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• LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE
• MATT LUS FENDS 'ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE' SK
• NOT ‘THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’: HAY ROLLS OUT WELE MAT FOR RABOW MUNY
• I AM THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE; (BUT IT'S NO LAUGHING MATTER).
• ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE MEME GENERATOR
• THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY THE COUNTRYSI
• QUTN: I'M THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE?
• THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE? EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAYS AND LBIANS RAL SLOVENIA
• THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE: WE MT CHALLENGE METERONORMATIVY

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’.

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.

MATT LUS FENDS 'ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE' SK

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.

Matt Lus has fend his Ltle Bra character Daffyd Thomas whose nng gag on the edy show was that he's 'the only gay the village'. Speakg on the Richard Herrg RHLSTP podst, the ic, 45, explaed that the character - who would wear bber sus, an earrg, and had bleached blon hair and overly-plucked eyebrows - was meant to be 'a celebratn' of gay people.

NOT ‘THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’: HAY ROLLS OUT WELE MAT FOR RABOW MUNY

'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 said.

Carry on mpg: Matt Lus has fend his Ltle Bra character Daffyd Thomas whose nng gag on the edy show was that he's 'the only gay the village''But people were labelled "the only gay the village" at school. 'He went on: '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.

'But people were labelled "the only gay the village" at school. It was meant as entertament, not to make young gay people sad' In fense: Speakg on the Richard Herrg RHLSTP podst, the ic, 45, explaed that the character - who would wear bber sus, an earrg, and had bleached blon hair and overly-plucked eyebrows - was meant to be 'a celebratn' of gay peopleMatt starred Ltle Bra alongsi David Walliams, pair soared to fame as a double act...

I AM THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE; (BUT IT'S NO LAUGHING MATTER).

Daffyd: Anyway, seeg as I am the only gay the village, I shouldn't thk anyone would be remotely terted. “In Sydney there are so many people that havg a gay inty, don’t matter as much, ” he says. “It was really nice to see so many young people watchg the para bee I thk we n all grow up feelg a ltle b like we’re the only gay the village, to e that phrase, and you’re not, ” she says.

"the only gay the village". But for Seimon Hugh, ral homophobia is no lghg matter.

The 21-year-old farmer's son really is the only gay his. "The tth is that if you're gay a small village,.

ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE MEME GENERATOR

But unlike the fictnal PVC-clad "homosexualist" om. his OTT gayns fails to shock, Seimon needn't go far to fd. homophobia.

Dpe knowg he was gay sce he was 12, Seimon only me out on. barmaid Myfanwy even anis a gay night to fd a boyiend for him. like Dafydd and I'd never even suggt holdg a gay night my.

A recent Gay Tim. survey of the 10 worst plac to be gay Bra featured only two. Middlex, where he was terrified of tellg everyone he was gay.

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Ironilly, there have actually been two gays rint Llanwi.

the age of 16 I was sure I was gay, but I was still a ser. revealed he was gay. 'gay' how I look and act, so I thk my parents now know.

ed to havg a gay their village, though not everyone has e. Surprisgly, he has experienced more extreme homophobia larger. "In the last two weeks, three of my gay iends have been.

QUTN: I'M THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE?

looked really surprised, but he'd picked a fight wh a gay. This article origally appeared on VICE her childhood, ep the hills of ral Shropshire, the gay postman om my mother's village hanged himself. This was the 50s, when homosexualy was still illegal; when love had to be hidn behd the sexls screen of a sham marriage and the shame of your heart's sire end up tied around your throat like a, you may thk, has changed.

While shows like Cucumber celebrate the world of urban gay culture (although 's taken long enough for a gay televisn program to e along aga), the liv of young LGBT farmers, herdsman, gamekeepers, and shop owners seem as silent as a stillborn lamb. Oh sure, The Archers has one gay uple. But young, sexually-active, amb gay people livg the untrysi?

"We have always had lbian, gay, bisexual, and trans members on the webse sce we lnched 2007, " says Heather Brown, om the datg webse Muddy Match. "At the moment, we have almost three tim as many gay and bisexual men than we do lbian or bisexual women.

THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE? EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAYS AND LBIANS RAL SLOVENIA

7 percent of women intified as gay or bisexual. "I grew up a ltle village Shropshire on the si of a hill, surround by fields, wh no street lights or tarmac, " says Josh, a young gay man I spoke to via email.

THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE: WE MT CHALLENGE METERONORMATIVY

Not only was there no one I uld theoretilly date but there was also no one I uld really talk to about datg or beg gay. "While homosexualy isn't a purely urban phenomenon, nor is homophobia a purely ral problem.

"There's this belief that big smopolan ci have the least prejudice to race and sexualy, " says a young gay mother who recently moved back to the Cumbrian village where she was raised. When we were livg Newstle and workg for the ernment we enuntered a lot more homophobia, pecially when my wife stggled to get paterny leave for the birth of our first child.

"At school I always had girliends—I thk that's bee I love beg around women—but I only had my first gay relatnship when I moved to Manchter.