's possible that I may
be able to help you.

- Perhaps you'll have a case history
that'll make your complexes stand

on end, and you can write a big, fat
book all about it, eh?

- HE LAUGHS MOCKINGLY

# This pain

# It is a glacier moving through
you... #

- Doctors, more than most people,

should perhaps understand what causes
men to be homosexual.

This man is a doctor, but he's also a
homosexual.

- It just makes you feel, well, you'd
just as well be in prison,

because it's a sort of prison anyway.

- Do you think you need help?

- Yes, I do.

I think everybody who's a homosexual
needs help.

- Homosexuality is one manifestation

of a failure to fully develop.

- Does your mother know about you?

- Yeah.
- What does she think?

- She just thinks it's disgusting, she
can't accept it.

- # Don't you become paralysed with
fear

# When things seem particularly
rough... #

- Did you find it very hard to come to
terms with the fact

that you are homosexual?

- Yes. From when I was about 16 till
about...

..20, 22 or 23.

The whole of that time, it was
associated in my mind with guilt,

sordid matters...

..elderly, unpleasant men.

- # Don't you pay them fuckers as they
say no never mind

# They don't give two shits about you

# It's the blind leading the blind

# What they want is commonly referred
to as theocracy

# And what that boils down to

# Is referred to as hypocrisy

# Don't listen to anyone

# Get answers on your own

# Even if it means that sometimes

# You feel quite alone

# No-one on this planet can tell you
what to believe

# People like to talk a lot

# And they like to deceive... #

- Did you ever go to your family at
Christmas?

- I haven't got any family, dear.

I never got on with them anyway.

I did have a friend.

- # A glacier moving through you

# And carving out deep valleys... #

- We lived together for years.

- # And creating spectacular
landscapes... #

- A real love match it was, you know?

Well, I've never wanted anything
since.

- # And nourishing the ground

# With precious minerals

# And other stuff

# So don't you become paralysed with
fear

# When things seem particularly rough

# O-o-oh

# This pain

# It is a glacier moving through you

# And carving out deep valleys

# And creating spectacular landscapes

# And nourishing the ground

# With precious minerals

# And other stuff

# So, don't you become paralysed with
fear

# When things seem particularly rough.
#

- I think one of the barriers to
public acceptance for you

is that normal people, or most normal
people,

find what you physically do
disgusting.

- Well, personally I find that

what a normal heterosexual couple do
is just the same to me.

I find it...

Well, I won't say disgusting, but
unnatural and repulsive.

- Sorry for them?

Not me. It's always excuses.

Every newspaper you pick up, it's
excuses.

Environment, too much love as kids,
too little love as kids,

they can't help it.

- We are in danger of permanently
damaging our social fabric.

This is dealing with a twilight area
of abnormal people.

- What is lesbianism, what causes it,
can it be cured?

- I wish I was normal.

- I want to be cured.

- Would you like to be cured?
- No.

- Why not?
- I'm perfectly happy the way I am.

I have no desire to be heterosexual.

I don't see any advantages in being
heterosexual.

Except for the fact that one might
have police protection, but...

No, no, I have no desire to change.

Even if I could.

- Can you tell by looking at a woman
whether she's lesbian or not?

- Not at all.
- You think that's a complete myth?

- An absolute myth, because I've been
looking out hard enough.

For years and years and years, I've
fallen in love with...

..various women.

But they've never reciprocated my
feeling,

not until I was 36 did anyone
reciprocate my feeling.

And I used to fall in love and then
feel quite happy about it at first,

and I thought, "Oh, but it's hopeless,

"you won't reciprocate my feeling,"
and I was right, she didn't.

I very often remained friendly with
that person, but, of course,

I was very disappointed.

- Most homosexuals dread getting old,
dread losing their looks,

fear in particular the final
loneliness

of living without a companion.

Like men needing wives,

they search for someone with whom they
can establish a lasting

relationship, which includes warmth
and protection, as well as sex.

These two have done that, have lived
together for 26 years.

They might almost be a married couple,
but they're still queer.

Have they been happy?

- Compared with a lot of married
couples,

reasonably, yes, reasonably happy.

