BCTV News Hour Access - SEARCH On Being Gay in Vancouver 1976

1976 · action · Margit Nance for BCTV

An investigative news segment for BCTV News Hour weekend series, Community Access with Margit Nance, broadcast during the weekend news hour show January 10-11, 1976. Members of the Society for Education, Action, Research and Counselling on Homosexuality (SEARCH), funded by the British Columbia Department of Human Resources, initiated this program by contacting Margit Nance at BCTV. The piece documents activism by gay men in Vancouver to increase public understandings of homosexuality. The piece features interviews with men about their experiences as gay men, the legal barriers to their equality with respect to citizenship, age of consent, and same-sex marriages, and the forms of discrimination gay men encounter. The piece also includes man-on-the-street interviews about the gay community, footage of outreach at the BC Police Academy (today the Justice Institute of British Columbia) by Warren Hague, SEARCH community worker, footage taken at an unnamed gay nightclub in Vancouver, and an interview with Dr. Malcolm Crane, Chairman of SEARCH. A bumper for the following week’s program on children with learning disabilities plays during the closing credits. Item produced in 1976 by Margit Nance for BCTV, Vancouver affiliate of the Global Television Network (formerly CTV) in British Columbia, Canada. Lawrence McDonald, director. Eric Cable, film. Bert Darbyshire, editor. Margit Nance, writer and producer. Geri Berner, production assistant. 18 mins. 40 secs.