I'm 43 – but I'm ma to feel like a dosr by younger gay men | Metro News

Contents:

• EASTENRS' GAY UPLE SYED AND CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE SHOW
• EASTENRS' GAY UPLE SYED AND CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE SHOW
• EXPLOSIVE EASTENRS EX: GAY LOVERS SYED AND CHRISTIAN LEAVG ALBERT SQUARE MASSIVE SHAKE-UP
• EASTENRS: MLIM CHARACTER TO HAVE GAY LOVE AFFAIR
• EASTENRS' MAX BOWN RELLS 'HOURS OF SNOGGG THE LD' A YEAR AFTER GAY KISS
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

EASTENRS' GAY UPLE SYED AND CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE SHOW

Memorable LGBTQ moments EastEnrs historyEastEnrs has been on our screens for more than 35 years – that time, the Walford-based soap has bee one of Bra’s most inic TV s but 1985, EastEnrs has never shied away om hard-htg storyl and has been at the foreont of LGBTQ reprentatn on Bize tak a look at some of the most memorable LGBTQ moments om the BBC One show’s gay kiss on a Brish soapCol Rsell was the first gay character on EastEnrs, appearg Albert Square jt over a year after the show’s first by Michael Cashman, there was ntroversy at the time when Col kissed boyiend Barry Clark (Gary Hail) 1987 – even though was jt a peck on the (Michael Cashman) and Barry (Gary Hall) were EastEnrs' first gay years later, Col and new character Guido Smh (Nicholas Donovan) shared the first mouth-to-mouth kiss on a Brish soap – an timated 17 ln people tuned to watch the uple’s beme one of the most ground-breakg scen soap history – but was emed so ntroversial that some MPs lled for the soap to be pulled om the air. Syed tells Christian he is gay and love wh him – but unr prsure om his fay, gets married to feelgs for Christian prove too strong – so Syed out. Mick held his teenage son his arms to liver a tear-jerkg speech, tellg Johnny that he loved him and there was nothg bad about beg gay, supportg him to e out through both of their stifled Carter (played by Sam Strike, send om left) and dad Mick (Danny Dyer, centre) both ma their first appearanc the soap December ’s mother Lda (Kellie Bright) ially stggled wh his sexualy – but the pair eventually make up as she tak him to his first Pri event where he meets new boyiend Gianlu Cavallo (Gabriele Lombardo) transgenr character played by transgenr actorKyle Slater’s arrival Albert Square was a landmark moment for marked the first time Brish soap history that a transgenr character had been played by a transgenr actor, wh Riley Carter Millgton takg on the historic ’s first appearanc showed him followg Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) before he later reveals he is her long-lost half-brother and the pair ultimately sharg his story wh Stacey, Kyle reveals that his mother Alison (Denise Welch) has never seen him as a man.

EASTENRS' GAY UPLE SYED AND CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE SHOW

Walford’s first Gay PriIn July 2019, Walford threw s first-ever Gay Pri event, wh an episo tacklg a number of LGBTQ ahead of London’s Gay Pri event, the episo was seen as celebratory, diverse and tnal, but also clud moments that remd the dience of the prejudice and discrimatn still faced by the LGBTQ muny to this the inic episo, Bernatte Taylor (Clair Norris) embrac her sexualy while celebratg her first Pri, havg e out as a lbian to her mother six months earlier, while Callum Highway (Tony Clay) stggl to e to terms wh his new, also known as Halfway, was engaged to Whney Dean (Shona McGarty) at the time of Pri and was helpg to get everythg anised for the big event. But he was mortified when brother Stuart (Ricky Champ) turned up and told him he saw him kissg Ben Mchell (Max Bown) the night 's been que the journey for Ben Mchell (Max Bown, pictured) and Callum Highway (Tony Clay), who recently got engaged the the urse of te love didn’t always n smoothly for Callum and Ben – Stuart beat up Ben later the Pri episo - the fan favoure duo went on to bee a uple, wh the pair eventually proposg to each other on the balny of lol gay bar The Prce Albert. He got to a relatnship wh Amira but battled wh his sexualy after startg a gay love affair wh Christian Clarke.

Syed was torn between his feelgs and his fah, nfsg to mother Zaab that he is gay on the day of his weddg, which was watched by 11. EastEnrs’ Marc Elltt opens up about secret stggle: ‘It was really hard’The actor played Syed Masood the BBC One soapMarc Elltt ma TV history by beg the first openly gay Mlim character a soap on EastEnrs. “I don’t see myself gog back there, ” he the moment Syed revealed he's gay here:However, Marc will be gracg our screens once aga wh his new look, as he mak his but Holby Cy next week as Domic Copeland’s new love tert – who is currently grievg followg his bt iend Arthur Digby’s ath.

