Gay in the UK video blog (Ep. 27): "The play's the thing."

It's The Duchess of Malfi at the Kings Head Theatre in Islington 2-27th Sept. If you're in London pop down and say hello!

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I swear it wasn't me!  O well, we're going to have try the GMTV comp instead even if it's not for a cosy.

Great show but I feel you missed a major event by not reporting on Lincoln pride.  We had 'Same Difference' headlining!  Beat that Manchester :)

Hope all goes well tonight with The Duchess of Malfi Tim.

Read an interesting article about a call for an apology by the British government over the treatment and conviction of Alan Turing as a homosexual. And of course I thought of you guys and wondered what your thoughts were about it.

As a computer nerd, I think any recognition for the tremendous contribution he gave towards computer science and the modern computer age is worthwhile.  In my mind the apology would recognize him him fully in every aspect of his life. I don't know that much about British history so this could just be me speaking out of turn.

Anyways, love the show, keep up the goodwork, and I think Whoopi deserved the rose. She wasn't actually physically there but hey it's the thought that counts.

"You may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with you." - Magnolia (1999)

The only reason you two have the ability to talk and explore gay sexuality in so many different artistic, political and cultural levels so openly is because older generations have been there and fought the fights in the past.

You're both cute kids, but neither of you would have the jobs you have and the freedoms you enjoy unless other men had fought the fights before you were even born. The only reason I'm saying this is because you wouldn't even have a blog - you wouldn't even be able to talk about any kind of gay sexuality unless older gay men had fought the cause.

I'm pissed off with both of you because you seem to think that my arguments about Big Brother are a cause for fun. Neither of you are old enough to understand how important it was for Brian Dowling to win a reality programme and frankly neither of you seem mature enough to understand why having a culturally significant programme like Big Brother is important in British life when the majority of contestants are gay.

You're saying you're 'Gay in the UK' but what the hell has been more Gay in the UK on a daily basis? EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street? What?

Essentially, you've made snide comments about gay TV life in the UK because you've not liked it. Not because it doesn't exist. Boys, you've been snobs.

Whether you've liked it or not, Big Brother with its massive gay storylines has been picking up ratings of 2-3million nightly for the last three months. There's no other aspect of popular entertainment that's done that on a nightl,y regular basis. Especially on a show that has emphasised gay visibility.

I'm making these comments on a gay site. It's an American gay site. If American mainstream TV had this kind of gay visibility every night at 9 or 10pm, it would be a major discussion point. But according to you it's not important and something else is more important to gay culture..? Like what?

You don't discuss politics and you don't cover mainstream gay aspects of British life unless they're 'politically correct' (which seems to amount to elitist/snobbish). I'm gay and I'm in the UK and increasingly your reports have nothing to do with me.

You seem to have become gay 20-30-year-olds in the UK. That's a false demographic and obviously one that is meaningless to me unless it operates in some longer-term continuum of British gay life.

Sorry boys, but if you're Gay in the UK, I've either stopped being gay or I've stopped living in the UK.

Hey boys, without respect, nothing is nice, ever.