Channel 4 is continuing its renewed policy of commissioning gay content by green lighting a documentary featuring gay men who came of age when homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967.

Forty years ago today, July 5, a bill to legalise homosexuality passed through its final stages in the House of Commons.

The Transparent Television commission, Queer As Old Folk is a 60-minute programme that includes a man who entered a Christian marriage earlier in life but has recently come out, and a man who married a woman who knew he was gay.

Transparent Television was set up last year by Jazz Thwaite, a former producer at Class Films, and Richard Hughes, formerly head of development for Flame Television.

Sarah Mulvey, Channel 4 commissioning editor for documentaries, commissioned the show. It will form part of the channel's gay rights season which begins later this month and includes playwright Kevin Elyot's drama Clapham Junction and How Gay Sex Changed the World, a documentary about social attitudes towards homosexuality over the past four decades.