- After all, everywhere around

everything is made for married people,

it's not made for people like us.

Things are awkward, aren't they?

- A comfortable house in Wandsworth
indistinguishable from thousands of

homes owned by married couples.

It's where a lesbian couple have lived
for four years -

a domestic life which began as
conventionally

as any normal married couple when they
fell in love.

Homosexual practices may not be
approved of,

homosexual love cannot be denied.

- The feeling of being in love, I'm
sure it's exactly the same

for men and for women.

The feeling of deep emotion towards
someone. And...

With me, it happened quite suddenly.

I had, in fact, only known Julie a few
days.

- # My love is the rarest jewel

# And he grounds me with his love

# My love, he is rich like caramel

# And he moves me from above

# He sees me with tiger eyes

# And that's where I make my home

# His heart is a shield

# Which protects me from the vilest
foe

# His smile's an elixir

# Which heals the wounds of my darkest
years

# When my love is quiet

# I consider him

# And he drives away my fears

# My love he reveals himself

# With tenderness and grace

# My love has constructed with his
arms

# For me the safest place

# His laughter destroys my doubts

# And lifts me up so high

# His voice it is soothing

# Like a warm breeze on a summer night

# When he envelops me

# I give myself to him

# And my soul takes flight... #

- Most homosexual partnerships are not
so lasting.

This young waiter talked about the
break-up of his.

- Initially, I think one of the main
reasons why it started to break up

was because we were very young when we
came together.

We were both 19.

He was much more a man about town,

much more worldly than I was,

and I looked to him for a great deal
of protection,

and as the years went by and I began
to develop,

I became more and more independent of
him.

But I certainly didn't love him any
the less

than what I did from the beginning.

But I think that he resented the fact
that

I was no longer dependent on him for
anything.

And this was the cancer that started
in our relationship,

and eventually made it break.

- # Horrifying as it was for me

# To see your face today

# I guess I knew that it would happen

# At some point

# And I dreaded it because I knew... #

- How I ever came to think you were so
marvellous...

- Bertie, for God's sake, go away!

- I have two children.

I didn't want to hurt you.

- # So you observe the strict rules

# Laid out in the books of
etiquette... #

- Please!

- # And tell me you hope I enjoy my
stay... #

- Happy, are you? Happy?

I despise you!

- I disgust you, I know, because you
disgust me.

When slaves love each other, it's not
love.

- I'm not married to you, George.

- Don't like that.

Stay with me.

You're the only one left.

- # You know, I hate this fucking town

# You cannot even leave your fucking
house...

- Come back!

- # Without running into someone who
no longer cares about you...

- No, don't turn away from me. Take me
in your arms.

Oh!

- # Somebody who you desperately want
to see...

- Oh!

- # But you know it's only going to
cause more grief

# Cos there is nothing left to say

# And he can't hear you anyway... #

- I'm making a real effort.

What am I supposed to do?

- Deacon is here to look after you.

Your chaperone.

Keep you out of my hair.

- Yeah, if he can stand up.

- Look, calm down, George, or take
another pill.

- # I really want to hate you but my
intellect reminds me...

- I love you, Francis.

- # ..that that doesn't make no sense

# And I want to be your friend

# But I couldn't pull it off in the
end

# And I'm disappointed with myself

# Cos I thought I killed you

# But then again you always made it
clear

# That you do not care either way

# Which begs the question - how can I
still claim to love you?

# You told me time and time again that
you don't lose, you always win

# And that to make an effort

# Would just be beneath you

# You know, I hate this fucking town

# You cannot even leave your fucking
house

# Without running into someone who no
longer cares about you

# Somebody who you desperately want to
see

# But you know it's only going to
cause more grief

# Cos there is nothing left to say

# And he can't hear you anyway. #

- Stop now.
- I can't stop. I love you too much to
stop.

I thought you loved me. If you do,
what do you feel for him?

I have a right to know.

- All right, you want to know, I shall
tell you.

You won't be content until you know,
will you?

Till you've ripped it out of me!

I stopped seeing him because I wanted
him. Do you understand?

Because I wanted him!

