Why shouldn't Prce William stand up for gay rights? | Hannah Jane Parkson | The Guardian

Contents:

• PRCE WILLIAM APPEARS ON VER OF LEADG BRISH GAY MAGAZE
• WILLIAM'S TWEET TO GAY U.K SOCCER PLAYER CONTU HIS VOL LGBT SUPPORT
• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
• ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY
• PRCE WILLIAM IS ON THE COVER OF THIS BRISH GAY MAGAZE TO SPEAK UP AGAST LGBTQ BULLYG
• PRCE WILLIAM SAYS HE'D BE 'ABSOLUTELY FE' IF HIS CHILD ME OUT AS GAY — BUT WOULD WORRY ABOUT 'BACKLASH'
• PRCE WILLIAM APPEARS ON VER OF GAY MAGAZE ATTU
• PRCE WILLIAM WOULD BE 'ABSOLUTELY FE' IF ONE OF HIS CHILDREN WERE GAY
• PRCE WILLIAM SAYS THIS IS HOW HE'D REACT IF ONE OF HIS KIDS IS GAY — AND SHAR HIS FEARS
• PRCE WILLIAM WAS ASKED HOW HE'D REACT IF HIS KIDS CAME OUT AS GAY — AND HE HAD THE BT RPONSE
• PRCE WILLIAM: I’D BE ABSOLUTELY FE IF MY CHILDREN WERE GAY
• WHY SHOULDN'T PRCE WILLIAM STAND UP FOR GAY RIGHTS?
• PRCE WILLIAM SAYS HE’D BE ‘ABSOLUTELY FE’ HAVG A CHILD WHO IS GAY

PRCE WILLIAM APPEARS ON VER OF LEADG BRISH GAY MAGAZE

When visg the chary, Prce William said he would be "absolutely fe" if one of his children told him they were gay. Durg his vis to Albert Kennedy Tst, a gay man asked the De of Cambridge what he would do if one of his children me out.

WILLIAM'S TWEET TO GAY U.K SOCCER PLAYER CONTU HIS VOL LGBT SUPPORT

"It worri me, not bee of them beg gay, worri me as to how everyone else will react and perceive and then the prsure is then on them, " he said.

The nversatn specifilly foced on homophobia, bi-phobia, and transphobic bullyg and how each affects their mental health. Prce William appeared on the ver of Attu, a magaze geared towards a gay dience. Weeks after voicg his support for the LGBT muny, Prce William ma history 2016 by beg the first member of the royal fay to appear on the ver of a magaze geared towards a gay dience.

Lord Ivar Mountbatten beme the first royal fay member to e out as gay, and he married his partner 2018, wh the support of the royal fay. Lord Ivar Mountbatten is the first openly gay member of the royal fay.

BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE

Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a of Queen Elizabeth, me out as gay 2016, beg the first member of the royal fay to publicly intify as LGBTQ. Prce William lls for an end to bullyg an article Brish gay magaze Attu.

Prce William is featured on the ver of a leadg Brish gay magaze, which rri his remarks nmng the bullyg of LGBT people, the publitn announced Wednday. The article Attu magaze marks the first time a Brish royal has been photographed for the ver of a gay publitn, the magaze said.

The article me about after William ved the publitn to brg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people to Kensgton Palace to share their experienc on bullyg, a statement om Attu said.

ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY

“The young gay, lbian and transgenr dividuals I met through Attu are tly brave to speak out and to give hope to people who are gog through terrible bullyg right now.

Embassy London for victims of the terror attack on a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida. Found 1994, Attu bills self as the UK’s bt-sellg gay magaze, and has featured such celebri on s ver as Daniel Radcliffe, David Beckham, Lady Gaga and Jam Fran.

PRCE WILLIAM IS ON THE COVER OF THIS BRISH GAY MAGAZE TO SPEAK UP AGAST LGBTQ BULLYG

Prce William has sent a msage of support to Blackpool Football Club player Jake Daniels who beme only the send-ever active openly gay English profsnal soccer player this week after publicly revealg his number of LGBT profsnal sportsmen and women Bra is expected to be higher than the number who have publicly addrsed their sexualy, as part of a culture that has been scribed as "taboo.

"Speakg of soccer particular to Sky Sports Daniels said: "The subject of beg gay, or bi or queer men's football is still a taboo. And people see beg gay as beg weak, somethg you n be picked on for on the football field.

PRCE WILLIAM SAYS HE'D BE 'ABSOLUTELY FE' IF HIS CHILD ME OUT AS GAY — BUT WOULD WORRY ABOUT 'BACKLASH'

Prce William's tweet of support to Brish soccer player Jake Daniels, set, who me out as gay this week is a ntuatn of his LGBT support and advocy. In a statement on Blackpool FC's webse the player wrote:"I've known my whole life that I'm gay, and I now feel that I'm ready to e out and be myself. William as an LGBT AllyThe msage om the prce ntu his outspoken support for LGBT people that saw him bee the first member of the royal fay to s for the ver of a gay magaze 2016.

PRCE WILLIAM APPEARS ON VER OF GAY MAGAZE ATTU

William appeared on the ver of Brish gay tert magaze Attu, to which he also gave an terview discsg the mental health issu facg the LGBT muny's youngt members and the terview, William said: "No one should be bullied for their sexualy or any other reason…You should be proud of the person you are and you have nothg to be ashamed of.

