Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life (Channel 4 HD)

Contents:

• VIEWERS PRAISE EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE
• EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE
• CHICHTER MAN WHO ME OUT AT SEVEN, NOMATED FOR BAFTA FOR ROLE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'MY GAY LIFE'
• BILLY EICHNER ON HIS HISTORY-MAKG GAY ROM-COM ‘BROS’: ‘IT’S THE BT THG I’VE EVER DONE’

VIEWERS PRAISE EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE

A new documentary has given sight to the life of a gay teenager - as he mak the transformatn om 'closeted schoolboy' to the 'only drag queen at prom'. Channel 4's Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life followed Billy, who liv Ssex, om the age of 11, as he began g out to iends and fay about his programme also looked at his stggl at home, as his father refed to accept his cisn to e out at such a young age - and said at one pot 'he did not believe he was gay'. Scroll down for vio Billy, pictured wh his parents Dee and Rob, is the subject of a new Channel 4 documentary entled Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life Towards the end of the programme, Billy scrib how he has transformed om 'closeted schoolboy' to the only drag queen at prom - wearg towerg 10-ch heels One wrote 'What a hero', while another add: 'Amaz me how aware he was at such a young age'.

EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE

His mother Dee add: 'We were stg the r, and I said if you were [gay] Billy, you n open up to me, I don’t have a problem wh .

' At the start of the show, he reveals how he me out to his fay at the age of seven and a half Billy, pictured wh his mother Dee, said his dad was not as supportive as his mumPuttg across his pot of view, his father Rob said: 'I don’t believe he is gay.

'At the moment, he’s got mixed feelgs, his hormon are gog mad, and I n’t see that he is [gay]. 'He turned to such a horrible person, which was fact the reason why my parents divorced, bee of how he treated me and how homophobic he was, ' Billy explaed.

CHICHTER MAN WHO ME OUT AT SEVEN, NOMATED FOR BAFTA FOR ROLE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'MY GAY LIFE'

When he was seven, Billy me out as gayWhen he was seven, Billy me out as Gay Pri Brighton, when he was 11, he was approached by a film crew and agreed to start documentg his the followg six years Billy filmed his 17, Billy (and this film) reveal what has been like growg up gay 21st-century Bra. In the wake of Fol’s post, which wasn’t the first time that he had shared his homophobia onle, he was fired om the natnal Atralian gby team.

BILLY EICHNER ON HIS HISTORY-MAKG GAY ROM-COM ‘BROS’: ‘IT’S THE BT THG I’VE EVER DONE’

Related: Seyi Omooba dropped om The Color Purple followg anti-gay post. NewsA Chichter man, who me out as gay when he was jt seven, has been nomated for a Childrens BAFTA for a Channel 4 documentary he was the subject Thorndale, 18, starred a documentary on Channel 4 December last year which saw the fashn stunt nomated for a Children's BAFTA. "The documentary, tled 'Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life' was shot over six years verg Billy's life through his add: "It was tricky at tim and n be mandg but I always knew was gog towards somethg worth so much at the end.

He was fairly nvced om the age of seven that he was gay — we jt told his story. Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life. We’re lighted to announce that Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life has been nomated for a Children’s BAFTA and the Japan Prize.