Contents:
- EXCLIVE! RONAN PARKE: ‘I’VE ALWAYS INTIFIED AS GAY – AND I’VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO SAY ’
- SGER RONAN PARKE SAYS HE’S ALWAYS INTIFIED AS BEG GAY
EXCLIVE! RONAN PARKE: ‘I’VE ALWAYS INTIFIED AS GAY – AND I’VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO SAY ’
Such a rapid rise the then still-emergg age of social media me at a st, however: abive onle ments, often homophobic tone, me their hundreds, as a pre-teen Ronan was nonted wh an ugly prejudice his supportive parents had prevly helped shield him om.
So was ‘gay’ a label you already intified wh when you were young?
SGER RONAN PARKE SAYS HE’S ALWAYS INTIFIED AS BEG GAY
’ All dramatic [lghs] And they jt went ‘Yeah, yeah, we know, you’re gay’, and they jt got the remote and unmuted the TV! But I’ve always intified as a gay man and I’ve always been very proud to say . I thk for a lot of people, if they’re lled gay om a young age n sometim make harr to discs their sexualy, bee they almost don’t want to prove those bulli ‘right’.
I didn’t know any other gay people where I was om.
So much has changed for LGBT artists sce 2011 when you were on BGT – has the succs of other gay artists like Sam Smh or Olly Alexanr helped spire you to be open?