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Media ID   0018-A    

My Word (BBC panel show), item on the Dorian Society and Victoria Club rugby match (11 July 1987), and Adrian Kelly interviewed on gay Roman Catholics (ca 1986)


Unique ID

1127796061-14

Speakers

Adrian Kelly, Ian Kember, Maurice Halder

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Source tape

     

0018-A

Date

     

unknown, 11 July 1987, ca 1986

Source

     

BBC, Gay Broadcasting Collective – Access Radio Wellington

Copyright

     

BBC, Gay Broadcasting Collective – Access Radio Wellington

Recorded by

     

Barry Neels

Deposited by

     

Barry Neels

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Disclaimer

This summary gives general themes as to the content of this recording. It is not a verbatim transcript. Always refer back to the original audio. This is a working document and any amendments/corrections are welcome.



Summary

 

My Word - Denis Norden and Frank Muir. A BBC radio panel game about words

 

01:30

Word definitions

 

06:00

Something in common

 

10:35

This and that

 

 

Gay BC (11 July 1987) – including an item on the Dorian Society and Victoria Club rugby match in Wellington

 

23:20

Maurice Halder – Sports Roundup: rugby match between Victoria Club and the Dorian Society.. audio from the match sidelines

 

24:50

“D-O-R-I-A-N” rugby team chant.. “the whole thing was such a scream”.. the celebration.. team mascot Fran Wilde

 

26:10

Film Festival.. reading an article by Vito Russo.. homosexuality in mainstream film and gay cinema..

 

28:00

Gay BC theme music

 

 

Gay BC – fragment

 

28:40

Ian Kember – looking forward to next weeks programme.. flatmate wanted..

 

29:00

Gay BC theme music

 

 

Gay BC (ca 1986) – Access Radio, Wellington

 

30:30

Gay BC notices: The Wellington AIDS clinic has just opened.. Ascent.. Gay Task Force meetings.. Lesbian and Gay Rights Resource Centre which was burnt out.. is looking for new premises.. Lesbian and Gay Caucus of the Labour Party meeting..

 

 

Interview with Adrian Kelly on gay Roman Catholics

 

32:30

In a recent safe-sex survey within the gay community, 58% of respondents listed their spiritual orientation or upbringing as Catholic.. reading from ‘a cruel God’..

 

33:50

Adrian Kelly on gay Roman Catholics..

 

34:50

Kelly – my own interest in the Church is having nothing to do with it.. the Church is not interested in dissent.. big challenge for the Church to face.. controlling peoples sex lives.. alienation.. rigid hierarchy.. priests in private say quite different things..

 

38:00

Kelly – gay priests.. Church in America different from New Zealand.. New York diocese.. I can’t see how you can be gay and be involved in an organisation that is so anti-homosexual..

 

41:10

Gays in Film.. Vito Russo .. recent death of Rock Hudson..

 

42:00

Reading from: “The context of Cruising”