“SHERLOCK” co-creator Mark Gatiss has a new project — a series of original dramatic shorts for BBC Four charting a century of the U.K. gay experience.

    Grouped together under the title “Queers,” the eight 15-minute monologues begin with “The Man on the Platform,” set in 1917 and written by Gatiss himself.

    The monologues will be staged at the Old Vic theater in London in July before their television airings.

    Gatiss said he was “thrilled and delighted” to be curating the series.

    “It’s a marvellous opportunity to celebrate LGBT life and culture, to see how far we have come and how far we still have to go,” he went on.

    Actress and singer Jackie Clune and Brian Fillis, of “An Englishman in New York “and “The Curse of Steptoe “fame, will also write pieces for the project.

    The other five writers — who include Guardian journalist Gareth McLean and former U.K. poetry slam champion Keith Jarrett — will all be making their TV writing debuts.

    The pieces will address the “Wolfenden Report” of 1957, which recommended that homosexuality should no longer be a crime; the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which made gay relationships legal for men aged 21 and over; and the HIV crisis that decimated the gay community in the 1980s.

    Gatiss made his name as a member of the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe and went on to write for and appear in “Doctor Who.”

    He plays Mycroft Holmes in “Sherlock” and was recently seen as a debauched Prince Regent in period drama “Taboo.”

    (SD-Agencies)