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• CORONATN STREET'S FIVE GAY CHARACTERS 'NOT A HUGE AMOUNT', SAYS CHARLIE CONDOU
• CORONATN STREET’S DANIEL BROCKLEBANK SHAR TAILS OF SOAP’S FIRST GAY WEDDG STORYLE: ‘I’M HONOURED’
• DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG
• CORONATN STREET STAR ROB MALLARD REVEALS HE’S GAY AS CHARACTER DANIEL OSBOURNE ROMPS ON THE FACTORY FLOOR WH SEAD TKER
• CORONATN STREET: 'FOOTBALL IS READY TO HAVE A GAY PLAYER'
• CORONATN STREET CHARACTER OUT AS GAY STORYLE EXPLORG HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALLNEWER MICHAEL BAILEY IS KEEPG HIS SEXUALY A SECRET FOR FEAR OF HARMG HIS REERMENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYKATIE FZPATRICKSHOWBIZ AND TV WRER07:00, 10 SEP 2019BOOKMARKJAM BAILEY (NATHAN GRAHAM) (IMAGE: JOSEPH SNLON/ITV/CORONATN STREET)FOR THE LATT WEATHERFIELD NEWS AND SPOILERS - SIGN UP HEREMORE 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 FOR THE LATT WEATHERFIELD NEWS AND SPOILERS - SIGN UP HEREINVALID 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!
• CORRIE ACTOR WANTS MORE GAY CHARACTERS
• CORONATN STREET'S GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE CHANGG NVERSATN ON HOMOPHOBIA

CORONATN STREET'S FIVE GAY CHARACTERS 'NOT A HUGE AMOUNT', SAYS CHARLIE CONDOU

Todd Grimshaw was a nfed teen when he filmed Coronatn Street’s first ever gay kiss. Todd beme the show’s first regular gay character and his g out storyle was creded wh brgg the show to the 21st century. Marc then started a relatnship wh Maria Connor, but Todd Grimshaw was termed to prove Marc was still gay and sced him.

We’re celebratg Pri Month, a time for tg on Pri history and celebratg our gay muny.

She soon began to realise she was gay and had feelgs for her bt iend Sian Powers. Later Paddy disvered Aaron vised a gay bar and when he asked him about his sexualy, Aaron attacked him. He first appeared 2008 and at the time actor, John Partridge, told Daily Star: “It’s about time EastEnrs had a gay character the show.

CORONATN STREET’S DANIEL BROCKLEBANK SHAR TAILS OF SOAP’S FIRST GAY WEDDG STORYLE: ‘I’M HONOURED’

Christian, like me, is an openly proud gay man and he is certaly gog to ffle a few feathers when he arriv.

On the day of Syed and Amira’s weddg, which was a huge episo, Syed admted to Christian that he is gay. Antony, like his character Sean, is openly gay and when Sean first appeared he was out and proud.

However when the two men went on a night out, they were both btally beaten up a homophobic attack. Former Coronatn Street actor Charlie Condou has weled the number of gay characters on the actor, 44, ma a dramatic ex om the show when his midwife character Marc Dent fell love wh Todd Grimshaw, played by Bno Langley, three years ago. Charlie Condou (Ian Wt/PA)Asked by Good Morng Bra -host Piers Man about havg five gay characters on the show, Charlie said: “A few years ago even, there would have only been your token gay character, jt like there was probably your token black character and I thk we have moved on om that.

DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG

“There have always been gay parents, but people tend to be more open about the days.

Coronatn Street is gearg up for s first gay marriage storyle, wh weddg bells store for Weatherfield uple Pl Foreman and Billy week, viewers are set to see the two s down for a ser nversatn, where the two discs their future as Pl's Motor Nrone Disease (MND) ntu to uple's chat about after Pl's nversatn wh fellow MND patient Shelly at the support group, who enurag Pl to take ntrol and do somethg he has always wanted to believ Pl is gog to propose to him and pulls out all the stops, but turns out Pl has somethg big to ask of Billy before he asks him to bee his hband.

"It's not the first time a gay weddg day on the bbl has occurred, but 's hopefully the first that succsfully go ahead. ITVRelated: Coronatn Street's Pla Wilx wds up fans over Elae and Stephen storyActor Daniel Brocklebank adms he feels "slightly honoured" to help brg the first Corrie gay weddg to screens.

CORONATN STREET STAR ROB MALLARD REVEALS HE’S GAY AS CHARACTER DANIEL OSBOURNE ROMPS ON THE FACTORY FLOOR WH SEAD TKER

"I mean, obvly there's been long nng gay characters the show, prr to Billy wh Todd and Sean and also Sophie.

