A BBC children's prenter has said that 'everyone at CBBC is eher gay or childls and don't like kids'. Kirsten O'Brien ma the claim durg a stand-up show at the Edburgh ftival
Contents:
- IS JT GAY OR MARRIED OR WHAT?
- THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
- BBC CHILDREN'S TV HOSTS 'ARE EHER GAY OR CHILDLS... AND THEY DON'T LIKE KIDS', CLAIMS CHILDREN'S PRENTER
IS JT GAY OR MARRIED OR WHAT?
LGBTQ+ stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer.
Homophobia is when people dislike (or have prejudice towards) gay until 1967 was illegal for men to be a same-sex relatnship Bra. Show of the Prenters Andy Gay and Harriet Carmichael CBeebi.
THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
But when I heard people ravg about the show, wrten by Rsell T Davi, I was stck by how many of them admted to knowg ltle about the epimic – and the stctn wreaked among the gay muny. That’s bee, even today's much more acceptg society, the history of the gay and lbian muny is largely a fotten history. For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans.
It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years. My novel is ridg on a wave of tert that dat back the UK to 2017 and the 50th anniversary of the begng of crimalisatn of homosexualy.
BBC CHILDREN'S TV HOSTS 'ARE EHER GAY OR CHILDLS... AND THEY DON'T LIKE KIDS', CLAIMS CHILDREN'S PRENTER
That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist.
Over on Instagram, The Aids Memorial shar photos and stori of people – predomantly gay men – who died of the disease, wrten by those who loved them. You’d not tch many queer al mers jottg down their memoirs – Crystal JeansHowever, 's fictn that’s very much drivg the phenomenon of brgg "lost" stori of gay life om the past to light. Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End).