Richard Dyer
See Richard Dyer discussing the UK's formative gay and lesbian film events on the occasion of his Researchers' Tales presentation at the BFI Library on 8 March 2010.
Professor Richard Dyer was at the forefront of programming lesbian and gay film in Britain prior to the formal establishment of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
In 1977 he organised, with Brian Baxter of the BFI, the first season of lesbian and gay film at the National Film Theatre in London (only months after the first such event took place in San Francisco) and was involved with gay film programming and activism in Birmingham earlier in the decade. The London season was accompanied by a BFI publication Gays and Film and a number of seminars.
Programme for the Images of Homosexuality season at the NFT, July 1977 - pdf
Richard Dyer teaches Film Studies at King's College, London. He is the author of a number of books, including the following on lesbian and gay issues:
- Stars: new edition [with Paul MacDonald] (BFI, 1998)
- Heavenly Bodies: film stars and society, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2004)
- Now You See It: studies in Lesbian and Gay film, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2003)
- Only Entertainment, 2nd edition (Routledge, 1992)
- The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2002)
- BFI Film Classics: Brief Encounter (BFI, 1993)
- White (Routledge, 1997)
- BFI Modern Classics: Seven (BFI, 1999)
- The Culture of Queers (Routledge, 2002)
- Pastiche (Routledge, 2006)
