Made in the 1950s, it was the BBC's first documentary about gay men but the work was later lost
The years following World War TwoSome - such as wartime codebreaker Alan Turing and knighted actor Sir John Gielgud - were high-profile figures. Such cases - and. It recommended a partial decriminalisation of sex between men over 21 in private. But a change in the law took another 10 years to get through parliament.Stephen M Hornby specialises in playwriting from archives
"The basic concept of the original documentary is that an everyman journalist looks at a social problem, talks to so-called experts in different fields about it and comes to a balanced conclusion," he says."The experts don't actually possess much expertise and the view of homosexuality is an othering one.
"There's only one man in the whole programme who talks openly about same sex experiences and he's paraded as a 'cured homosexual'. "He's in a void though as the culture around him tells him almost nothing about homosexuality, except for reports of a few high-profile men being arrested. "The ghosts I've awoken in The BBC's First Homosexual are telling us something profound about Britain today.
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