Rsell Tovey, star of HBO's short-lived gay seri "Lookg," rells the negative reactns he faced om his own muny.
Contents:
- RSELL TOVEY: ‘BEG GAY MA MY REER'
- RSELL TOVEY: GAY MALE BACKLASH TO ‘LOOKG’ ‘BROKE ME, HONTLY’
- RSELL TOVEY: HE MAY BE PROUD BUT IS THE ‘WORST GAY EVER’ ACTUALLY SORRY?
RSELL TOVEY: ‘BEG GAY MA MY REER'
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“Of urse I’m not gay. On Facebook, a s of homophobia appears unr imag of the mpaign, fans mentg that they are whdrawg their support of clubs they’d loved all their liv, that they’re a disgrace, disgtg, evil. Seeg this, ’s perhaps unsurprisg there are no out gay players the premiership.
RSELL TOVEY: GAY MALE BACKLASH TO ‘LOOKG’ ‘BROKE ME, HONTLY’
But around his 30th birthday, somethg changed: Tovey (out sce he was 18) started playg gay.
The gay rol are the bt for me. Beg gay has ma my reer.
” As well as The Pass, he excelled HBO’s Lookg, about a group of men San Francis disverg the plexi of ntemporary gay relatnships; he plays a gay man Quanti; next year he stars Angels Ameri, and recently he appeared on Broadway as Rodolpho Arthur Miller’s A View om the Bridge. “And ’s ma me realise that jt like there’s not jt one way to play a straight person, or one story to tell, there are a billn fascatg wonrful stori to tell wh gay characters. He was unprepared for the backlash, for the accatns of ternalised homophobia, and wc a ltle as he remembers.
RSELL TOVEY: HE MAY BE PROUD BUT IS THE ‘WORST GAY EVER’ ACTUALLY SORRY?
If I’m gog to be seen as a ‘pneer’, a gay man and a performer, I need to make sure I put out a posive msage. He knew enough, though, to unrstand that homophobia still ns through the sport like a poisoned stream. Even Greg Clarke, the FA chairman, said he don’t thk football is ready for a gay player to e out, addg that might be a “year or two” before ’s safe.
Rangers midfielr Joey Barton has also admted that, the stands, if you “pull out of a tackle you’re a ‘poof’, ” while players e homophobic sults the trag ground. “I n’t image a gay uple feelg so fortable that they’d be happy to wanr down Wembley Way hand hand, n you? However ’s one thg for straight footballers to pot out homophobia, adds Donnelly, but que another for them to change.