LGBT Britain

The smash culture-clash comedy tells the incredible true story of how miners and a Gay Pride support group come together to fight a common cause.

Five decades on from the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, a range of LGBTQ+ stars (including Sir Elton John and Stephen Fry) reflect on Britain's history of prejudice, persecution and liberation.

Lisa Gornick's funny and frank drama sketches the relationship between a sex-obsessed lesbian illustrator and a randy hetero author, who bond over their favourite subject.

A celebration of outrageous British playwright Joe Orton’s irreverent and charismatic talent, starring Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina.

Surprisingly risqué TV adaptation of one of Joe Orton’s best known plays, filmed shortly after his murder.

Joe Orton’s delicious slice of suburban perversity, in which Beryl Reid’s lascivious landlady and her gay brother attempt to seduce their psychopathic tenant.

This thought-provoking classic stars Dirk Bogarde as a homosexual lawyer who risks his career to hunt down a blackmailer.

Silvio Narizzano adapts Joe Orton’s extraordinarily funny satire on police corruption and the conventions of detective fiction.

A young gay couple’s relationship is put to the test as a road trip takes a sinister turn in Lloyd Reckord's daring underground short.

Berated by his father for his camp behaviour, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins his friend Michael, a streetwise hustler who is also on the run.

Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and starring Derek Jarman, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Robert Smith's Wild Flowers is an exquisite drama set at the funeral for a daughter, where her mother remembers the passionate yet painful affair she once had with another woman in Scotland.

Mapping how British film and TV depicts the gay and lesbian lifestyle, Andrea Weiss raids the archives for her funny and persuasive documentary.

Current affairs series This Week offers a non-judgmental report on homosexuality

What is lesbianism? What causes it? ITV's This Week attempts to demystify lesbian sexuality.

Russell Tovey stars as a Premier League footballer who shares a fumbled pass (of the sexual kind) with a teammate (Arinzé Kene), changing everything - both on and off the pitch.

Tilda Swinton stars in Sally Potter's dazzling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.

Funny, acerbic and moving story of a young man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him.

Ben Whishaw stars in an intimate portrait of two strangers brought together by the common language of grief.

A teenager (Ben Whishaw) pays a sexually charged visit to the swimming pool.

An elderly woman in a care home strikes up a sensual, nostalgic relationship with a young nurse.

A gay British-Chinese man refuses to date Chinese men. But then Jai Ming moves in next door.

Edgy mixture of black comedy and urban drama about a woman uncovering the hidden truths about her dead lover.

Acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) made his feature debut with this bold, sexually explicit drama-documentary about London rent boys.

Bryan Forbes directs the Oscar-nominated story of a French woman (Leslie Caron) moving to London while unmarried, pregnant, and alone.

A bizarre study of obsession focusing on a teenage boy who is torn between the charms of a fleshly female prostitute and the sadism of an older man.

John Maybury’s dark, queer state of the nation film starring Tilda Swinton and Rupert Everett

The borstal drama – billed as the female Scum – features Amanda York and Kathy Burke as inmates of a ruthless women’s prison.

John Hannah stars as a painfully shy gay man who escapes the city in Chris Newby’s extraordinary second feature.

Touching drama about a thirtysomething comedian looking for happiness.

How did a cute, gay Essex boy go from oyster fishing to becoming the toast of the London arts scene?

From Sudan to the Greek islands via the East Midlands - a young gay woman seeks love, happiness and fulfilment

Are you ready to strut your stuff? Take a bracing, sexy cruise around the diverse 1980s gay scene.

The fabulous life and times of queer writer Kris Kirk, who became one of the UK’s most influential music journalists.

A female ‘end-of-the-pier’ double act find out a surprising secret about their landlady - and about each other.

Endearingly right-on concoction bringing together lesbians and gay men for dancing and debate at Heaven nightclub

Hettie MacDonald’s 1996 comedy tells the story of two classmates and neighbours (Glen Berry, Scott Neal) who fall in love in over one summer in South East London.

Extraordinary 1970s sexploitation film, groundbreaking in its portrayal of interracial and homosexual sex.

Tommy Knight (The Sarah Jane Adventures, Waterloo Road, Young Victoria) stars in this light-hearted drama as Henry, a teenager struggling with his sexuality in 1986.

Neil Jordan's acclaimed 1992 drama-mystery tells the story of Fergus (Stephen Rea), who looks after the lover (Jaye Davidson) of a British soldier he once knew. But what is Dil hiding?

Andrew Steggall’s deft and delicate drama about a teenage dreamer who falls for the rough beauty of local boy while staying in France.

Telling the untold stories from the early days of the UK AIDS pandemic; by the people who were there and the people who supported them.