Counterpoint: Gay Rights - Clip of John Cross Interview

Counterpoint: Gay Rights - Clip of John Cross Interview

Gay rights

LGBTIA+ Activism

Counterpoint

TV Programme

Gay life

interview

oral history

UTV

Counterpoint was a TV Programme broadcast in the 1990's in Northern Ireland on the Ulster Television (UTV) branch of the national television channel ITV. It was a debate format show which encouraged guest speakers to discuss a range of topical issues. In this episode the age of consent, for gay men is discussed in relation a recent Parliament vote in Westminster, London, to make the age of consent for gay men different from that of heterosexual people in both Britain and Northern Ireland respectively. In this clip John Cross, a young openly gay man from Belfast is interviewed about his experience of being gay in Northern Ireland and various coping mechanisms to homophobia he has had to deploy.

UTV

Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive 

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ITV

24th February 1994

Nesbitt, Mike

Cross, John

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Northern Ireland

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