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Welcome to Chechnya: The Male lover Purge
Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge lays bare the Russian Federation republic's deadly war against its gay citizens. Countless victims have been killed and hundreds more are missing. With the LGBTQ group living in fear and secrecy, this brave and searing film follows the underground team fighting to rescue them before it is too late.
Since 2017, Chechnya’s tyrannical leader Ramzan Kadyrov has waged a depraved operation to ‘cleanse the blood’ of LGBTQ Chechens, overseeing a government-directed campaign to detain, torture and execute them. With no help from the Kremlin, and only faint global condemnation, activists possess taken matters into their own hands. From a safe house in a secret location in Russia, they risk their retain lives by running rescue missions into Chechnya and providing temporary shelter.
This clip follows the extraordinary bravery of the activists and Chechens whose lives are being threatened. Deploying a groundbreaking, new digital ‘face-double’ technique that has never been used before in documentary film-making, the identities of those most at risk are protected. By the close of the film, 151 people own been located with
Olly Alexander: Growing up Gay
Recent figures show that more than 40 per cent of LGBT+ people will experience a significant mental health problem, compared to around 25 per cent of the whole population, and are more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide.
In this eye-opening film, young pop culture icon Olly Alexander explores why the lgbtq+ community is more vulnerable to mental health issues, as he opens up about his own long-term battles with depression. As the outspoken frontman of British band Years and Years, Olly is a powerful voice on mental health, bullying and LGBT+ rights. He has broken taboos with music videos that celebrate queer identities and spoken openly about his own sexuality as well as his carried on struggles with anxiety.
In the film, Olly joins juvenile people on their journeys battling issues that parallel his own - from homophobic bullying to eating and anxiety disorders - and along the way he asks what can be done to handle them.
Why am I gay?
Human sexuality comes in many forms, from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual. But seeing as homosexuality creates apparent reproductive and evolutionary disadvantages, listener Ahmed from Oslo wants to know: why are some people gay?
CrowdScience presenter Caroline Steel examines what science can - and can't - relate us about the role of character, nurture and evolution in human sexual attraction. She asks a geneticist what we know of the oft-debated 'gay gene', as skillfully as looking into why homosexual men on average own more older brothers than heterosexual men.
Caroline looks into the role of nurture with a developmental psychologist to acknowledge a question from a CrowdScience listener from Myanmar. He wonders if the distant relationship he has with his own father has impacted his possess feelings of attraction.
She also learns about research into a group of people in Samoa who may shed illumination on the benefits of traditionally non-reproductive relationships for communities as a whole.
Presented by Caroline Steel
Produced by Jonathan Blackwell for BBC Planet Service
Contributors:
Dr. Kevin Mitchell - Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience, Trinity
Section 28: Right to be Gay
In 1986 somebody came across a children’s manual in a library in Haringey, North London. It was called Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin and it showed a minor living with her father and his male partner. This book would grow a firing shot for a society war: a war about what gentle of country Britain was becoming.
It would engulf the newly-created Haringey Queer woman and Gay Unit, local parents, the tabloid press, Parliament and Margaret Thatcher herself. She said that: “Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral ethics are being taught that they own an inalienable right to be gay.”
Eventually, it would fallout in a regulation banning the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality by local authorities and by schools. Section 28 of the Local Government Proceed - enacted in 1988, at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
The actor Michael Cashman, who campaigned against the law, goes back and tells the story behind it. How and why a local issue turned into a media sensation, created a movement, and sparked a battle over sex education that continues today.
Produced by Dasha Lisitsina
A Samizdat Audio production for BBC Radio 4
Mr Loverman: How BBC series explores black LGBT life
In his decades of campaigning, Brown says he experienced physical violence "a handful of times".
According to recent Home Office data, loath crimes motivated by sexual orientation have fallen for the second year in a row, to 22,839 reported incidents in England and Wales.
But, in Brown's view: "For young ebony men, the world can sometimes feel isolating."
In earlier decades, public figures were sometimes subjected to exploitation, like gay footballer Justin Fashanu, who is referenced in Mr Loverman.
Nowadays, Brown says there have been changes in how ebony, gay men are perceived - and he instead sees a "sense of pride and positive role models".
He adds: "Today, TV, organisations, music, magazines, and websites allow black Queer people to see themselves and connect, creating community."
Indeed, there are now high-profile black LGBT figures including British Vogue cover actor Munroe Bergdorf, number one Head & Heart singer-songwriter MNEK and Olympian Dame Kelly Holmes.
According to Thompson, Mr Loverman "tries to provide different perspectives about being black and Homosexual