This Is Deaf: LGBTQIA+ Life

Ahmed talks to members of the LGBTQIA+ community to find out how attitudes have changed over the decades.

27m 23s

Magazine programme (2021). Presenter Ahmed Mudawi chats with studio guest Bea Webster, a writer, director, actor and campaigner for disability and the LGBTQIA+ community.  And that's not all: James Boyle talks to Howard Beck about his experiences of being deaf and gay during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, June Smith and Gerard Maguire discuss Gay Sign Variation, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community tell us what life is like now in the 21st century.  A Signpost Productions production for BSLBT.

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