EastEnrs' Gary Hail says BBC cut 1987 gay storyle bee of Tory legislatn - Mirror Onle

Contents:

• EASTENRS: MLIM CHARACTER TO HAVE GAY LOVE AFFAIR
• 'EASTENRS' ACTOR REVEALS HE IS GAY
• EASTENRS' GAY UPLE SYED AND CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE SHOW
• EASTENRS STAR CLAIMS BBC CUT THE SOAP’S FIRST GAY ROMANCE BEE OF THE ERNMENT’S ANTI-LGBT+ SECTN 28
• EASTENRS' GAY UPLE SYED AND CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE SHOW
• HOW MICHAEL CASHMAN CHANGED THE WORLD: OM EASTENRS' FIRST GAY KISS TO STONEWALL
• MICHAEL CASHMAN SHAR EMOTNAL REASON FOR EASTENRS RETURN AS PART OF TRAILBLAZG GAY UPLE
• LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
• EASTENRS' GARY HAIL SAYS BBC CUT 1987 GAY STORYLE BEE OF TORY LEGISLATN

EASTENRS: MLIM CHARACTER TO HAVE GAY LOVE AFFAIR

We’re celebratg Pri Month, a time for tg on Pri history and celebratg our gay muny. EastEnrs character Callum me out as gay 2019 (Cred: BBC). Later he admted to her that he was gay and began a relatnship wh Ben.

She soon began to realise she was gay and had feelgs for her bt iend Sian Powers. Later Paddy disvered Aaron vised a gay bar and when he asked him about his sexualy, Aaron attacked him. In urt Aaron admted he was gay.

He first appeared 2008 and at the time actor, John Partridge, told Daily Star: “It’s about time EastEnrs had a gay character the show.

'EASTENRS' ACTOR REVEALS HE IS GAY

Christian, like me, is an openly proud gay man and he is certaly gog to ffle a few feathers when he arriv. On the day of Syed and Amira’s weddg, which was a huge episo, Syed admted to Christian that he is gay. He later gave advice to Ben Mchell when he nfid him that he is gay.

Sean is openly gay (Cred: ITV).

EASTENRS' GAY UPLE SYED AND CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE SHOW

Antony, like his character Sean, is openly gay and when Sean first appeared he was out and proud.

The character Ben is gay (Cred: BBC). In 2011, Ben me out as gay, however at first Phil didn’t accept this. However when the two men went on a night out, they were both btally beaten up a homophobic attack.

Vansa is played by actrs Michelle Hardwick, who is openly gay. EastEnrs is to tackle one of the last taboos left soap, wh a storyle featurg a Mlim character embarkg on a gay love n reveal that the plot, which will h screens mid-June, will see Syed Masood, a Mlim property veloper wh a girliend who arrived Albert Square six weeks ago, fall for openly gay Christian Clarke.

EASTENRS STAR CLAIMS BBC CUT THE SOAP’S FIRST GAY ROMANCE BEE OF THE ERNMENT’S ANTI-LGBT+ SECTN 28

The pair will share an on-screen BBC has billed the storyle as a "tradnal love affair, albe wh a morn multicultural twist" BBC1 soap's productn team rearched the plot, which is bound to prove ntroversial wh some viewers, ntactg amics, gay Mlim support groups and members of the Mlim Council of Great the storyle, the 24-year-old Masood, played by Marc Elltt, fds his "relign and sexual feelgs nflict" character is currently datg Amira Shah as well as tryg to work his way back to his fay's good books followg his flight after losg money om the fay bs. "Although the storyle will foc on Masood's stggle wh his sexualy, Santer said there would be a "balance of opns" cludg that of his more nservative mother Zaab as well as Clarke and his fay and BBC nsulted Dr Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, associate profsor and rear the school of soclogy and social policy at the Universy of Nottgham, who has led rearch to the area, and Adnan Ali, head of Al-Fatiha, an ternatnal anisatn for gay Mlims.

EASTENRS' GAY UPLE SYED AND CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE SHOW

A Gallup survey earlier this month found that Brish Mlims hold more nservative opns towards homosexualy than European unterparts, wh none of the 500 people qutned believg that homosexual acts were morally plot is the latt a number of ntroversial storyl, wh the soap last year tacklg paedophilia.

EastEnrs actor Jake Maskall has revealed that he is gay and has a boyiend. Jake plays womanizg Danny Moon on the soap, currently havg an affair wh Sam Mchell (Kim Medlf), but he told Now magaze: "I'm gay and I've been wh my boyiend for 12 years. Image ptn, Elltt (right) said he was lookg forward to "new challeng"EastEnrs st members Marc Elltt and John Partridge, who play gay lovers Syed Masood and Christian Clarke, are to be wrten out of the BBC One soap.

