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Contents:

• LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE
• GAY UPL AT HOME THE VILLAG
• THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY THE COUNTRYSI
• MATT LUS FENDS 'ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE' SK
• THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE? EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAYS AND LBIANS RAL SLOVENIA
• THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE: WE MT CHALLENGE METERONORMATIVY
• GAY RAL AMERI: UP TO 5 PERCENT OF RAL RINTS ARE LGBTQ, REPORT FDS
• ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE?
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY MAP
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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.

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‘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. Sce the show end 2005, the sketch has gaed a lot of cricism for s ls than plimentary portrayal of gay men. 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.

"You n tell jt about anyone around here that you're gay, and you won't have a problem, '' said Villag rint Lda Bernat. Wily known as a cril votg bloc for right-wg ndidat, is also, ls nspicuoly, home to a thrivg gay Rabow club has no head unt — years of discrimatn have ma the gay muny leery of lists — but emails reach close to 2, leads to creasgly crlo qutns:1.

THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY THE COUNTRYSI

''It was the ncept of never havg to leave the neighborhood — the Villag has more than 100 rtrants, 45 golf urs, partment stor and almost every other necsy — that attracted Garv and O'Donnell om San Diego a social clubs for every nceivable persuasn already the Villag, the ia of gettg gay rints together seemed a is, until O'Donnell and Garv first tried 10 years ago. Gay upl who had grown fortable the muny, and were fancially secure retirement, no longer saw a reason to hi. While gay rints threw a prott-ee celebratn a town square after the recent Supreme Court cisn legalizg same-sex marriag, there were a number of hate-filled ments on lol msage boards Joseph Flynn, the Villag Democratic Club director, says those who sport liberal bumper stickers still n the risk of beg Flynn and Rabow members say the image of the Villag beg overn by the tea party is exaggerated and outdated.

Daffyd hails om the fictnal mg village of Llanwi Breffi, Wal, (not to be nfed wh the real life village of Llandwi Breffi, Wal) where he repeatedly and falsely claims to be the villag sole gay rint. Dpe this, Dafydd do not like to socialise wh gay people, don't tch on when people are gay or get volved homosexual activi. Dafydd equently lik to portray himself as a victim of society, actg as if he is livg an age where gay people are not tolerated.

Whenever anyone tri to teract wh him Dafydd will act as if the nocent people ma a homophobic remark about him. Although Daffyd's fay are perfectly fe and acceptg of their sons homosexualy, even they are not immune om Daffyd's lns or his biased and hypocril opns. He was therefore taken aback when his parents not only said they weren't fsed by , but admted that they had spected he was homosexual for some time.

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He left the room shocked horror however, when his mother and father dited that the rt of the fay wouldn't be bothered eher, given that most (if not all of them) were gay as well. Later on, when his brother Dewi admted that he was gay as well, Daffyd, far om beg unrstandg or acceptg was shocked and disgted. He orred Dew not to be gay and even tried to nvce him to be bisexual and when Dewi (wh the backg of Myfanwy and Pedro) refed, Daffyd rejected him.

Daffyd however, claimed that whilst he would really like to do all of the thgs, he would not be able to do so, due to his homosexualy. Actg as if they lived an age when homosexuals were not tolerated, Daffyd sisted that the moment his boss/landlords found out he was gay, they would fire/evict him. Due to his sistence upon beg the "only gay" wherever he go, Dafydd has absolutely no love life, and so far as we know, has never had any boyiends.

THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE? EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAYS AND LBIANS RAL SLOVENIA

In every sgle one of his appearanc, Dafydd Thomas will persistently claim that he is "The Only Gay the Village".

This was altered to "The Only Gay on Camp" Ltle Bra USA, and "The Only Gay on the Greek island of Mykonos" Ltle Bra Abroad.

THE ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE: WE MT CHALLENGE METERONORMATIVY

Over the urse of the seri, Thomas has meets numero gay people both and out of the village but eher don't realise or ref to accept that any of them are gay. Every time he tri to prove his the village/mp/islands sole gay rint will backfire spectacularly leavg Dafydd furiated and embarrassed.

He prepared to leave early claimg no one else would arrive, sayg a "feated tone" that he would always be the only gay the village.

Thomas took a stand agast his lol library claimg that they had no books for gays like himself. After creatg a small sectn for himself, the librarian showed him that they already had a gay sectn, which was very popular. Dafydd ma sure that none of the other rints of Llanwi Breffi heard about a gay gby match between them and the rints of another village.

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Even the Capta om the opposg team stated that he knew that there were other gay rints otherwise. The rints of Llanwi Breffi, for the most part are ually shown to be eher bisexual or full out gays.

In one episo, Dafydd tricked a group of gay Star Trek fans to leavg the pub by pretendg that Myfanwy had orred them to leave.

When Myfanwy later anised a 'Gay Night' for Dafydd the pub, gay men poured to the pub, only for Dafydd to chase them out wh a barstool shoutg "Get back, you gay bastards! He then remarked on her homophobia sayg he would not tolerate , only to turn round as he left and say "Dirty fat lezzers".

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When Dafydd disvered that many of the people at 'The Srecrow and Mrs Kg' were homosexual or bisexual followg the aforementned gby match, he left the pub, statg his tentns to leave the village sayg how disgtg he thought they were. As mentned earlier he liberately sabotaged the openg of Myfawny's greek gay bar by not handg out many leaflets, spe walkg past many gay people. In the first episo of Ltle Bra abroad, whilst 'promotg' Myfanwy's new bar, Dafydd stck up a nversatn wh a gay man and seemed to exprs some tert homosexual activi.

He still nied the man rmatn ncerng the bar, as he was not nvced that the man or any of the others he had met was gay.

Durg Dafydd's gay quiz Episo 1, he tted an "allegedly" homosexual man, by askg him what he believed to were qutns only a gay man uld answer.

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Dafydd‘s next qutn was which character om a well-known Brish televisn programme (Are You Beg Served) was gay.

When a gay man moved to the village Episo 1, Dafydd claimed that he was the gay and that the new guy was "probably jt a b poofy".

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The bt example was when he walked along a beach Mykonos full of gay men but claimed all of them were straight, spe two of the men kissg openly public. Throughout the shows nng, Daffyd always claimed that he was both homosexual and "the only gay the village".

Many fans have poted to several of Daffyd's noticeable tras and actns, which, their opn, ntradict his homosexual claims.

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He hypocrilly acc people of beg homophobe's, when he is the one who mak blatantly homophobic ments. As a rult of this, many Ltle Bra fans have e to the ncln that Daffyd is jt pretendg to be gay and isn't actually homosexual at all. In the last episo of Season 3, Dafydd cid to leave Llanwi Breffi, bee of the perceived homophobia.

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Myfanwy took him to a tra statn to tch a tra to London, after he sarstilly ngratulated the pub for forcg him to leave the village, bee of his homosexualy. When Myfanwy tells him that London he uld no longer be the only gay the village, Dafydd pretends to have missed his tra (even though another one would leave 5 mut), so he returns to the pub and asks for a Bardi and Coke. This article origally appeared on VICE her childhood, ep the hills of ral Shropshire, the gay postman om my mother's village hanged himself.

This was the 50s, when homosexualy was still illegal; when love had to be hidn behd the sexls screen of a sham marriage and the shame of your heart's sire end up tied around your throat like a, you may thk, has changed. While shows like Cucumber celebrate the world of urban gay culture (although 's taken long enough for a gay televisn program to e along aga), the liv of young LGBT farmers, herdsman, gamekeepers, and shop owners seem as silent as a stillborn lamb.

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