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Do you see in that anything improper?

No, nothing much.

(Wilde) Anything is good

that incites thought in whatever age.

Whether moral or immoral?

(Wilde) I think that

the realisation of oneself

is the prime aim of life.

And to realise oneself

completely through pleasure

is finer than to do so than through pain.

Enlightenment does not produce tolerance.

Tolerance is the result of boredom.

The facts have to be repeated

over and over and over,

and in the end people say,

"Alright, so you're queer,

just talk about something else".

And then the work is done.

And this is the work, of course, of time.

Not of people and not of legislation.

Legislation makes almost no difference.

It is the result of public opinion.

You can't really force,

especially in England,

a law upon a people

who is totally against it,

because they will get around it.

The more laws you have,

the more fixers and the more snoopers.

(Reporter 2) The swashbuckling approach,

the heartiness, the thumping stride,

the tough man's clothes.

These things are natural

to some lesbians,

but mostly unacceptable

to people outside that world.

This means that for lesbians

who want to relax

in the kind of clothes

and way that make them happy,

there are few places to go.

One of them is a club in Chelsea,

a place where there's no need to pretend.

There they can dance,

drink, flirt', make friends,

discuss their problem

with others who will understand.

(Reporter) Normal people often say that

they find the idea of physical sex

between two women disgusting.

What do you say to that?

I regard sex as an expression of love.

If you love someone, I think it's...

Well, I think, quite honestly,

it's cruel to withhold sex from them

if this is what

they and you want from the relationship.

I think it is as cruel

as it would be in a normal marriage.

What do lesbians actually do?

(Doctor)

Allowing for the anatomical differences,

the same sort of things

as any normal couple do,

with all the variations

which normal couples indulge in.

J" Dial up my number now

J" Weaving it through the wire

J" Switch me on

J" Turn me up

J" Don't want it, Baudelaire

Just glitter lust

J" Switch me on

J" Turn me up

J" I want to touch you

You're just made for love

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" Coils up and round me

J" Teasing your poetry

J" Switch me on

J" Turn me up

J" Oh child of Venus

You're just made for love

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" You know I walk for days

J" I want to waste some time

J" You want to be so mean

J" You know I love to watch

J" I want to love some more

J" I'll never be the same

J" A broken heel like a heart

J" I'll never walk again

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia la

J" I need Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia

J" I need ooh Ia Ia Ia Ia J"

With two men, it's much easier.

Very quick, sometimes,

and it can all happen in half an hour.

They may not have even spoken.

(Reporter) Don't the anatomical differences

between men and women

mean that the sexual relationship

can't be the same?

They make little difference.

It's the person that matters.

Not the sex.

(Reporter)

Would you say you were promiscuous?

I am, yes.

Why?

Because I keep searching

for someone to fall in love with.

And when I don't find it

in one person, I move on.

- (Man) How long does it take?

- (Doctor) Give it 10 days. They'll ring.

(Man) 10 days,"...

It's a long time

to keep your fingers crossed.

J" When I woke up today

The air was very strange

J" I couldn't feel my skin

J" And there was evil in my bones J"

(Reporter) Tonight, TV Eye talks

to those with the killer disease, AIDS.

One of the victims is in hospital.

The other is at home.

Both are in their mid-thirties

and homosexual.

They tell what it's like

learning to live under sentence of death

and ask, "Will society learn

to live with them too?"

J" When she had to kill those aliens J"

(Reporter) The history of AIDS

in Britain is short but dramatic.

The first death was recorded in 1982,

when the word AIDS was hardly known.

It was simply a mystery killer disease.

But then the death toll grew,

not fast by the standards

of many other diseases,

but fast enough.

Until today, there have been 58 deaths,

and alongside it, the panic.

A fear that anybody could catch it.

All the doctors can do is to stop

each new problem being the fatal one.

J" And it was there

With a frightened voice

J" That I began to cry out loud

J" I feel just like Winona Ryder

J" In that movie about vampires

J" And she couldn't get that accent right

J" And neither could that other guy J"

(Reporter) Are there potentially others

than your lover who could be at risk?

Oh, I feel sure that there could be.

I don't know

would be the answer to that question.

If, as I understand it,

the disease can...

stay in the body, and...

not manifest itself in any illness

for as long as four years,

as I understand it,

then obviously that's the truth, yes.

Many others?

Yes, I've always been

a relatively well-adjusted gay.

(Reporter) What are you ashamed of

in Britain today?

Talking as a Londoner,

I think in London itself,

the amount of...

how rife homosexuality has become.

And it does...

You say it's worse now?

I think it has become worse.

One of those things you have to live with.

(Classroom commotion)

(Teacher) Alright!

Those at the beck settle down.

Will you keep quiet!

- Sir!

- If you have any questions, hands up.

- Sir!

- Yes, Christopher?

Is it true that you're bent?

(Laughter)

Would you mind repeating the question?

Is it true that you're a queer?

(Laughter)

There's a rumour going round

that you're a queer!

- Come on! Admit it!

- Yes, it's true.

(Raucous outcry)

(Teacher) All right, now you know.

Get on with the work.

The question arose and I discussed it.

I answered their questions.

(Headteacher)

But you must be more careful about it.

J" What you got is a black belt in BS

J" But you can't hawk

Your pretty wares up in here any more

J" Hit your head

On the playground at recess

J" Etch-a-sketch your way

Out of this one, reject! J"

They were asking me

the usual stupid questions

that children of that age do ask

because they don't know anything.

They're not taught it anywhere,

certainly not in this school...

(Reporter) In Trafalgar Square today,

over 3000 people listened to speakers

demanding changes in the law

relating to the age of consent

for homosexuals.

The speakers were urging a reduction

from the age of 21 to 16 for homosexuals.

According to the law,

young gay men don't exist.

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