(Image: ITV)Coronatn Street is gearg up for s first succsful on-screen gay marriage, as a storyle wh a tragic twist between uple Billy Mayhew and Pl an episo airg next week, as Pl’s Motor Nrone Disease (MND) worsens, he discs his future wh asks Billy to assist him endg his life when his sufferg be too much, proposg to him moments later, Digal Spy reported.

CORONATN STREET: 'FOOTBALL IS READY TO HAVE A GAY PLAYER'

“I mean, obvly there’s been long nng gay characters the show, prr to Billy wh Todd and Sean and also Sophie. And 2019, planned nuptials between fictnal Rana Habeeb and Kate Connor end wh one of the pair cshed to ath by a llapsed roof on their big post Coronatn Street’s Daniel Brocklebank shar tails of soap’s first gay weddg storyle: ‘I’m honoured’ appeared first on Attu. RevealedThe actor, who plays Ken Barlow's son Daniel, said he had no qualms about g out publiclyPublished: 18:26, 31 Jan 2017Updated: 17:36, 1 Feb 2017CORONATION Street's Rob Mallard has e out as gay.

The actor - who plays Ken Barlow's son Daniel Osbourne the ITV soap - has spoken publicly about beg a gay actor the untry's number one soap and his cisn to not hi who he is. "The only ncern I had at first was if I'm wh a female character, will an dience who knows I'm gay real life believe ?

CORONATN STREET CHARACTER OUT AS GAY STORYLE EXPLORG HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALLNEWER MICHAEL BAILEY IS KEEPG HIS SEXUALY A SECRET FOR FEAR OF HARMG HIS REERMENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYKATIE FZPATRICKSHOWBIZ AND TV WRER07:00, 10 SEP 2019BOOKMARKJAM BAILEY (NATHAN GRAHAM) (IMAGE: JOSEPH SNLON/ITV/CORONATN STREET)FOR THE LATT WEATHERFIELD NEWS AND SPOILERS - SIGN UP HEREMORE 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 FOR THE LATT WEATHERFIELD NEWS AND SPOILERS - SIGN UP HEREINVALID 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!

Image source, ITVCoronatn Street has been praised for s "really powerful" storyle about gay footballer Jam plot se Jam balance beg gay wh sportg ambns after g out to his all to a head this week, when mours about Jam's sexualy spread on social media, forcg his club to nont him about how he'll chary Stonewall tells Rad 1 Newsbeat hop the storyle will help "movg natnal nversatns on" about beg a gay man actor Nathan Graham, who plays Jam, says he hop the story might enurage young viewers who are LGBT and volved football to e out. "Image source, ITVImage ptn, Jam is approached by a journalist who threatens to out him, after personal rmatn is shared onleNathan's not part of the LGBT muny, but says he's "honoured and grateful" to have the chance to share this story wh Coronatn Street's Jam's storyle has unfold, viewers have seen him clash wh his dad Ed about his views on homosexualy and get to a relatnship wh another Corrie character, storyle certaly hasn't changed anythg yet - there are currently no profsnal footballers the UK who are openly has been praised by LGBT people who work sport like Craig Bratt, who's 22 and works the media team for Exeter source, Craig BrattImage ptn, A Crawley Town fan who sent abe to Craig onle was banned om the club for what he said"I thk 'll have a massive impact bee is a real issue that's affectg society, " Craig tells Newsbeat. "If there was that sort of character back then - pecially someone who was to sport and played football - would have ma thgs so much easier for me as a 15 or 16-year-old g out to my grew up a Crawley Town fan, and experienced homophobia directed at players while he was on the heard fans llg footballers "pansy", "fairy" and other more offensive words.

'This hasn't happened for 30 years'Bee there are no out gay players UK football, to prepare for the storyle on Corrie, Nathan met wh gby league player Keegan Hirst (who me out as gay 2015) to fd out about his experienc profsnal sport.

"If wasn't an issue, then I'd like to thk there would be some openly gay footballers out there the world right now. "Nathan's talkg about Jt Fashanu, who was the first male English profsnal football player to e out as gay while still playg, back 1990. "'No player wants to e out first'Craig says he believ "football is ready" for a player to e out as gay, but says he don't thk that'll happen anytime soon.

CORRIE ACTOR WANTS MORE GAY CHARACTERS

"No-one will really re and media will thk 'we don't need to n the gay football story anymore, bee we've already been there'.

"A lot of people fd hard to image that any top tier footballers - who are male - uld potentially be gay or bi, " says Robbie De Santos, Stonewall's director of sport. Stereotyp about what gay and bi men are like and what they uld be good at. Gay marriage is now legal the UK, same-sex upl n adopt children and the Brish ernment plans to abolish gay nversn are queer people now treated equally?

CORONATN STREET'S GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE CHANGG NVERSATN ON HOMOPHOBIA

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