<p>Young man! Ever wonred what happened to the Village People? <strong>Ed Vulliamy</strong> trac the extraordary story of the first gay superstar group, still tourg after 30 years, wh a trail of dgs, ath and recrimatns their wake.</p>
Contents:
- LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE
- THE VILLAGE PEOPLE’S RANDY JON SPEAKS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY THE COUNTRYSI
LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE
The edian and actor says the 'only gay the village' character Dafydd Thomas was meant as entertament, not as a tool for bullyg. * who was gay in the village 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.
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.
THE VILLAGE PEOPLE’S RANDY JON SPEAKS ON GAY MARRIAGE
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Galsky: Randy there is so much panic and threat and disuragg speech around the gay marriage issue, what are your thoughts about if ‘THEY e to take gay marriage away’? So tell how to handle the stggle that ntu for gay rights the face of the Tmp admistratn, his picks and his braggadoc, his blter?
THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY THE COUNTRYSI
G: You are a happily married gay man.
A., ” “Macho Man, ” and “In the Navy, ” all -wrten by Willis, vertly embraced gay culture whout alienatg straight fans.
“All people got , om ltle children to grandmothers, straight people to gay people, didn’t matter, ” Willis says. There n be few venu urban Ameri ls readily associated wh flamboyant homosexual promiscuy than Yankee Stadium the Bronx: those upright Italian dads wh kids om the 'burbs to watch baseball on the terra of their forefathers; macho-hetero-Catholic Hispanics wh blg ccifix and a few rap-land ragga boys takg time out om Buju Banton bangg on about 'batty boys', at the bottom of the fifth ng, at every game, there they are: the groundsmen rakg the pch and leadg the crowd ntortg themselv to the same shap as their pretzels to spell out the letters set to mic boomg over the tannoy: 'YMCA' - the Village People's anthem to sodomy the showers. Siarly, the North Bank at Highbury was not exactly gay cisg terrory, but there was aga, the favoure song: 'One-nil to the Arsenal/ one-nil to the Arsenal' - to the tune of another Village People homosexual hymn, 'Go Wt'.