Channel 4's Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life followed the story of Billy, who liv Ssex, om the age of 11, as he began g out to iends and fay about his sexualy.
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- ‘WHAT A HERO’: VIEWERS HEAP PRAISE ON TALE OF GAY TEENAGER WHO WENT OM ‘CLOSETED SCHOOLBOY’ TO DRAG PROM QUEEN – SPE HIS FATHER’S ‘REFAL TO ACCEPT’ HIS G OUT
- EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE
‘WHAT A HERO’: VIEWERS HEAP PRAISE ON TALE OF GAY TEENAGER WHO WENT OM ‘CLOSETED SCHOOLBOY’ TO DRAG PROM QUEEN – SPE HIS FATHER’S ‘REFAL TO ACCEPT’ HIS G OUT
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Filmed over 7 years, this unique documentary follows Billy as he als wh how his homosexualy is accepted by fay and peers, om child through to teenager. A new documentary has given sight to the life of a gay teenager - as he mak the transformatn om 'closeted schoolboy' to the 'only drag queen at prom'. Channel 4's Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life followed Billy, who liv Ssex, om the age of 11, as he began g out to iends and fay about his programme also looked at his stggl at home, as his father refed to accept his cisn to e out at such a young age - and said at one pot 'he did not believe he was gay'.
Scroll down for vio Billy, pictured wh his parents Dee and Rob, is the subject of a new Channel 4 documentary entled Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life Towards the end of the programme, Billy scrib how he has transformed om 'closeted schoolboy' to the only drag queen at prom - wearg towerg 10-ch heels One wrote 'What a hero', while another add: 'Amaz me how aware he was at such a young age'.
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EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE
' At the start of the show, he reveals how he me out to his fay at the age of seven and a half Billy, pictured wh his mother Dee, said his dad was not as supportive as his mumPuttg across his pot of view, his father Rob said: 'I don’t believe he is gay. 'At the moment, he’s got mixed feelgs, his hormon are gog mad, and I n’t see that he is [gay].
'He turned to such a horrible person, which was fact the reason why my parents divorced, bee of how he treated me and how homophobic he was, ' Billy explaed. When he was seven, Billy me out as gayWhen he was seven, Billy me out as Gay Pri Brighton, when he was 11, he was approached by a film crew and agreed to start documentg his the followg six years Billy filmed his 17, Billy (and this film) reveal what has been like growg up gay 21st-century Bra.
My Gay Life. Shot over several years, this film charts an experience of growg up gay morn Bra. Follows Billy, who was spotted by the producer at Gay Pri March Brighton drsed as Lady Gaga when he was 11, up to the age of 17.