- Men who choose to love other men are
treated not only with intolerance

and contempt, but prosecuted and
jailed. As a result,

they become vulnerable to violence,
blackmail, and persecution.

Parliament has been asked to consider
a private member's bill

to remove that constant threat by
legalising homosexual acts

between consenting adults in private.
But a change in the law

doesn't guarantee a change in attitude
by the rest of us.

For many of us, this is revolting -
men dancing with men.

Homosexuals in this country today
break the law.

- I'd been to a party at one of the
embassies, and I'd been to the house

to vote, and then on my way home, I
thought,

"Well, I might take a little
exercise," and I went into the park,

and I met a young guardsman

and he went with me and, er, we went
into the darkness of the trees...

- I went into this toilet, and...

I suppose two or three times in the
course of an afternoon,

and I came out and somebody, a young
person,

said that they were arresting me for
importuning.

- # Stockholm is a place that I adore

# But the syndrome by that name is one
that I abhor

# Patty Hearst cannot compete with me

# I bet she thinks she can

# I'll prove her wrong

# At tea for free

# Words don't mean anything to you...
#

- You're a pansy, aren't you?

- Pansy?

- # Emotions turn right into lies like
black turns into blue

# Because the fear has made you
blind... #

- What's that, apart from being a
flower?

- So, they took me to some police
station, took my fingerprints.

- I was beaten up in a public lavatory
and left lying on the floor.

It was all rather messy and rather
nasty, I'm afraid.

- # No more tangles

# No more tears

# No more reindeer games

# With narcissistic queers

# Or any other such type of human
being... #

- I was beaten up in a public lavatory

by a man who in fact made advances to
me first of all.

Erm, and when I reciprocated, he
waited outside and beat me up.

And, of course, I couldn't do
anything,

I couldn't call the police.

- Unfortunately, we were discovered by
the police

and one of the park keepers, and I was
then arrested.

- And I was in the cell from Saturday
afternoon until Monday morning.

I never slept, just sat and cried.

- I'd only accept this brief, Mr
Wilde, if you assure me,

on your honour as an English
gentleman,

that there is no truth in the charges
made against you.

- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

it is indeed a sad and sickening
sight...

- # Answers to questions... #

- I assure you as an Irish gentleman
there is no truth whatever

in any of it.

- The judge said afterwards, it always
astounded him

that in this type of case, all these
homosexuals could produce

witnesses who would swear they were of
good character and so on.

Why on earth shouldn't a homosexual be
a good character?

- # You spend your days tied up in
knots...

- I want my phone call, my phone call,
my phone call!

- # You know how to tie them in your
flesh and in your thoughts... #

- The Earl of Dudley in the House of
Lords last year gave as his opinion

that prison was too good for all
homosexuals.

- # Tell me, how does one learn that
at your age so that it sticks? #

- It is really hell for a person,

and you get that you feel you want to
jump off a bridge,

you don't know what to do, you walk
the streets,

and you don't know a single person to
talk to.

Nowadays, I imagine you could find out
information somewhere or other,

but you couldn't then, before the war,

it was all hush-hush.

- # No more angles, no more dumbing it
down

# Gee, your hair smells perfect

# But I cannot stand to have you
around

# Not now

# Or any other time. #

- Sorry I'm late, Sergeant, but I just
couldn't leave home without bringing

something bright and gay for the poor
indisposed constables,

and here we are, with my love.

Oh, what have I said? With my very
best floral greetings.

- "I am the love that dare not speak
its name."

Do you see in that any improper
suggestion?

- No, nothing whatsoever.

Anything is good that incites thoughts
in whatever age?

- Whether moral or immoral.

- I think that the realisation of
oneself is the prime aim of life,

and that to realise oneself completely
through pleasure is finer

than to do so through pain.

- Enlightenment does not produce
tolerance.

Tolerance is the result of boredom.

The facts have to be repeated over and
over and over, and in the end,

people say, "All right, so you're
queer,

"just talk about something else." And
then the work is done.

And this is the work, of course,

of time, not of people, and not of
legislation.

Legislation makes almost no
difference.

It is the result of public opinion.

