'Growg up, felt like I was too gay to be black and too black to be gay' - BBC Three

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• 'GROWG UP, FELT LIKE I WAS TOO GAY TO BE BLACK AND TOO BLACK TO BE GAY'

'GROWG UP, FELT LIKE I WAS TOO GAY TO BE BLACK AND TOO BLACK TO BE GAY'

If you own a televisn, then you've most likely seen Alphonso Mills—the attractive Black gay man wh dreadlocks the latt mercial for a new once-a-day anti-retroviral pill ed to treat people livg wh HIV. Whout people like you, would be taboo to thk that a Black gay man would be on a natnal mercial speakg openly about his posive HIV stat.

I realised that I would have to fally tell her the tth - I was gay.

Dpe knowg I was gay om the age of 14, took me almost 10 years to e out. I'm 28 now, and growg up, I didn’t know anyone who was gay, nor were there any black gay role mols on TV or the media.