In 2019 the prce once aga spoke publicly support of the LGBT muny while on a vis to the Albert Kennedy Tst, which offers assistance to LGBT youth who are at risk of his vis to the chary he took part an unprecented discsn about his own fay and how he and Kate would react if any of their three children intified as asked the qutn: "If your child one day the future said 'oh I'm gay, oh I'm lbian, ' whatever, how would you react? ""It worri me, not bee of them beg gay, " he nclud.

PRCE WILLIAM WOULD BE 'ABSOLUTELY FE' IF ONE OF HIS CHILDREN WERE GAY

Prce William is speakg out on homophobic bullyg – and is now the first royal ever to ver an LGBT magaze. William recently opened his Kensgton Palace home for a discsn wh Brish LGBT magaze Attu and met wh a group of ne people who have endured homophobic bullyg.

PRCE WILLIAM SAYS THIS IS HOW HE'D REACT IF ONE OF HIS KIDS IS GAY — AND SHAR HIS FEARS

The royal’s appearance on the ver of the magaze jt days after the mass shootg at the Orlando gay nightclub, Pulse.

PRCE WILLIAM WAS ASKED HOW HE'D REACT IF HIS KIDS CAME OUT AS GAY — AND HE HAD THE BT RPONSE

“The young gay, lbian and transgenr dividuals I met through Attu are tly brave to speak out and to give hope to people who are gog through terrible bullyg right now, ” he add. One of those was a mother, Mena Houghton, whose son Mark Houghton died 2010 at age 27 om an untentnal overdose after years of beg homophobilly bullied at school.

Todd – whose book Straight Jacket: How to be Gay and Happy is out this week – got a sense of how ep-seated William, Kate and Harry feel about the issue.

“I accepted that I was a gay man and now I work an attu-ee gay bar and am a drag queen on weekends, ” he said. However, his fay name giv him a higher profile Brish aristocratic circl; he is the great-nephew of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the World War II naval manr who led Allied ary forc southeast a reflectn of social change, royal attus to homosexualy have progrsed sce 1960 when Jeremy Fry, Lord Snowdon’s choice of bt man for his weddg to Prcs Margaret, was vetoed after was disvered he had a nvictn for a “mor homosexual offense. ”Harry and Meghan, who wed on May 19, have ma clear their support of gay rights, reportedly tellg gay legat om across Bra’s former empire, the Commonwealth that they would put LGBT issu at the ont of their William last year received the annual Brish LGBT Awards’ Celebry Straight Ally award.

PRCE WILLIAM: I’D BE ABSOLUTELY FE IF MY CHILDREN WERE GAY

In his acceptance vio, he lled out homophobic bullyg.

"William also ma history May 2016 as the first Brish royal to be featured on the ver a gay magaze.

WHY SHOULDN'T PRCE WILLIAM STAND UP FOR GAY RIGHTS?

[Nghty Gossip] Insirs tell Straight Shuter that while the whole world has been focg on Meghan and Prce Harry’s weddg, another Royal has been keepg a big secret – he is gay. “Wh certa circl London is wily known that this member of the fay is gay. In an unprecented move for the royal fay, Prce William appeared on the ver of major Brish gay magaze Attu an attempt to take a stand agast bullyg the LGBTQ a nversatn wh a group of young LGBTQ people, Prce William heard stori about bullyg, prsn, eatg disorrs, suici attempts, dg addictn, and low self-teem.

PRCE WILLIAM SAYS HE’D BE ‘ABSOLUTELY FE’ HAVG A CHILD WHO IS GAY

“The young gay, lbian and transgenr dividuals I met through Attu are tly brave to speak out and to give hope to people who are gog through terrible bullyg right now, ” he said a statement to the magaze. Durg his vis, the royal was asked about the possibily of any of his three children wh Kate Middleton — 5-year-old Prce Gee, 4-year-old Prcs Charlotte and year-old Prce Louis —one day g out as gay.

“If your child one day the future said, ‘Oh I'm gay, oh I'm lbian, ’ whatever, how would you react? "asked a young man who did not want to be intified, acrdg to the Daily the publitn’s royal rrponnt Rebec English reported, William — whose late mother, Prcs Diana, was hugely supportive of the LGBTQ muny — told reporters that he would be “absolutely fe” about such a he add that the child might face “backlash” om the prce said: ‘It worri me, not bee of them beg gay, worri me as to how everyone else will react and perceive and then the prsure is on them’— Rebec English (@RE_DailyMail) June 26, 2019“The one thg I’d be worried about is how they — particularly the rol my children fill — is how that is gog to be terpreted and seen, ” he add, the Telegraph reports. “It worri me, not bee of them beg gay, worri me as to how everyone else will react and perceive and then the prsure is then on them.

Prce William has bee the first member of the royal fay to be photographed for the ver of a gay send--le to the throne appears the July issue of Attu magaze, discsg the mental health implitns of homophobic, bi-phobic and transphobic ver photograph me om a shoot by Leigh Keily taken for the magaze. His mother, Prcs Diana, who was patron of the Natnal Aids Tst, appeared on the ver of the Gay Tim a 1997 tribute issue after her ver of the Attu edn, which is available for download now, shows a sg William, wearg a whe open-necked shirt, wh the ptn: “Makg history, Prce William meets Attu. The young gay, lbian and transgenr dividuals I met through Attu are tly brave to speak out and to give hope to people who are gog through terrible bullyg right now.