You can't really force, especially in
England,

a law upon a people who is totally
against it,

because they will get round it.

The more laws, you have the more
fixers and the more snoopers.

- The swashbuckling approach, the
heartiness, the thumping stride,

the tough man's clothes -

these things are natural to some
lesbians, but mostly unacceptable

to people outside that world.

This means that for lesbians who want
to relax in the kind of clothes

and the kind of way that make them
happy, there are few places to go.

One of them is a club in Chelsea, a
place where there is no longer

any need to pretend. There they can
dance, drink, flirt, make friends,

discuss their problem with others who
will understand.

- Normal people often say that they
find the idea of physical sex

between two women disgusting. What do
you say to that?

- I regard sex as an expression of
love.

If you love someone, I think it's...

Well, I think quite honestly it's
cruel to withhold sex from them

if this is what they and you want from
the relationship.

I think it is as cruel as it would be
in a normal marriage.

- What do lesbians actually do?

- Allowing for the anatomical
differences,

the same sort of things as any normal
couple do,

with all the variations which normal
couples indulge in.

- # Dial up my number now

# Weaving it through the wire

# Switch me on

# Turn me up

# Don't want it Baudelaire, just
glitter lust

# Switch me on

# Turn me up

# I want to touch you, you're just
made for love

# I need la la la la la la, I need ooh
la la la la

# Coils up and round me

# Teasing your poetry

# Switch me on

# Turn me up

# Oh, child of Venus, you're just made
for love

# I need la la la la la la, I need ooh
la la la la

# You know, I walk for days

# I wanna waste some time

# You wanna be so mean

# You know I love to watch

# I wanna love some more

# It'll never be the same

# A broken heel like a heart

# I'll never walk again

# Yeah!

# I need la la la la la la, I need ooh
la la la la

# I need la la la la la la, I need ooh
la la la la. #

- With two men, it's much easier.

A bit quick, sometimes it may all
happen in half an hour,

and you may not even have spoken.

- But don't the anatomical differences
between men and women mean that

the sexual relationship can't be the
same?

- No, they make very little
difference.

It's the person that matters, and not
the sex.

- Would you say you were promiscuous?

- I am, yes.

- Why?

- Because I keep searching for someone
to fall in love with.

And when I don't find it in one
person, I move on.

- How long does it take?
- Give it ten days, then ring through.

- Ten days?

It's a long time to keep your fingers
crossed.

- # I woke up today, it was very
strange

# I couldn't feel my skin, and there
was evil in my bones... #

- Tonight, TVI talks to those with the
killer disease AIDS.

One of the victims is in hospital, the
other is at home.

Both are in their mid-30s and
homosexual.

They tell what it's like learning to
live under sentence of death,

and ask, will society learn to live
with them too?

- # And I feel just like Sigourney
Weaver

# When she had to kill those aliens...
#

- The history of AIDS in Britain is
short but dramatic.

The first death was recorded in 1982,

when the word AIDS was hardly known,

it was simply a mystery killer
disease.

But then the death toll grew,

not fast by the standards of many
other diseases, but fast enough.

Until today, there have been 58
deaths, and alongside it, the panic.

A fear that anybody could catch it.

All that doctors can do

is to stop each new problem being the
fatal one.

- # The sky was black and filled with
tiny silver holes

# And it was there with a frightened
voice

# That I began to cry out loud

# I feel just like Winona Ryder

# In that movie about vampires

# And she couldn't get that accent
right

# And neither could that other guy...
#

- Are there potentially others than
your lover who could be at risk?

- Oh, I feel sure that there could be.

"I don't know," would be the answer to
that question.

If, as I understand it, the disease
can stay in the body and

not manifest itself in any illness for
as long as four years,

as I understand it, then obviously
that's the truth, yes.

- Many others?
- Yes, I've always been a relatively
well-adjusted gay.

- # I feel just like I am on Jupiter

# One that looks like rainbow sherbet

# But it doesn't lend itself to life

# And I haven't finished yet. #

- What are you ashamed of in Britain
today?

- Talking as a Londoner, I think in
London itself, the amount of,

or how rife homosexuality has become.

- It still... As you say, it's worse?

