Talk:Timeline of LGBT British Broadcasting

SCOPE — decide this before writing, and state it at the top of the page

A suggested principle: this is a timeline of firsts and turning points, not a catalogue. An entry earns its place by changing something — the first of its kind, a landmark audience, a broadcasting row, a change in what was permitted. A programme that simply contains an LGBT character does not qualify unless it was the first, or the row about it mattered.

State the boundaries plainly: British production, broadcast television and its streaming successors, drama, documentary and factual alike.

GAPS WORTH FILLING

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The 1960s and 1970s are thin above and are where the real work is. Likely candidates to research:

• Current affairs coverage of the Wolfenden report and the 1967 Act.
• Man Alive (BBC) editions on homosexuality in the late 1960s.
• Any coverage of the Gay Liberation Front and the first Prides.
• Section 28 and its effect on broadcasting in the late 1980s.
• The banning or cutting of programmes, and complaints upheld against them — broadcasting rows are often better documented than the programmes themselves.