Contents:
- STEPHEN K AMOS: 'I DON'T WANT TO BE LABELLED "THE BLACK GAY IC"'
- ‘THERE WERE VERY, VERY FEW OPENLY QUEER KIDS MY YEAR GROUP’: JOE LYCETT, COLM TóIBíN AND MORE ON HOW GAY LIFE HAS CHANGED
- GAY EDIAN STEPHEN K AMOS WAS PREPARED TO CHALLENGE POPE OVER HOMOSEXUALY
STEPHEN K AMOS: 'I DON'T WANT TO BE LABELLED "THE BLACK GAY IC"'
Pope Francis says gay men should not jo the clergyStephen K Amos was one of eight celebri – cludg L Dennis, Lley Joseph and Greg Rutherford – who trekked a 1, 000km sectn of the pilgrim’s walk om Canterbury to Rome for a BBC documentary on TV personali pleted the Via Francigena walk jt 15 days last September, as part of Pilgrimage: The Road To Rome. ”‘As a gay man, I don’t feel accepted’Viewers will watch as Amos rais the issue of LGBT people feelg ostracised the relign, and explas: “As a gay man, I don’t feel accepted”. ”The Catholic Church’s stance on LGBT peoplePrevly, Pope Francis reportedly suggted parents should take children who they believe were gay to a told Italian publitn La Stampa: “I would say first of all to pray— then, to not nmn, to talk, to unrstand, to make space for the son or dghter.
”L Dennis meets Pope Francis (Photo: BBC)The Roman Catholic Church ems homosexualy a s, wh the Pope admtg there was “no room” for such acts the liv of prits and nuns.
I know lots of ics who've left the untry and are tryg their hand Ameri bee they feel they're htg a glass ceilg 2006, your edy style changed when you did an Edburgh show which you spoke publicly for the first time about beg gay. And then I heard on the telly they'd found a body on Clapham Common, someone who'd been killed a homophobic attack, and saw the picture and was a iend of me.
‘THERE WERE VERY, VERY FEW OPENLY QUEER KIDS MY YEAR GROUP’: JOE LYCETT, COLM TóIBíN AND MORE ON HOW GAY LIFE HAS CHANGED
This lad me up to me after one show, a whe kid, about 19, very street savvy, and said: "I've been stgglg wh the issu but I'm gog to tell my mum that I'm gay today.
I've been asked to go on all sorts of programm to discs those issu and I've jt picked a few, bee I don't want to be labelled as "the black gay ic".
I didn't set out to be this role mol, but if 's all moratn and if you n spire and enurage younger people, then that's a great ma a documentary, Batty Man, for Channel 4 about homophobia the black muny. Joe Lycett, edianI spent most of my school years unr sectn 28 [a clse banng schools om “promotg homosexualy”] – somethg I only realised this year.
GAY EDIAN STEPHEN K AMOS WAS PREPARED TO CHALLENGE POPE OVER HOMOSEXUALY
So ’s no wonr homophobia was rife and there were very, very few openly queer kids my year group.
As my 20s unfold, I felt thgs were unstoppably changg for the better, wh gay marriage and public attus alterg rapidly.