- I think in actual fact it has become
worse over a period of time,

but it's one of those things that you
have to live with.

- Yes, I suppose so.

- All right, those at the back, settle
down.

Will you keep quiet?

- Sir?
- If you have any questions, put your
hands up.

- Sir?
- Yes, Christopher?

- Is it true that you're bent?

- Do you mind repeating the question,
Christopher?

- Is it true that you're a queer?

- CHILDREN JEER

- There's been a rumour going around
the school that you're a queer.

- Come on, admit it.

- Yes, it's true.

- CHILDREN JEER

- All right, now you know, get on with
the work.

The question arose, and I discussed
it.

I answered their questions.

- Yes, but you must be more careful
about this, Jeff.

- # What you got is a black belt in BS

# But you can't hawk your pretty wares
up in here any more

# Hit your head on the playground at
recess

# Etch-a-sketch your way out of this
one, reject! #

- They were asking me the usual stupid
questions that children of that age

do ask, because they don't know
anything about the subject,

they're not taught it anywhere,

they certainly aren't taught it in
this school.

- Yes, yes, yes, but...

- In Trafalgar Square today, over
3,000 people listened to speakers

demanding changes in the law relating
to the age of consent

for homosexuals. The speakers were
urging

a reduction from the age of 21 to 16
for homosexuals.

- According to the law, young gay men
don't exist.

If you're 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 and
gay, then you're not here.

Well, I'm here, and we're here and we
will not be quiet

until we get equality.

- What my honourable friend is seeking
to do is to get this house

to vote to legalise the buggery of
adolescent males.

Does she really think that that's what
our constituents

have sent us here to do?
- No.

- # What you got is a black belt in BS

# But you can't hawk your pretty wares
up in here any more

# Hit your head on the playground at
recess

# Etch-a-sketch your way out of this
one, reject! #

- How can we advise young gay men
about the dangers of AIDS when what

they're doing is supposed to be
strictly against the law?

- Heterosexual activity is normal, and
homosexual activity,

putting your penis into another man's
arsehole, is a perversion.

- Order, order, order. We can well do
without talk like that.

The ayes to the right were 280,

the noes to the left were 307, so the
noes have it.

- 16... It's not 16. 16 has lost.
- How do you know?

- They've just had the vote, the
vote's just happened,

16 has not happened. They're going to
now vote on 18. We've lost 16!

- How much have you lost by?
- 27 votes.

Bastards!

- People who don't know anything about
our lives,

don't know anything about being gay,

are telling us how to live and who we
have the right to sleep with,

and we're just really fed up with it,
you know. We've been waiting

and waiting for change, and still it's
thrown back in our face again.

We're still not treated as if we're
equals, still being devalued.

Everybody's just furious, and it's not
surprising, is it, really?

- 16 now! 16 now! 16 now! 16 now! 16
now! 16 now! 16 now! 16 now!

- If everybody was a lesbian, if
everybody was homosexual,

I mean, the whole world would
collapse.

I mean, the human race would die out
in a matter of a few generations.

I mean, one of the sort of definitions
of a living organism

is that it should reproduce itself.

Um, and... I mean, if everybody were
homosexual,

this planet would be dead.

- I think people really are worried
about homosexuality in general.

I think a lot of people are really
scared of it as well.

They don't really understand it, and
it almost horrifies them.

The thought of a couple walking down
the street, the same sex,

holding hands, and I think they'd
rather walk away from it,

avoid it, and not talk about it than
really look at it openly and try and

find out what it's all about.

- But I know a lot of people who are
bothered by the fact that

homosexuals in general do try to press
their views on other people,

and through programmes like this,
they're almost sort of

forcing their ways upon the majority.

- Anyone wanting more information from
organisations dealing with lesbians,

should send us a stamped addressed
envelope for our fact sheet.

- # Is it difficult for you to be so
beautiful?

# Or do you find the advantages tend
to outweigh the disadvantages?

# Am I being rude?

# I'm sorry, I've never really had the
appropriate attitude...

- Punk's not dead!

- # Do you think that life is easier
when one looks as good as you do?

