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[tree_and_leaf]

The first gay TV drama, rediscovered?

It's an ITV television play, set in the South of the US, immediately before the Civil War. It's said to hold up well to a modern audience, though there is no word on whether the accents would cause American viewers to wince...

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[queen_ypolita]

As the article says, it's showing at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival at the moment, and will be added to the things you can watch at BFI mediatheques—I saw it at the festival yesterday afternoon, and it was definitely worth seeing.

Accents will probably make people wince; I don't have a very good ear for accents but it seemed to me there seemed to be a bit of a variable effort going on with that.