- Title: Conduct Unbecoming
- Date: 9th November 2002
- Summary: Conduct Unbecoming tells the story of homosexual love caught in the middle of the Second World War and in the 'line of fire' of the military. A generation of young British and American gays were becoming aware of their sexuality, when the outbreak of WW2 threw them into the strict rules of the military. But in the midst of war, gays like straight soldiers learnt how to find lovers and new sexual awakenings began. John, wrote over 600 letters to his lover Steve. Sarah found her first feelings towards another woman, Jimmy began a relationship with his Sergeant. As our troops were moulded into soldiers they rose through the ranks; Naval Officers, Corporals in the Airforce, Psychiatric Nurses, Concert Party Drag Artists, our characters soon learnt how to do their bit for the war effort. But the military powers didn't agree. Conduct Unbecoming tells how our characters became caught up in Witch Hunts, as Commanding Officers sort to weed out homosexuals. Labelling them as 'undesirables', and 'lepers to society', classing them as 'unfit for combat' and shipping them back home to be imprisoned, placed in Mental Wards for psychiatric observation. Finally stripped of their uniforms and kicked out of the military with a Dishonourable Discharge. Conduct Unbecoming is a revealing, provocative and intimate story of how a generation of gay young men and women fought to keep their sexuality hidden from the military.
- Description:Commission for Hidden Love about gay relationships during World War 2 in the UK and the US.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:3Bm Television Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:09/11/2002
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 2000s