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• LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE
• LTLE BRA SPIR THE ONLY GAYS THE POLISH VILLAGE
• DAVID WALLIAMS: VAR ROL, JASON, SEBASTIAN, WORLD RERD BREAKER, EY HOWARD, INNER STATE SCHOOL TEACHER, LIZ, LOU TODD, MISS GRACE, PIANIST, RAY MCCOONEY, ANNE, APRIL MAY, BORIS THE BABYSTER, DENNIS WATERMAN, LIFEGUARD, LOUTODD, MSTREL, MRS. HARRISON, NEW GAY THE VILLAGE, ROD, VAR CHARACTERS
• LTLE BRA SPIR THE ONLY GAYS THE POLISH VILLAGE

LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE

Matt says the character was meant to be a ‘celebratn’ of gay people (Picture: Rex Featur, BBC)Comedian and actor Matt Lus has spoken out about his ntroversial Ltle Bra character Dafydd Thomas, better known as ‘the only gay the village’.

LTLE BRA SPIR THE ONLY GAYS THE POLISH VILLAGE

Matt said he knows the character has been ed as a tool to bully young gay people, but sists that was not the show’s tentn. ‘I have had people who had ‘you are the only gay the village’ said to them and to was meant to be a celebratn, ’ he told Richard Herrg’s RHLSTP podst. ‘But people were labelled ‘the only gay the village’ at school.

It was meant as entertament, not to make young gay people sad. Sce the show end 2005, the sketch has gaed a lot of cricism for s ls than plimentary portrayal of gay men. The character is emed offensive by many (Picture: BBC)‘I remember thkg there was a greeds to Ltle Bra and we jt wanted to show off as many characters as possible so we played black, whe, straight, gay, male, female, tall, short, whatever, ’ the 45-year-old told the podst.

Photograph: Yui Mok/PAAcrdg to today's Sun, Ltle Bra, which has been nng on Polish TV sce April, has bee an spiratn to gay Pol their stggle agast homegrown prejudice. Unlikely as might sound, Matt Lus' Dafydd Thomas (the only gay the village) and David Walliams' Sebastian Love (the man love wh the prime mister) have bee ins of gay pri a untry whose ernment was nmned by the European Commissn for s homophobic irony, of urse, is that here Bra, the show has prompted gmbl om some liberal quarters for s slapstick portrayal of homosexual mor and manners.

DAVID WALLIAMS: VAR ROL, JASON, SEBASTIAN, WORLD RERD BREAKER, EY HOWARD, INNER STATE SCHOOL TEACHER, LIZ, LOU TODD, MISS GRACE, PIANIST, RAY MCCOONEY, ANNE, APRIL MAY, BORIS THE BABYSTER, DENNIS WATERMAN, LIFEGUARD, LOUTODD, MSTREL, MRS. HARRISON, NEW GAY THE VILLAGE, ROD, VAR CHARACTERS

"The figure of Dafydd is now routely ed by anti-gay right-wgers, " wrote Johann Hari the Inpennt.

"Ltle Bra has ma a huge impact here, " said Mirka Makuchowska, of the Polish Campaign Agast Homophobia. Poland's Print Lech Kaczynski banned gay march when he was mayor of Warsaw.

LTLE BRA SPIR THE ONLY GAYS THE POLISH VILLAGE

Earlier this year, on a vis to Ireland, he said that if homosexualy was eely promoted, the human race would disappear. "It's not the tert of any society to crease the number of homosexuals, " said his tw brother, Jaroslaw, Poland's Prime Mister. )Actually, should e as no surprise that broad or bawdy pictns of homosexualy should spire a beleaguered gay unrground a culture where homophobia is tolerated, or even actively enuraged.

To out and proud gay libbers, John Inman's mcg Mr Humphri looked like a hackneyed riture, but for ls monstrative gay men like Matthew Parris, he was a godsend, as was Kenh Williams a before. "Hail to them all: the ludicro old queens; the drag artists; the pantomime homosexuals, " wrote Parris The Tim, after Inman died, this racial (racist? Personally, I n't get enough of Dafydd or Sebastian, but even if you've had your fill of Lus and Walliams, 's great to hear that they've cheered up Poland's embattled gay muny.

There was Andy and Lou, the malgerg, not-disabled disabled person wh his rer; Ey and Florence, the ladi who do lady thgs; Daffyd, the only gay the village; Vicky Pollard, the yeah-but-no-but teenager; Dudley and Tg Tong, the regular guy and his mail-orr bri … Even the act of scribg them, and tryg to mata ntral language around trop drippg wh ntempt, I’m fdg que drag. Disabily, homophobia, classism and prejudic of all sorts were all jt sms perpetrated on muggs here, and the perps were gettg away wh was liberately opaque about who the joke was actually on.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on June 2, 2006Matt Lus and David Walliams are back and have succsfully avoid a sophomore slump wh six episos om the send season of Ltle Bra.

Vicky Pollard is still a juvenile lquent, Kenny Craig is still g his hypnotism to exert fluence, Dafydd still thks he's "the only gay the village", Lou is still patiently rg for Andy and obliv to the fact Andy don't need his wheelchair, Sebastian Love still has a csh on the Prime Mister, Marjorie Daw is still torturg Pl, Mira, Pat, and the whole Fat Fighters gang, Dr. Commted 'homosexualist' Daffyd liv the Welsh town of Llandwi Brefi.

Proud to be gay, Daffyd flnts his sexualy a variety of bber outfs, to the villagers' plete difference.