Years & Years sger and actor Olly Alexanr spoke to TODAY about g out as gay, It's a S, and havg queerns as a missn his art.
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- OLLY ALEXANR WIKI, BOYIEND, PARTNER, GAY, FAY, SKS, HEIGHT
- OLLY ALEXANR SET TO BE NEW DOCTOR WHO AS FIRST GAY ACTOR TO PLAY TIME LORD
- GROWG UP GAY SGER OLLY ALEXANR'S HOME TOWN THE FORT OF DEANFOR PRI MONTH WE TALKED TO LGBTQ PEOPLE THE TOWN WHERE THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN GREW UPGLOUCTERSHIRELIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJA HUGHSENR DIGAL REPORTER15:11, 4 JUL 2021BOOKMARKNEVER MISS THE LATT LOL NEWS AGA BY SIGNG UP TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS THE LATT LOL NEWS AGA BY SIGNG UP TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- GAY ACTOR OLLY ALEXANR APPARENTLY THE NEW DOCTOR WHO
OLLY ALEXANR WIKI, BOYIEND, PARTNER, GAY, FAY, SKS, HEIGHT
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Oktar Yalk for The New York TimLike the character he plays “It’s a S, ” the actor and sger stggled wh beg gay. 20, 2021LONDON — When Olly Alexanr burst to tears shootg a scene of “It’s a S, ” no one was very the show, which me to HBO Max on Thursday and follows a group of iends embracg the gay culture of ’80s London unr the shadow of AIDS, was emotnal for many of the st and crew — and Alexanr is as fortable showg his vulnerabili as the character he plays, Rchie, is at flectg them. ” Peter Hoar, the director of “It’s a S, ” psed scene qutn, which after Rchie and his iends are arrted prottg the Brish ernment’s actn on AIDS, is one of many the show that explore how the epimic vastated gay men’s we meet Rchie, he is an impishly nfint but naïve 18-year-old who has jt moved to London, wh dreams of beg an actor.
OLLY ALEXANR SET TO BE NEW DOCTOR WHO AS FIRST GAY ACTOR TO PLAY TIME LORD
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) So when Alexanr heard Rsell T Davi, the show’s creator, was terted him for the lead role, the opportuny “ma poetic sense, ” Alexanr an terview, Davi said the show was “st gay as gay, which is my policy. When he was 14, his parents separated; he’d only seen his father a handful of tim sce, he was an even more ght environment, and Alexanr experienced homophobic bullyg om age 9.
”The speech ught the tert of TV producers, and, 2017, he onted a BBC documentary lled “Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay. “I ed to be so, so driven, ” he said, but now he was puttg ls prsure on was happy, he add, to thk back on what he’d already achieved, and how much has changed sce he was a ltle boy who wished he wasn’t gay. 'I'm gay and I want people to know!
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GROWG UP GAY SGER OLLY ALEXANR'S HOME TOWN THE FORT OF DEANFOR PRI MONTH WE TALKED TO LGBTQ PEOPLE THE TOWN WHERE THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN GREW UPGLOUCTERSHIRELIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJA HUGHSENR DIGAL REPORTER15:11, 4 JUL 2021BOOKMARKNEVER MISS THE LATT LOL NEWS AGA BY SIGNG UP TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS THE LATT LOL NEWS AGA BY SIGNG UP TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
In the very begng, I never felt like I was gonna set out on this explicly gay journey. "I felt really unfortable wh anybody thkg I was gay... ”I knew I wasn’t straight, but I was fely not ready to accept that I was gay yet.
GAY ACTOR OLLY ALEXANR APPARENTLY THE NEW DOCTOR WHO
I felt really unfortable wh anybody thkg I was gay, terms of people the dtry, bee I thought would close doors for me.
I was kd of vg people to jt assume that I was gay and then I wouldn’t have to e out. “In a way you make up for lost time bee I spent a lot of time wishg I wasn’t gay and now, I cherish so much, ” he said. “The more I learn about gay history and other queer people, I jt love .
""I spent a lot of time wishg I wasn’t gay and now, I cherish so much. Alexanr starred “It’s a S, ” an acclaimed 2021 BBC seri that tells the story of gay men livg London amid the HIV/AIDS epimic of the 1980s.