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Contents:
- RSELL T. DAVI EXPLAS WHY HE ONLY CASTS GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
- RSELL T DAVI FENDS NOT STG STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL
- IT’S A S IS A LOVE LETTER TO 1980S GAY CULTURE – AND HATE MAIL TO THE ERA’S HOMOPHOBIC HEGEMONY
- RSELL T DAVI: STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD NOT PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
- RSELL T DAVI SAYS GAY ROL SHOULD BE PLAYED BY GAY ACTORS: “IT’S ABOUT THENTICY”
RSELL T. DAVI EXPLAS WHY HE ONLY CASTS GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
Earlier this month, the crilly-acclaimed screenwrer, 57, said every gay character his upg Channel 4 drama It's A S will be played by gay actors. * russell t davies gay *
Davi, the Brish TV creator behd Queer as Folk, the BBC’s Doctor Who revival and recent h Years and Years, has discsed only stg gay actors the role of gay male characters. “I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance. It’s a S, followg a group of young gay men who move to London jt as the epimic starts and loosely based on Davi own experienc the early 1980s, stars Olly Alexanr, Neil Patrick Harris, and Stephen Fry.
RSELL T DAVI FENDS NOT STG STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL
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From 1999’s groundbreakg Queer as Folk, which put Manchter’s gay village unr the spotlight the bt way possible, to 2021’s vastatg AIDS drama It’s a S, queer people owe Davi a huge amount of gratu for tg the mass on what ’s like to live as an LGBTQ+ person Bra. Then, 1997, he brought ITV’s hotel drama seri The Grand, which featured an episo focg largely on Clive, the hotel’s gay barman. Imprsed by the gay episo he wrote The Grand, McKenzie enabled him to beg work on what would bee the UK’s semal piece of queer televisn: Queer As Folk.
IT’S A S IS A LOVE LETTER TO 1980S GAY CULTURE – AND HATE MAIL TO THE ERA’S HOMOPHOBIC HEGEMONY
Rsell T. Davi's "betifully gay" seri creat an evotive, personal time psule of an 1980s London bet by the Aids crisis. * russell t davies gay *
In the spir of celebratg Rsell T Davi, fans are thkg back to how to the seri – which featured a young, gay Nathan (Charlie Hunnam) gettg a rim-job the very first episo – changed the game. It was the first time I had seen gay men whose liv were as joyful, sexy and chaotic as me on screen, ” shared Matthew Hodson, director of AIDS awarens chary NAM.
It's a S is a masterpiece, Queer As Folk blew the mds of an entire gay generatn.
RSELL T DAVI: STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD NOT PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
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“I had never seen gay people picted a posive light before.
RSELL T DAVI SAYS GAY ROL SHOULD BE PLAYED BY GAY ACTORS: “IT’S ABOUT THENTICY”
The mass may have to stra to remember , but the three seri – Cucumber particular – have had gays a chokehold ever sce.
The drama featur Olly Alexanr as a young gay man lled Richie who arriv London September 1981. The drama als wh how AIDS impacted on the liv of many gay men and their fai.
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