Neil BakerBeautiful Thing is available to rent, buy and stream on All 4.
Let’s take a trip back to the summer of 1996; “The Spice Girls” were wannabes, “Dodgy” were wondering whether they were “Good Enough”, and Baddiel, Skinner, and “The Lightning Seeds” were obsessed with “Three Lions”. Meanwhile, in cinemas, The Muppets were visiting Treasure Island, and aliens were blowing up The White House just in time for Independence Day. At the same time, the political world was rocked by. a deadly IRA bomb in Manchester, injuring 200. For the LGBTQ+ community in Britain, the ongoing fight for equality and representation began to challenge the accepted homophobia in schools, media, and employment, paving the way for some of the most significant changes in LGBTQ+ equality to come from 1997-2000. Change was on the way in Britain, and a groundbreaking 1993 play by Jonathan Harvey, Beautiful Thing, was about to leap from the stage to the screen and change countless young lives forever.
