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• 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'. 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.

EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE

'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.

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. Related: Seyi Omooba dropped om The Color Purple followg anti-gay post.

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

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.

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

Extraordary Teens: My Gay LifeShot over several years, this groundbreakg documentary follows the story of a young boy lled Billy growg up gay 21st century Bra, filmed om ag 11 to 17. Extraordary Teens: My Gay LifeShot over several years, this groundbreakg documentary follows the story of a young boy lled Billy growg up gay 21st century Bra, filmed om ag 11 to, Dec 5, 10:00 pmChannel 465 ms.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". I’ll never fet watchg a televisn terview wh a very well-known pastor who was asked about homosexualy.

He said, “I don’t speak about homosexualy bee J don’t talk about or fe . Acrdg to a Barna study, only 24 percent of churched Generatn Z Christians, ag 13-18, believe that homosexualy is wrong.

I’ve had many iends who through the years have e out as beg gay. I see the s of homosexualy the same as I see my own s. I’ve never treated my gay iends differently, bee my s nailed J to the cross jt as much as theirs.