# Or do people always say that you are
a narcissist?

# Do they ingratiate themselves to you
and act all obsequious?

# Come on, now, baby, you can tell me,
it's just between the two of us

# Snug slacks, baby, snug slacks

# Now you're giving me a different
kind of panic attack

# Sick joke, baby crack smoke,

# Now take me out in your pick-up for
a midnight poke

# I said Stonehenge, baby, drug binge

# Now you got me all damp down in my
underpants

# Snug slacks, baby, snug slacks

# Now let's get you out of those

# And see what kind of punch your
manhood packs. #

- Quite nice.
- Yeah.
- Just a minute,

those girls over to your right,
they're taking the mickey.

Do you want me to go over and give
them some verbal?

- You did the last two. Let me do
these.

Here, you ain't taking the piss out of
us, are you?

Don't look like that. Listen, I'll
tell you something, darling,

I get paid for making people laugh,

and I object to you two having it for
nothing, all right?

Right, where were we?

That's it.

- Yeah, I like that, it looks good.

- How do you think homosexuals reveal
themselves

when they're talking about ordinary
topics?

- Perhaps in the assumptions they make
about their future,

which are going to be different from
heterosexual futures.

I make a deliberate effort in my
conversation, sometimes,

to imply that marriage is in my
future.

But talking at ease, I might give away
the fact

that, in practice, I know it's not
going to be any part of my future.

- Is a relationship like this a sort
of imitation marriage,

or is it something quite different
from that?

- It's not in fact an imitation
marriage, it is a real marriage,

in the sense that it is a union
between two people.

It can't, in fact, be precisely the
same as a heterosexual marriage.

There are no children, as you say,

but in any other sense it is in fact a
marriage between two people,

and it is a permanent association of
two people.

- When there is no opprobrium,

when there is no humiliation heaped on
homosexuals from outside,

they will cease to have to confirm or
deny.

Unfortunately, of course,

toleration has come in a form that is
slightly insulting.

That is to say, one imagined the
message, when it came, would read,

"Forgive us for having for so long
allowed our prejudices to blind us

"to your true worth and cross our
unworthy threshold

"with your broad-minded feet."
Instead, the message now reads,

"Oh, come in, the place is a mess,
you'll love it."

- Will you marry me?

- # Boy, you knock me on my ass so
hard

# How could I know that you was
holding that ace card?

# When I saw you, my jaw hit the floor

# Now I don't want them other boys no
more

# You sent a laser beam of love to my
soul

# You make me shake so hard I lose
control

# My sweet director, won't you give me
the part?

# Cos you're the one who jump-started
my heart

# Cos you're my supernatural
defibrillator

# You are my heavenly re-animator

# You are my super sexy stimulator

# You are my loneliness exterminator

# Come on, baby, 'fore I come on glue

# Don't make me wait, boy, that would
be so rude

# You got me where I always wanted to
be

# Right in front of you and down on my
knees

# I feel like someone punched me right
in my head

# I need to lay down, baby, take me to
bed

# You leave me gobsmacked,
dumbfounded, twitterpated,

# Bound and struck, stunned and shot,
fuddled, discombobulated... #

# Cos you're my supernatural
defibrillator

# You are my heavenly re-animator

# You are my super sexy stimulator

# You are my loneliness exterminator

# You are my supernatural
defibrillator

# You are my heavenly re-animator

# You are my super sexy stimulator

# You are my loneliness
exterminator... #

- I will not accept a pardon.

To accept a pardon means that you
accept that you were guilty.

I was not guilty of anything.

Not guilty of anything...

- # Cos you're my supernatural
defibrillator

# You are my heavenly re-animator

# You are my super sexy stimulator

# You are my loneliness exterminator

# You are my supernatural
defibrillator

# You are my heavenly re-animator

# You are my super sexy stimulator

# You are my loneliness exterminator.
#

# Adeline, you heard 'em sing about
sweet Adeline

# Hey, let me tell you she's a pal of
mine

# She's divine

# That's just why I'm going back again
to see my Adeline

# All right, I'll never learn, I'm out
of line

# Did tell her that I'm going to make
her mine

# Bells will chime

# For me and my sweet Adeline. #