Years and Years star Rsell Tovey says there's been a huge shift how gay characters are wrten on televisn an terview w Metro.
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YEARS & YEARS OLLY ALEXANR VOWS TO NTUE TO BE ‘VERY GAY’ AS HE SOPS LGBT AWARD
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Gay characters have e along durg Years and Years star Rsell Tovey’s reer (Picture: BBC/Getty)It’s been more 20 years sce Rsell Tovey first appeared on our screens as a teen The Mrs. Queer as Folk was still monly lled disgtg, legns of teenage girls were eher vastated or fur that Stephen Gately had e out as a gay man (bee he’d been blackmailed by prs) and was was illegal for same-sex upl to adopt a fay.
Until hero like Eric Sex Edutn and the ladi of Orange Is The New Black, was near impossible to fd gay characters who weren’t fed by the their sexualy. ‘When to how gay people are reprented there’s been a plete shift om when I first started this bs, ’ he told . ‘There’s more opportuny to show there are billns of different straight people – so why is there only one way to portray gay people?