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Contents:

• IS ALAN DAVI GAY?
• CULTURE - REVIEW: COMEDIAN DAVI IS HAVG A GAY OLD TIME; ALAN DAVI TELLS WIL MARLOW HOW HE HAS WAED A LONG TIME FOR ANOTHER GREAT TV ROLE.
• IT’S A S IS A LOVE LETTER TO 1980S GAY CULTURE – AND HATE MAIL TO THE ERA’S HOMOPHOBIC HEGEMONY
• ONLY GAY ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS, SAYS FORMER DOCTOR WHO SCREENWRER RSELL T DAVI
• STRAIGHT HOLLYWOOD STARS 'SHOULD TURN DOWN GAY ROL FOR LGBT ACTORS', SAYS RSELL T DAVI

IS ALAN DAVI GAY?

Is Alan Davi gay? Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -Alan Davi is gay? Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Alan Davi is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg.

Although Alan Davi has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other. Although Alan Davi has never said to be homosexual, beg a famo artist and homosexual is somethg unrstood as normal by the society.

Do you know any rmatn regardg the qutn - Is Alan Davi gay?

CULTURE - REVIEW: COMEDIAN DAVI IS HAVG A GAY OLD TIME; ALAN DAVI TELLS WIL MARLOW HOW HE HAS WAED A LONG TIME FOR ANOTHER GREAT TV ROLE.

Apart om workg wh one of the most regnisable gay tellects of today, Davi has also starred the popular seri Jonathon Creek.

Davi has also played a gay man the televisn seri, Bob & Rose.

Well, he played a gay man who fell love wh a woman – work that one out. The love story followed Bob, played by Davi, a gay man who fell love wh a woman lled Rose. Davi who he scribed as ‘the gayt man he knew’.

IT’S A S IS A LOVE LETTER TO 1980S GAY CULTURE – AND HATE MAIL TO THE ERA’S HOMOPHOBIC HEGEMONY

‘It was a bold thg to put on mercial televisn; was bolr to make a show where a gay character was the lead even though was a gay character the procs of turng straight. For Davi, a straight man playg a gay man who fell love wh a woman, he found slightly ‘nfg’. ‘It’s a b worryg when you play any part, that you’re nvcg but there’s fely an extra element to when you’re beg asked to play a gay man and you’re not a gay man.

And of urse, gay men are every walk of life and every profsn and they are all shap and siz.

ONLY GAY ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS, SAYS FORMER DOCTOR WHO SCREENWRER RSELL T DAVI

‘He was a school teacher… he didn’t que f , jt wh the gay scene he was part of when he was younger – he was that suatn you get to your 30s when you’re not sure if you want to go out every weekend.

of a gay man who falls love wh a woman. a gay teacher, Bob, a man que happy wh his life. The character of Bob might be the first mastream romantic gay.

people's homophobia, ' he says.

STRAIGHT HOLLYWOOD STARS 'SHOULD TURN DOWN GAY ROL FOR LGBT ACTORS', SAYS RSELL T DAVI

get a gay lead on TV is if he's shown the love of a good woman and. 'The thg wh Bob is he's que happy beg gay.

thkg, 'Well how do gay men kiss? The affair had earlier nfound popular belief that Bent was gay when he let slip tails of their relatnship to a US magaze 75-year-old wrer last week said the media ed his untentnal revelatn to "somehow out me as not beg homosexual". When asked once by the actor Sir Ian McKellen at an Aids benef whether he was heterosexual or homosexual, Bent replied: "That's a b like askg a man crawlg across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

"Davi once said: "He was always gay, but he thought men didn't like him. [on whom he'd marry if he were gay] I n't have someone towerg over me, so I'd want someone small.