Leonard Fch is a gay character om Grantchter. Leonard is a young Anglin prit, who is assigned as a curate to Sidney Chambers' parish Grantchter. While Sidney often gets volved the police bs and helps his iend spector Geordie Keatg wh his vtigatns, Leonard...
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- GRANTCHTER’S AL WEAVER REVEALS EMOTNAL TOLL OF FILMG LEONARD’S ARRT FOR BEG GAY: ‘I’VE NEVER FELT THAT SORT OF HATRED AND VRL’
- “GRANTCHTER” GO GAY
GRANTCHTER’S AL WEAVER REVEALS EMOTNAL TOLL OF FILMG LEONARD’S ARRT FOR BEG GAY: ‘I’VE NEVER FELT THAT SORT OF HATRED AND VRL’
* is leonard really gay in grantchester *
Al Weaver has opened up about the harst moments of filmg for Grantchter, as his character Leonard Fch was sentenced to prison for beg gay. Leonard had been sentenced to six months prison for gross cency, somethg which was a mon occurrence for gay men the 1950s, when the seri is set. Police at the time were searchg through the addrs books of gay men to fd who they were associatg wh, to which Al adds: ‘It was really shockg, was really horrendo so poor Leonard, ’s not very good for him.
Leonard was sentenced to six months prison on the show (Picture: BBC)Al revealed that the harst scene for him to film was Leonard’s journey to urt, where he faced an angry mob, which the actor found harrowg knowg that was the lived experience of so many gay men the past. One of the most emotnal thgs filmg that was before we got to the prison, I was arrivg to the urtroom wh my lawyer and there’s a bunch of plards outsi sayg “homosexuals are the vil” and thgs like that.
Grantchter star Al Weaver has revealed was 'horrific' for him to film scen where Leonard faced an angry mob on his way to urtVio LoadgVio UnavailableITV'S GRANTCHESTER SEASON THREE TRAILERGrantchter fans watched horrified this seri as village curate Leonard Fch was jailed for beg gay. At the end of a urt showdown, Leonard was sent to prison for six months – somethg many gay men Bra faced at that time. It wasn’t until 1967 that the Sexual Offenc Act crimalised nsensual homosexual acts private between two men over 21.
“GRANTCHTER” GO GAY
Season 6 of Grantchter referenc a piece of legislatn that once poisoned the liv of gay people across the U. Set ne years before homosexualy beme legal 1967, the TV seri looks at the ways the crimal jtice system victimized many.
Throughout s n, the show has addrsed crime while lvg to var social issu, cludg the nascent Black Civil Rights movement and now, season six, the illegal stat of gay people.
Grantchter’s curate, Leonard Fch (Al Weaver) is gay. That storyle has veloped over several seasons and has clud Leonard’s breach wh his father over beg gay, his relatnship wh photographer Daniel Marlowe (Oliver Dimsdale) and his “g out” to Will and the virage’s voutly relig hoekeeper Mrs.