The forgotten Gay Cable Network that changed LGBT history

(Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Bet_Noire/iStock/Getty Images Plus and GCN via NYU Fales Library)

On the evening of Dec. 25, 1982, residents of Woodstock, New York, turned on their TVs to find gay porn airing on their local public access station. The program, technically a review of gay pornography called Men & Films, included a clip of…