Loud'n'proud

loud & proud was a series on BBC Radio 1 aimed at young lesbians and gay men and their friends.

Such was the prevailing level of homophobia at the time that Conservative Member of Parliament Peter Butler was reported in the press as saying that "The BBC have gone completely out of control.

The pilot of the series was first produced by OutSpoken during early 1992 (in the studios of Ocean Sound), with celebrity gay footballer Justin Fashanu as the presenter.

[4] Those reports into the general days output, also produced by OutSpoken Productions and fronted by Kevin Greening led to Radio 1 becoming a regular fixture at Gay Pride events for several years.

[5] The term "loud and proud" was also used in 2017 by BBC 6 Music for a celebration of 50 years since the "first steps towards legalising sexual freedom"[6]