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YEARS & YEARS OLLY ALEXANR VOWS TO NTUE TO BE ‘VERY GAY’ AS HE SOPS LGBT AWARD

Wh gay ontman Olly Alexanr, Years & Years hs pop’s sweet spot. * olly years gay *

Wner Alexanr’s tribute to LGBT hero (Picture: Rex)Years & Years star Olly Alexanr explaed why ’s super important to be ‘very gay’ any room he walks to. Olly, who won plds for BBC documentary Growg Up Gay, soped the celebry of the year prize and said he wouldn’t be an out pop star whout ‘visible hero’ pavg the way for him.

‘I want to make you proud and ntue beg very gay whatever suatn I fd myself . Sir Elton and David Furnish also won priz (Picture: Rex)Echog Olly’s enuragement, the 73-year-old said: ‘Say loud, I’m gay and I’m proud. The ontman openly intifi as gay and has regularly talked about the difficulty that ….

The ontman openly intifi as gay and has regularly talked about the difficulty that wh beg open about your sexualy the mic dtry. However, such openns about his sexualy (Alexanr intifi as gay) - and subsequent statements support of the LGBTQ muny - might have been but a dream for the 27-year-old given the fact he was once told to keep quiet about his homosexualy for the sake of his band.

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

Olly Alexanr Years and Years terviewed by Alastair Campbell. The sger talks about male mental heath, LGBT polics, his battl wh prsn, self-harm and homophobia and asks if more gay micians should wre openly about love. * olly years gay *

However, the artist – who last year ma a BBC documentary about his experienc of homosexualy growg up – said he ignored her Imag'When a journalist did ask me about my sexualy, I said "Y, I'm gay and this song is about a man". To start, juxtapos a tradnally unmon pair, homosexualy and hols, by characterizg beg gay as a sacred act rather than the archaic view that ’s a s.

) “I make holy my sfulns when I pray, ” 27-year-old Alexanr explas to "And that's alludg a ltle b to beg on your kne, for whatever reason, but also that beg gay is also a blsg. “Beg able to have a platform where I n exprs my gay self is jt really wonrful, and I feel grateful, ” he that platform, Alexanr sheds light on others’ gay experienc addn to his own, and not only through mic.

In 2017, he released a BBC Documentary, Growg Up Gay, which shed light on mental health issu among LGBTQ youth.

YEARS & YEARS' OLLY ON GAY POP STARS USG MALE PRONOUNS IN THEIR MIC: "IT'S IMPORTANT"

* olly years gay *

For their sophomore rerd, Alexanr was spired by artists like David Bowie, Prce, and even Lady Gaga, who’ve created imagary worlds to go along wh their mic. “I wanted to wre a song about my experienc wh straight guys, bee I know a lot of other gay guys will relate to this. I thk pecially for men, we do have a hyper mascule culture that don't really allow men to be anythg other than straight—unls they're gay—and there's not really much between that.

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I thk a lot of gay and queer people grow up a culture that mak them feel ashamed of themselv and ashamed of their bodi and ashamed of their sir. That kd of stuff still exists for me, but at the same time, I'm at a place now where I'm so happy to be gay. It enpass so many tersectnal inti and unfortunately, the predomant narrative is the whe, gay du.

‘YEARS AND YEARS’ LEAD SGER OLLY ALEXANR REACTS TO ‘GAY MIC’ LABEL

Years & Years star Olly Alexanr has spoken ankly about his sire to see more gay artists g genr pronouns their mic to reflect their sexualy, and says he nscly tried to do that hontly on the band’s new rerd. “It’s kd of sad to me that we don’t have gay pop stars sgg about men g a male pronoun, but that uld change hopefully.

“I’d like to hear a gay artist exprs their sexualy a really open way, that’s somethg I’ve sort of tried to do a ltle b on this album, but to be able to talk about sex is possible new for gay artists, ” he add. You n almost feel his dience on the journey wh him, disverg the gay man he's gog to be.

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Bt Years Ever: Wh gay ontman Olly Alexanr, Years & Years hs pop’s sweet spot .

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