Rupert Everett and Mary Portas will star a new seri of documentari tled '50 Shas of Gay', released to mark the 50th anniversary of the crimalisatn of homosexualy Bra.
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- RUPERT EVERETT, KIERON RICHARDSON, MARY PORTAS TO STAR ’50 SHAS OF GAY’ DOCUMENTARY ON GAY LIFE BRA
- MARY PORTAS ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘THIS IS , THIS IS HOW WE LIVE, WE’RE A FAY LIKE ANY OTHER’
RUPERT EVERETT, KIERON RICHARDSON, MARY PORTAS TO STAR ’50 SHAS OF GAY’ DOCUMENTARY ON GAY LIFE BRA
In the 70s we didn't have gay marriage, we didn't have acceptance, " she says.
The 59-year-old retail nsultant - who was married to Graham Portas and recently spl om her wife Melanie Rickey after 17 years together - is unsure whether she is a "gay woman" bee her tranged spoe is the only female she's ever loved, but she still wants to be a "voice of support" for the LGBTQ muny. In an terview wh the Tim newspaper, she said: "If I'm hont, am I a gay woman? She said: "It all down to love but when I met Melanie people were like 'Weren't you always gay' It was as if I'd wrten off the love I'd prevly had my marriage.
’Rickey, too, had not e out as gay before meetg Portas. ‘Gay people are gettg married and they are havg children, so I don’t believe there’s a downsi to sharg the rmatn, ’ she told The Observer. Mary Portas believ she has a “social rponsibily” as a gay woman to speak hontly about her personal life , as she hop to “normalise” what uld be nsired an “unual suatn”.
MARY PORTAS ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘THIS IS , THIS IS HOW WE LIVE, WE’RE A FAY LIKE ANY OTHER’
Speakg about why she wants to discs the topic more openly, she explaed: “I’m a gay woman and I have some sort of social rponsibily to people who still feel they haven’t a voice. Rupert Everett and Mary Portas will star a new seri of documentari tled ’50 Shas of Gay’, released to mark the 50th anniversary of the crimalisatn of homosexualy Bra.
The documentary, broadst on Channel 4, will exame gay polics, social life, culture, and fay life sce 1967. Gay actor Rupert Everett, who has starred Shakpeare Love, Stardt, and The Chronicl of Narnia, will discs his personal views on gay life Bra. One sectn, lled ‘Bra’s Great Gay Buildgs’, will feature broadster Mary Portas – who is a same-sex marriage – guidg viewers around Brish buildgs that hoed extraordary moments gay history.
In another documentary, ‘Not Guilty’ will look at the many gay men who ntued to face persecutn, even after gay sex was crimalised 1967.