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• LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE
• LLANDWI BREFI - ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE
• MATT LUS FENDS 'ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE' SK
• LTLE BRA SPIR THE ONLY GAYS THE POLISH VILLAGE
• RUTH IS ONLY GAY MUM IN VILLAGE

LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE

Matt says the character was meant to be a ‘celebratn’ of gay people (Picture: Rex Featur, BBC)Comedian and actor Matt Lus has spoken out about his ntroversial Ltle Bra character Dafydd Thomas, better known as ‘the only gay the village’. Matt said he knows the character has been ed as a tool to bully young gay people, but sists that was not the show’s tentn. ‘I have had people who had ‘you are the only gay the village’ said to them and to was meant to be a celebratn, ’ he told Richard Herrg’s RHLSTP podst.

‘But people were labelled ‘the only gay the village’ at school. It was meant as entertament, not to make young gay people sad. Sce the show end 2005, the sketch has gaed a lot of cricism for s ls than plimentary portrayal of gay men.

LLANDWI BREFI - ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE

The character is emed offensive by many (Picture: BBC)‘I remember thkg there was a greeds to Ltle Bra and we jt wanted to show off as many characters as possible so we played black, whe, straight, gay, male, female, tall, short, whatever, ’ the 45-year-old told the podst. Commted 'homosexualist' Daffyd liv the Welsh town of Llandwi Brefi.

MATT LUS FENDS 'ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE' SK

Proud to be gay, Daffyd flnts his sexualy a variety of bber outfs, to the villagers' plete difference.

He ref to accept he's not the only 'gayer' the village, and is outraged when fellow gays trpass on his patch.

VIDEO: Daffyd's 'Gay Night' (Warng: some words) ». I'm sorry Myfanwy, but the Llanwi Breffi Amatr Dramatics Society is pletely homophobist.

LTLE BRA SPIR THE ONLY GAYS THE POLISH VILLAGE

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Llandwi Brefi - only gay the village. Llandwi Brefi was ma famo by the BBC televisn seri Ltle Bra where the character Daffyd Thomas (the only gay the village played by Matt Lus) lived.

RUTH IS ONLY GAY MUM IN VILLAGE

Daffyd: Anyway, seeg as I am the only gay the village, I shouldn't thk anyone would be remotely terted. Matt Lus has fend his Ltle Bra character Daffyd Thomas whose nng gag on the edy show was that he's 'the only gay the village'. Speakg on the Richard Herrg RHLSTP podst, the ic, 45, explaed that the character - who would wear bber sus, an earrg, and had bleached blon hair and overly-plucked eyebrows - was meant to be 'a celebratn' of gay people.

'I have had people who had "you are the only gay the village" said to them and to was meant to be a celebratn, ' he said. Carry on mpg: Matt Lus has fend his Ltle Bra character Daffyd Thomas whose nng gag on the edy show was that he's 'the only gay the village''But people were labelled "the only gay the village" at school.

'He went on: 'I remember thkg there was a greeds to Ltle Bra and we jt wanted to show off as many characters as possible so we played black, whe, straight, gay, male, female, tall, short, whatever. 'But people were labelled "the only gay the village" at school. It was meant as entertament, not to make young gay people sad' In fense: Speakg on the Richard Herrg RHLSTP podst, the ic, 45, explaed that the character - who would wear bber sus, an earrg, and had bleached blon hair and overly-plucked eyebrows - was meant to be 'a celebratn' of gay peopleMatt starred Ltle Bra alongsi David Walliams, pair soared to fame as a double act...

Photograph: Yui Mok/PAAcrdg to today's Sun, Ltle Bra, which has been nng on Polish TV sce April, has bee an spiratn to gay Pol their stggle agast homegrown prejudice. Unlikely as might sound, Matt Lus' Dafydd Thomas (the only gay the village) and David Walliams' Sebastian Love (the man love wh the prime mister) have bee ins of gay pri a untry whose ernment was nmned by the European Commissn for s homophobic irony, of urse, is that here Bra, the show has prompted gmbl om some liberal quarters for s slapstick portrayal of homosexual mor and manners. "The figure of Dafydd is now routely ed by anti-gay right-wgers, " wrote Johann Hari the Inpennt.

"Ltle Bra has ma a huge impact here, " said Mirka Makuchowska, of the Polish Campaign Agast Homophobia.

Poland's Print Lech Kaczynski banned gay march when he was mayor of Warsaw.

Earlier this year, on a vis to Ireland, he said that if homosexualy was eely promoted, the human race would disappear. "It's not the tert of any society to crease the number of homosexuals, " said his tw brother, Jaroslaw, Poland's Prime Mister.

)Actually, should e as no surprise that broad or bawdy pictns of homosexualy should spire a beleaguered gay unrground a culture where homophobia is tolerated, or even actively enuraged. To out and proud gay libbers, John Inman's mcg Mr Humphri looked like a hackneyed riture, but for ls monstrative gay men like Matthew Parris, he was a godsend, as was Kenh Williams a before.

"Hail to them all: the ludicro old queens; the drag artists; the pantomime homosexuals, " wrote Parris The Tim, after Inman died, this racial (racist? Personally, I n't get enough of Dafydd or Sebastian, but even if you've had your fill of Lus and Walliams, 's great to hear that they've cheered up Poland's embattled gay muny. Ltle Bra le "I'm the only gay the village" has been voted the bt edy tchphrase of all Lus's (Dafydd's) one-ler has beaten famo saygs om the lik of One Foot In The Grave, Blackadr and At late ic Tommy Cooper's "Jt like that" me send the poll of 3, 800 televisn viewers, followed by Homer Simpson's "D'oh!

I'm the only gay the village - Dafydd Ltle Bra 2. Homosexual.