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This talk situates 1980s British broadcasting about HIV/AIDS within the evolution of gay broadcasting in the postwar period. It argues that, despite initial fears of a homophobic backlash on television and radio, broadcasters and gay campaigners worked in partnership with medics and the government to counteract the homophobia prevalent in British society of the 1980s. AIDS programming built upon genres of lesbian and gay broadcasting established in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, but the need for collaboration with broadcasting organisations and the state foreclosed the do-it-yourself ethos of earlier broadcasts and attenuated their critique of heteronormativity.

This hybrid talk forms part of the AHRC-funded public engagement project 'Re-viewing LGBTQ+ Lives through Broadcasting in Postwar Britain'. It is being hosted by ÎçÒ¹»ÆƬµ¼º½'s Health Humanities Research Seminar and the Media, Memory and History Research Group, and will be co-chaired by Dr Sara Read and Dr Jade French (English).

All are welcome to attend in person or online. For the Teams link, please email marcus.collins@lboro.ac.uk in advance.