Gifford Skinner will regale you with stories of his bits of trade in his posh accent! (Image via video still)

Via Gr8erDays: I loved this 1981 episode of Gay Life, which contains some invaluable first-person reporting on what it was like to be gay in the '30s, before the swell of homophobia in the '50s and during the formation of the very notion of gay people as a specific type of person. You will not be bored, and historian Jeffrey Weeks does a great job ...