Queer Britain

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The queer alphabet - from AC/DC to Zipper.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A short but sweet show of stylish and colourful characters, parading to bring pride and power to the queer community in Central London.

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

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

Two councils with two different approaches to LGBT rights.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Queer psychedelic portrait of a young man’s desires in an industrial wasteland

Manchester is 'Tickled Pink' with this annual celebration of LGBT life.

Portentous imagery and John Hurt’s grave voiceover define this key film from a £5 million campaign to combat the AIDS epidemic.

Simple and devastatingly effective, a key advert from the UK's first major AIDS awareness campaign.