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Circuit Eleven Miami: 7: Gay Rip-off

on BBC Two England

Law-breakers, law-enforcers, lawyers, the law - in 13 frank documentary films set in Florida, USA.
Bruce Rowe is homosexual. When he picks up a young hitch-hiker called Charles Handy Bentley, it's the start of a nightmare, which ends in bondage and burglary. His is a classic dilemma. If he says nothing, he will lose his property. If he reports the matter, he will lose his reputation. For what happened was bizarre and embarrassing, and no details are spared when the matter comes up before Judge Richard Hickey. Rowe's predicament is even more serious, because Miami is undergoing one of its periodic bouts of moral indignation against homosexuality. The campaign is led by the Baptist Church, spearheaded by the singer Anita Bryant, and underpinned by a police choir - Cops for Christ.
However equal he is before the law, there could hardly be a worse time for a man like Bruce Rowe to put his case before a jury of six good citizens of Miami.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Rowe
Unknown:
Charles Handy Bentley
Unknown:
Judge Richard Ifickey.
Singer:
Anita Bryant
Film Cameraman:
Colin Deehan
Film Recordist:
John Pritchard
Film Editor:
Peter Gordon
Researcher:
Mo Bowyer
Executive Producer:
Roger Mills
Producer:
Mark Anderson

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