Elltt said his time on the seri had been "brilliant", addg he was pleased at how had addrsed "the sensive subject matter of beg a gay Mlim". Dot Cotton wh EastEnrs’ first gay character (YouTube). A former EastEnrs actor has said that a planned gay storyle the 1980s was scrapped due to the anti-LGBT+ Sectn 28 law.

HOW MICHAEL CASHMAN CHANGED THE WORLD: OM EASTENRS' FIRST GAY KISS TO STONEWALL

The discrimatory Sectn 28 prohibed lol thori om promotg homosexualy England, Stland and Wal, and was enacted 1988.

EastEnrs actor claims gay uple’s storyle was cut bee of Sectn 28. Speakg at the 1987 Conservative Party nference, Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher famoly said: “Children who need to be tght to rpect tradnal moral valu are beg tght that they have an alienable right to be gay. In 1985, he had been approached by the creators of EastEnrs, Julia Smh and Tony Holland, to play Col Rsell – the Brish soap’s first gay character.

The News of the World ran a double-page spread, headled “Secret Gay Love of Aids Sre EastEnr”, which outed his partner and prted the uple’s photos and was even an attempt to orchtrate “sister” stori about him. Through his varied, high-profile reer and life-changg relatnship wh his hband, Pl Cottgham (an actor and mpaigner who died of ncer 2014), tells not jt the story of his life, but also the battle for LGBT equaly the the Sun vered the story of the EastEnrs gay kiss 1989When news broke that Cashman’s character would share the first gay kiss a Brish soap (a peck on the forehead), the backlash only tensified. By parison, his next on-screen kiss – Brish soap’s first gay kiss on the lips – passed worth ?

MICHAEL CASHMAN SHAR EMOTNAL REASON FOR EASTENRS RETURN AS PART OF TRAILBLAZG GAY UPLE

“Somebody said to me: ‘When you were on I ed to watch om behd the sofa bee I didn’t want my parents to know I was gay. In the 60s, gog to the police wasn’t really an optn for gay men, he says. “That this is what happened to gay men.

In May 1988, the Thatcher ernment had brought the Lol Government Act and s notor sectn 28, which prohibed the tentnal promotn of homosexualy by lol thori and schools.

”Throughout the 80s and 90s, gay people were often portrayed as predators by media anisatns supportive of sectn 28. And he is ncerned that some lbian, gay and bisexual people are jog .

LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO

“The fact that lbian and gay people are willg to sacrifice trans people …we’re rollg back the clock. In 1999, he beme the untry’s first openly gay Labour MEP and went on to be print of the European Parliament’s tergroup on gay and lbian issu, while also helpg nvce Tony Blair’s ernment to troduce same-sex civil partnerships.

He was ma a Labour peer 2014 and has champned issu such as pulsory LGBT-clive sex and relatnships year, he rigned om the Labour party after endorsg the pro-rema Liberal a gay rights march 1988 wh Ian McKellen. More than three s after they ma history as one of TV’s first gay upl, EastEnrs’ Col Rsell and Barry Clark are set to return to screens for Dot Cotton’s funeral. “Apparently, they ed the scene where Dot realis that Barry and Col share a bed schools to te people about gay relatnships.

EASTENRS' GARY HAIL SAYS BBC CUT 1987 GAY STORYLE BEE OF TORY LEGISLATN

At the risk of fallg to a stereotypil trope about gay men not beg able to mata a succsful mted relatnship, show boss have cid to add a third person to Callum and Ben's romance. Viewers are set to see the boys eyeg up the third chap as he wanrs through the Albert square market – before spottg him aga at the lol gay bar. Kate Oat, who operat as Head of Contug Drama at the BBC, has prevly discsed her cisn to make Callum and Ben a gay uple on the show.

It's not romantic any way, Eve is gay but don't fancy Stacey, she's grateful for what she's dog and they love each other like fay. While we may now take for granted the prence of queer figureheads on TV, ls than 30 years ago the mere prence of someone intifyg as gay uld send viewers to a tailsp, pecially as beg gay – or gay marriage – was illegal. For ’s Pri Week, we’ve looked back through the years of LGBT relatnships on TV, celebratg landmark moments and trailblazg shownners who fied the odds to get the sential scen on air while startg to break down homophobia and transphobia the procs.

Here are jt some of the characters and shows that broke new ground brgg lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer stori to our screens.