BBCPl Coker's athAfter fally fdg happs wh boyiend Ben Mchell, Pl was celly snatched away om his fay after fallg victim to a homophobic attack.

EXPLOSIVE EASTENRS EX: GAY LOVERS SYED AND CHRISTIAN LEAVG ALBERT SQUARE MASSIVE SHAKE-UP

Image ptn, Elltt (right) said he was lookg forward to "new challeng"EastEnrs st members Marc Elltt and John Partridge, who play gay lovers Syed Masood and Christian Clarke, are to be wrten out of the BBC One soap. Elltt said his time on the seri had been "brilliant", addg he was pleased at how had addrsed "the sensive subject matter of beg a gay Mlim".

That was until he went agast his fay and relign, to embark on a forbidn gay love affair wh Christian Clarke. Marc Elltt ma TV history by beg the first openly gay Mlim character a soap, and post 'Enrs has toured var theatre productns, as well as playg doctor Isaac Mayfield Holby Cy om 2016 to 2017. The actor – gay Mlim Syed Masood the BBC soap – has chopped off his distctive scraggly locks for his role as a dashg doctor.

Read more:EastEnrs has first gay weddg Marc, 36, broke down taboos when Syed beme TV soap’s first openly gay Mlim. When Syed adms to his parents that his gay, Masood attempts to nvce Syed that he has a lovg wife, but Syed ignor this, and leav his home.

EASTENRS: MLIM CHARACTER TO HAVE GAY LOVE AFFAIR

Marc Ellt, 32, and John Partridge, 40, who play gay lovers Syed Masood and Christian Clarke, are beg wrten out. “I am pecially pleased that the show has tackled and raised awarens of the sensive subject of beg a gay Mlim. In a statement, he said the rporatn approached the portrayal of gay relatnships “exactly the same way” as heterosexual on – and sisted the scene was suable for pre-watershed viewg.

In 1987, EastEnrs screened one of the first ever gay snogs on primetime TV when barrow-boy Barry Clark kissed his yuppie boyiend Col Rsell. Wh fay betrayals and gay relatnships, the Masood’s have seen all. Wh fir, weddgs, fay betrayals and gay relatnships, the Masood’s have seen all.

EastEnrs is to tackle one of the last taboos left soap, wh a storyle featurg a Mlim character embarkg on a gay love n reveal that the plot, which will h screens mid-June, will see Syed Masood, a Mlim property veloper wh a girliend who arrived Albert Square six weeks ago, fall for openly gay Christian Clarke. The pair will share an on-screen BBC has billed the storyle as a "tradnal love affair, albe wh a morn multicultural twist" BBC1 soap's productn team rearched the plot, which is bound to prove ntroversial wh some viewers, ntactg amics, gay Mlim support groups and members of the Mlim Council of Great the storyle, the 24-year-old Masood, played by Marc Elltt, fds his "relign and sexual feelgs nflict" character is currently datg Amira Shah as well as tryg to work his way back to his fay's good books followg his flight after losg money om the fay bs.

EASTENRS' MAX BOWN RELLS 'HOURS OF SNOGGG THE LD' A YEAR AFTER GAY KISS

"Although the storyle will foc on Masood's stggle wh his sexualy, Santer said there would be a "balance of opns" cludg that of his more nservative mother Zaab as well as Clarke and his fay and BBC nsulted Dr Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, associate profsor and rear the school of soclogy and social policy at the Universy of Nottgham, who has led rearch to the area, and Adnan Ali, head of Al-Fatiha, an ternatnal anisatn for gay Mlims.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

A Gallup survey earlier this month found that Brish Mlims hold more nservative opns towards homosexualy than European unterparts, wh none of the 500 people qutned believg that homosexual acts were morally plot is the latt a number of ntroversial storyl, wh the soap last year tacklg paedophilia. On his weddg day, Syed adms to Christian that he is gay and love wh him, but feels unable to e out bee of his fay and fah. Syed fally reveals the tth to Amira kd of by accint and ultimately adms that he is gay.

Syed begs attendg therapy which he believ will cure him of his homosexualy, though prov unsuccsful. The followg day, Syed tells Christian he choos him and needs his help, and that he is both gay and Mlim. EastEnrs' Max Bown rells 'hours of snoggg the ld' a year after gay kissThe EastEnrs star, 25, joed the h soap as Ben Mchell last year and has sce been an unfettable character who sced Tony's character Callum HighwayVio LoadgVio UnavailableEastEnrs star rells 'hours of snoggg the ld' a year after gay kissMax Bown reflected on hours of snoggg Tony Clay's face off the ld a whole year after their kiss was aired.