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

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. "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.

CORONATN STREET'S FIVE GAY CHARACTERS 'NOT A HUGE AMOUNT', SAYS CHARLIE CONDOU

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.

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