I kissed a woman on Brookside 30 years ago – it changed Britain for good | Nicola Stephenson
The now famous Channel 4 lesbian kiss became a symbol of LGBTQ+ progress that resonates to this dayAs my Brookside co-star Anna Friel and I prepared to film our on-screen kiss 30 years ago, I could never have anticipated the cultural significance this simple act would have.It was 1994, when section 28 was in full force, prohibiting the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools, when Channel 4 aired the now famous lesbian kiss between my character, Margaret Clemence, and Friel’s, Beth Jordache, on the popular soap opera; the first time a kiss between two women had aired pre-watershed. It would for ever change the British media landscape and society’s perception of LGBTQ+ relationships.Nicola Stephenson is a TV, film and theatre actor Continue reading...
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