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.
BBC CHILDREN'S TV HOSTS 'ARE EHER GAY OR CHILDLS... AND THEY DON'T LIKE KIDS', CLAIMS CHILDREN'S PRENTER
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. 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).