Sam Green was an openly gay psychiatric nurse and Liberal politician who was elected as a member of Durham City Council in 1972.
[1] As one of his actions as a councillor, he asked for Gay News to be stocked in the city's libraries.
[4] Green retained his seat in the 1973 and 1976 local elections, but did not stand in the 1979 elections (when the seat was incorporated into a larger Crossgate and Framwelgate ward).
[5][6] In 1973, as part of long-running series World in Action, ITV broadcast a 30-minute documentary about Green and his election to Durham council, entitled "Conversations with a Gay Liberal".
[2] The documentary was selected in 1974 to be preserved in the National Film Archive[8] and was re-released on DVD in 2014 as part of World in Action: Volume 4.