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• OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP GAY
• GAY ACTOR OLLY ALEXANR APPARENTLY THE NEW DOCTOR WHO
• OLLY ALEXANR SET TO BE NEW DOCTOR WHO AS FIRST GAY ACTOR TO PLAY TIME LORD
• GROWG UP GAY SGER OLLY ALEXANR'S HOME TOWN THE FORT OF DEANFOR PRI MONTH WE TALKED TO LGBTQ PEOPLE THE TOWN WHERE THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN GREW UPGLOUCTERSHIRELIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJA HUGHSENR DIGAL REPORTER15:11, 4 JUL 2021BOOKMARKNEVER MISS THE LATT LOL NEWS AGA BY SIGNG UP TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS THE LATT LOL NEWS AGA BY SIGNG UP TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• OLLY ALEXANR WANTS TO PLAY A ‘MSED-UP GAY SUPERHERO’ AFTER NAWAY IT’S A S SUCCS
• OLLY ALEXANR WIKI, BOYIEND, PARTNER, GAY, FAY, SKS, HEIGHT
• OLLY ALEXANR: THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN DISCS POWERFUL NEW DOCUMENTARY ‘GROWG UP GAY’
• SOMEONE LABELLED YEARS & YEARS' MIC AS "GAY" AND EVERYONE JT CLAPPED BACK
• YEARS & YEARS' NEW SONG CELEBRAT THE "BLSG" OF BEG GAY
• OLLY ALEXANR: THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN DISCS POWERFUL NEW DOCUMENTARY ‘GROWG UP GAY’

OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP 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.

GAY ACTOR OLLY ALEXANR APPARENTLY THE NEW DOCTOR WHO

”The speech ught the tert of TV producers, and, 2017, he onted a BBC documentary lled “Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay. “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. 'I've never even worked wh a gay director, so was a pletely new experience.

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

We unrstood the characters [wh a] kd of shorthand that gay people unrstand.

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GROWG UP GAY SGER OLLY ALEXANR'S HOME TOWN THE FORT OF DEANFOR PRI MONTH WE TALKED TO LGBTQ PEOPLE THE TOWN WHERE THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN GREW UPGLOUCTERSHIRELIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJA HUGHSENR DIGAL REPORTER15:11, 4 JUL 2021BOOKMARKNEVER MISS THE LATT LOL NEWS AGA BY SIGNG UP TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS THE LATT LOL NEWS AGA BY SIGNG UP TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

"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.

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

”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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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. 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.