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'. 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 .
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.
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