My Gay Life (2017) | BFI

Contents:

• ‘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

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'. His mother Dee add: 'We were stg the r, and I said if you were [gay] Billy, you n open up to me, I don’t have a problem wh .

' 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.

EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE

'At the moment, he’s got mixed feelgs, his hormon are gog mad, and I n’t see that he is [gay].