Years and Years star Rsell Tovey says there's been a huge shift how gay characters are wrten on televisn an terview w Metro.
Contents:
- YEARS & YEARS' NEW SONG CELEBRAT THE "BLSG" OF BEG GAY
- YEARS & YEARS OLLY ALEXANR VOWS TO NTUE TO BE ‘VERY GAY’ AS HE SOPS LGBT AWARD
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- GAY RIGHTS
YEARS & YEARS' NEW SONG CELEBRAT THE "BLSG" OF BEG GAY
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YEARS & YEARS OLLY ALEXANR VOWS TO NTUE TO BE ‘VERY GAY’ AS HE SOPS LGBT AWARD
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AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
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GAY RIGHTS
Until hero like Eric Sex Edutn and the ladi of Orange Is The New Black, was near impossible to fd gay characters who weren’t fed by the their sexualy.
‘When to how gay people are reprented there’s been a plete shift om when I first started this bs, ’ he told . ‘There’s more opportuny to show there are billns of different straight people – so why is there only one way to portray gay people?
MORE: Rsell Tovey fends Jack Whehall after cricism over gay character: ‘Jt let him act’. He also said the track is a celebratn of beg part of the LGBTQ muny: “I feel like beg gay is a blsg.