25/10/2020
Our television watchers have found a couple of programmes that might appeal to an LGBTQ viewer on Sunday night (25th October). From 9pm, Channel Five profiles ABBA, the legendary and gay literate pop sensations who emerged from Sweden and Norway in the seventies to dominate the popular music charts, with a fusion of schlager, pop, disco and traditional sounds. At 10pm, ABBA Live in Concert, recorded during their appearances at Wembley Arena at the height of their powers, in November 1979. Meanwhile, over on Channel Four at 10.55pm, Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o looks at the women who inspired the film Black Panther, the first African-Futurist movie.
On Sky Arts, we have the Black British Theatre Awards from 9pm, whilst a female written classic of nineteenth century literature, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is analysed in a couple of programmes on BBC-4 from 11pm.
He's recently spoken out in favour of trans rights, and seems to have been blocked on Twitter by the increasingly fanaticised JK Rowling. He is Stephen King and he is a Master of Horror at 11pm on 5Select. Meanwhile, from 1opm on Talking Pictures TV, the late great Rock Hudson stars in “Darling Lili” from 1970. Sadly, Rock Hudson, who was a closeted gay man during his Hollywood career, passed away in October 1985 from an AIDS related condition. He had come out as being HIV positive earlier that year, and indeed, Mr Hudson was the first major celebrity to die from AIDS. His sexuality also became known during 1984 and 1985, revealed in surprisingly sympathetic articles in the American celebrity press. Hollywood rallied round Mr Hudson and as the late Joan Rivers would later point out, his death did mark the start of a turning point in AIDS, with mass movements growing out of it and the start of major public awareness.
