Coronatn Street actor Antony Cotton received years abe om gay muny for 'mp' character Sean Tully | The Inpennt | The Inpennt

Contents:

• DO SEAN FALLY TELL HIS PARENTS THAT HE’S GAY FIREFLY LANE SEASON 2 PART 1?
• EASTENRS STAR SAYS SEAN TULLY'S A GAY STEREOTYPE
• CORONATN STREET ACTOR ANTONY COTTON RECEIVED YEARS ABE OM GAY MUNY FOR 'MP' CHARACTER SEAN TULLY
• 'CORONATN STREET' ACTOR ANTONY COTTON: 'I GET ABE FROM GAY VIEWERS OVER SEAN TULLY PORTRAYAL'
• JOHN PARTRIDGE SAYS GAY CORRIE CHARACTER IS A ‘STEREOTYPE’

DO SEAN FALLY TELL HIS PARENTS THAT HE’S GAY FIREFLY LANE SEASON 2 PART 1?

Sean believ his mother knew he was gay but never wanted to accept or adm . )In spe of the tepid rponse om his parents (who are later awkwardly supportive of their son and his new boyiend), Tully and Kate take him out to a gay bar and allow him to relish his eedom and liberatn. EastEnrs star says Sean Tully's a gay stereotype.

EASTENRS STAR SAYS SEAN TULLY'S A GAY STEREOTYPE

John told Attu magaze: "What I didn't want as a stereotype was what I ll a tea-time gay - the Sean Tully type of character is the reason my character is here. ' bee he is reprentg one of those shas of gay. "It may not be your taste, but if that character hadn't happened and been so succsful, I don't thk the BBC would have gone, 'Right, we need a gay character.

'" However, the 38-year-old admted that his vt-wearg character might be seen as a gay stereotype too. I'm gay.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsAntony Cotton told a nference at Manchter Pri’s ge ftival of the extent of abe he received, particularly om young, gay men, for his portrayal of mp soap character Sean Tully Coronatn Street.

CORONATN STREET ACTOR ANTONY COTTON RECEIVED YEARS ABE OM GAY MUNY FOR 'MP' CHARACTER SEAN TULLY

"I get a lot of stick om people who say, and the are people who are 21 years old, 'You've put the gay e back 21 years, '" he said. "So for every one of those people who say to me that Sean's a stereotype, and that he don't have a polil storyle, actually the fact he's never had to expla himself mak him the most polil gay character soap. The A-list opposg Rsia's anti-gay lawsShow all 15Cotton was joed for the panel discsn on ‘Comg Out, om Script to Screen’ by Tony Warren, the creator of the soap, script wrers Damon Rochefort, Debbie Oat and Jonathan Harvey, and -star Brooke Vcent.

"When was announced I was gog to Corrie an onle petn was set up to have me sacked bee people said I was gog to put the gay e back 25 years. "Warren, who is openly gay, also discsed the homophobia he faced when he first entered the entertament dtry as a scriptwrer for Granada. But the TV seri, Sean Mularkey (Jason McKnon) is Kate's olr brother, and plays a bigger role Kate and Tully’s liv, after teenage Tully (Ali Skovbye) fds out Sean is gay when she se him kissg his iend Robbie.

Todd Grimshaw was a nfed teen when he filmed Coronatn Street’s first ever gay kiss.

'CORONATN STREET' ACTOR ANTONY COTTON: 'I GET ABE FROM GAY VIEWERS OVER SEAN TULLY PORTRAYAL'

Todd beme the show’s first regular gay character and his g out storyle was creded wh brgg the show to the 21st century.

Had they got married however, would have end disaster bee Ted was gay.

Marc was gay then straight then gay aga (Cred: YouTube/ITV). Marc then started a relatnship wh Maria Connor, but Todd Grimshaw was termed to prove Marc was still gay and sced him. The biggt reason beg fear of his fay's reactn, pecially when Richard's ath was so symbolic of societal perceptns of homosexualy as dangero, immoral, and adly.

JOHN PARTRIDGE SAYS GAY CORRIE CHARACTER IS A ‘STEREOTYPE’

Along the way, dienc were met wh brief glimps of his life as a closeted gay man servg the ary and lovg Richard durg one of the most tumultuo tim for LGBTQIA+ people.

Wh this harsh realizatn that the world may not be prepared to accept gay people for who they are, he was drawn to the ary. While not outright stated, is likely that the Richard Firefly Lane character died due to plitns wh AIDS, which disproportnately affected gay men durg the 1980s and led to social and polil monizatn of them. Prr to their marriage, he tells Tully that, if he were to e out, he uld be kicked out of the ary — until 1993 when Print Clton stated the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, all gay men and women were barred om servg the ary.