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Years & Years sger and actor Olly Alexanr spoke to TODAY about g out as gay, It's a S, and havg queerns as a missn his art.

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OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP GAY

Like the character he plays “It’s a S,” the actor and sger stggled wh beg gay. Now, he tells the world everythg. * alexander olly gay *

Oktar Yalk for The New York TimLike the character he plays “It’s a S, ” the actor and sger stggled wh beg gay. 20, 2021LONDON — When Olly Alexanr burst to tears shootg a scene of “It’s a S, ” no one was very the show, which me to HBO Max on Thursday and follows a group of iends embracg the gay culture of ’80s London unr the shadow of AIDS, was emotnal for many of the st and crew — and Alexanr is as fortable showg his vulnerabili as the character he plays, Rchie, is at flectg them.

” Peter Hoar, the director of “It’s a S, ” psed scene qutn, which after Rchie and his iends are arrted prottg the Brish ernment’s actn on AIDS, is one of many the show that explore how the epimic vastated gay men’s we meet Rchie, he is an impishly nfint but naïve 18-year-old who has jt moved to London, wh dreams of beg an actor.

) So when Alexanr heard Rsell T Davi, the show’s creator, was terted him for the lead role, the opportuny “ma poetic sense, ” Alexanr an terview, Davi said the show was “st gay as gay, which is my policy. When he was 14, his parents separated; he’d only seen his father a handful of tim sce, he was an even more ght environment, and Alexanr experienced homophobic bullyg om age 9. ”The speech ught the tert of TV producers, and, 2017, he onted a BBC documentary lled “Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay.

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“I ed to be so, so driven, ” he said, but now he was puttg ls prsure on was happy, he add, to thk back on what he’d already achieved, and how much has changed sce he was a ltle boy who wished he wasn’t gay. I'm a gay guy and I want people to know that, but 's tertg to see how quickly people bee unfortable when you want to assert your own sexualy.

OLLY ALEXANR SET TO BE NEW DOCTOR WHO AS FIRST GAY ACTOR TO PLAY TIME LORD

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'I've never even worked wh a gay director, so was a pletely new experience. We unrstood the characters [wh a] kd of shorthand that gay people unrstand.

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Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Years & Years' hs clu Kg, Dire and the new sgle SanctifySce Years & Years won the BBC's Sound of 2015, Olly Alexanr has been rehgly open about his the sger says he was advised to keep quiet about beg gay when the group got their rerd al. "When a journalist did ask me about my sexualy, I said 'Y, I'm gay and this song is about a man'. "The 27-year-old also talked about how he had stggled wh anxiety and prsn his youth, bee he had grown up " a society that tght me I had to behave a certa way and that beg gay was not normal" later ma a BBC documentary about his experienc, lled Growg Up Gay, and said that speakg ndidly about homosexualy had helped him bat his rponse took him by ptn, The sger has ed his mic and lyrics to talk about his experienc"I got so many msag om fans who wanted to share their story, who were stgglg wh their sexualy or genr inty, had problems at school or at home, " he said.

Ltle Mix star Ja Thirlwall, who ed her 25th birthday party December to raise money for Stonewall, was also gala dner, London, was held to mark the 30th anniversary of the troductn of Sectn 28 of the 1988 Lol Government law stated that uncils should not "tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy" their schools or other areas of their faced strong protts led by gay rights and equaly mpaigners until was repealed by the volved admistratn Stland 2000 and by the UK ernment wh rpect to England and Wal on Facebook, on Twter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbewsents. ” He asks, potg to a bag of poprn that’s stg on the floor between is still sg, energised om speakg about his film, but I n sense the onset of that adrenale edown that after you’ve exposed a vulnerable si of documentary, Growg up Gay, is about mental health the LGBTQ+ muny.

OLLY ALEXANR WANTS TO PLAY A ‘MSED-UP GAY SUPERHERO’ AFTER NAWAY IT’S A S SUCCS

Years & Years ontman Olly Alexanr discs his powerful new documentary Growg Up Gay, and beg a Diversy Role Mol. * alexander olly gay *

Growg up Gay div to all of this. ”A lot of people thk thgs have never been better for LGBTQ+ folk: both this month and next, thoands of people have/will be attendg Pri events which are takg place throughout the untry; we’ve earned the same marriage rights as straight upl; and later this month will mark the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act, which partially crimalised homosexualy England and ImagBut, acrdg to a recent report, a lot of might not be feelg too great. It’s an emotnal watch as Vicki adms she had been nial about Olly’s sexualy, fearful of what impact homophobia might have on his breaks down cryg ont of his mum, an exchange that will no doubt strike a chord wh other LGBTQ+ people.

”BBCOlly meets other people for whom growg up gay has challenged their mental health, om a 15-year-old schoolboy, bullied so badly he started self-harmg and nsired suici, to people wh dg problems and eatg Olly not, every LGBTQ+ viewer will know what ’s like to feel the 'shame' of growg up gay, and many of have heard siar stori om iends the muny.

OLLY ALEXANR WIKI, BOYIEND, PARTNER, GAY, FAY, SKS, HEIGHT

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I’ve long wonred if stereotypil expectatns of what 'gay life' should be make the problems ’s an ia that beg gay means dulgg a liftyle of excsive dg and alhol e. ”BBCOlly explas that one of his biggt fears filmg Growg Up Gay was that " would be too much of a negative portrayal of the queer experience”, at least to me, is a rehgly hont portrayal of what livg life as an LGBTQ+ person is actually like.

”If you have been affected by issu raised above, there's rmatn and support watch BBC Three's Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay on iPlayer. BBC Three - Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay. In this eye-openg film, young pop culture in Olly Alexanr explor why the gay muny is more vulnerable to mental health issu, as he opens up about his own long-term battl wh prsn.

OLLY ALEXANR: THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN DISCS POWERFUL NEW DOCUMENTARY ‘GROWG UP GAY’

In the film, Olly jos young people on their journeys battlg issu that parallel his own - om homophobic bullyg to eatg and anxiety disorrs - and along the way he asks what n be done to addrs them.

Gay Brannia. Gay Brannia Season. Bold and provotive stori explorg how far we’ve e sce beg gay was a crime.

Last year, Olly broke hearts wh his portrayal of Rchie Tozer It’s A S, a Channel 4 drama followg a group of gay men and their iends the midst of the Aids crisis 1980s London.

SOMEONE LABELLED YEARS & YEARS' MIC AS "GAY" AND EVERYONE JT CLAPPED BACK

Olly knows how to work a stage (Picture: Rters/John Marshall)In 2017, he prented a BBC Three documentary lled Growg Up Gay, which he explored the mental health issu that members of the LGBT+ muny n face.

YEARS & YEARS' NEW SONG CELEBRAT THE "BLSG" OF BEG GAY

Do you serly thk there is an illns that only kills gay men?

It n lculate that you're gay and kill you, but only if you're gay and no one else? How n tell you're gay? Chball really fucked up 13's as for 14, 1]gay, 2] not Sttish, 3] not northerner, 4] regular English accent.

OLLY ALEXANR: THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN DISCS POWERFUL NEW DOCUMENTARY ‘GROWG UP GAY’

I don't re who gets to be the next Doctor, as long as they're a gay man.

Olly is like the gay, male versn of Ra Ora.

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Olly Alexanr wants to play a gay superhero after It's a S succs .

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