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OPENLY GAY ALISTAIR APPLETON [TV PRENTER] PARTNER & FAY INFO
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He is openly gay and revealed his sexualy when he was at Universy. But an article Gay Tim, he admted that he fully accepted his sexualy while he was livg Poland and Germany. It took about two years for his fay members to adm that he was gay entirely.
He is a supporter of gay rights and gay marriag. Even though he do not prefer to hi the fact that he is gay, he prefers to keep his love life private.
Kristian Digby, host of BBC1’s daytime property show To Buy Or Not To Buy, was found his home by a worried iend who had e to check on 32-year-old homosexual had suffoted and had a plastic b ler over his head, the urt Digby, who also prented Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, was found by female pal Asiya Rasheed who rented a room om him at one of his properti Stratford, east London. I recently me out as a gay theatre director. I've been out as a gay man for about 15 years and have been workg as a theatre director for about the same amount of time.
GAY THEATRE: G OUT OR GOG BACK?
But this year I beme a gay theatre director wh two plays examg gay polics: The Act at Ovalhoe and the Natnal Youth Theatre's Tory Boyz the Wt End. Unsurprisgly, there is a large nstuency of directors and wrers who are gay, but currently very few people theatre wh the appete for chroniclg and explorg gay culture and gay theatre is at a crossroads.
Recently there have been some excg iativ, such as the gay playwrg programme and ftival at Greenwich, the Above The Stag venue for gay theatre that reopens a new Vxhall home at Christmas, and of urse Ovalhoe, which has been champng queer voic for 50 the venu and pani, val though they are, replace other, often better fund pani and venu such as the Drill Hall, or Queer up North, who both lost their fundg a number of years ago, brgg to an end a long herage. And why do we need even gay theatre, gay venu, gay plays the twenty-first century?