Contents:
- STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
- CRAIG REVEL HORWOOD REVEALS HE’S ‘NOT GAY’ AND ‘WANTS A RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN’!
STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
"I was both gay and straight, but beg bisexual wasn't a big issue for me or her".
Homophobia is a ser and ntug problem, but was difficult this week not to enjoy aspects of the hoo-ha over Strictly Come Dancg. In what felt like a historil re-enactment of classic 1970s’ curta-twchg, 189 viewers plaed to the BBC about two men partnerg each other on primetime telly, and was hard to know what to lgh at first: the Mary Whehoe tone of the plats, the statement on Instagram by one of the dancers – realisg the full dramatic potential of the moment – that “love knows no boundari”, or the ia that the spectacle of two men dancg uld ever be the gayt thg about Strictly. Nohels, there was somethg vaguely fortg about the fact that, particularly the ntext of the recent LGBT teachg row, mastream culture at least, plats of this kd about gay reprentatn seem outdated to the pot of schools, of urse, the battle rag on.
CRAIG REVEL HORWOOD REVEALS HE’S ‘NOT GAY’ AND ‘WANTS A RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN’!
I looked up the wordg of Sectn 28 and was amazed to fd that, until was overturned 2003, not only did ban lol thori om “promotg” homosexualy, but that, like somethg drafted by the Wtboro Baptist Church, banned “the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”.
Bt to refer them to Alan Partridge: “For cryg out loud, if I really uldn’t bear to nsort wh homosexuals, do you really thk I’d have pursued a reer televisn? He even nfsed that he don’t even nsir himself gay. Strictly Come Dancg star Craig Revel Horwood, 56, is one of the untry's most famo gay ins.
But before he me out as bisexual, and later as gay, Craig was actually married to a woman - until she bedd his iend, he says. "Jane had fact thought I was gay when we first met. Craig went on to expla how his sexualy veloped another terview, as he realised he was gay not long after the divorce.