Olly Alexanr discs his new documentary 'Growg Up Gay'

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• OLLY ALEXANR: THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN DISCS POWERFUL NEW DOCUMENTARY ‘GROWG UP GAY’
• OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP GAY
• OLLY ALEXANR: ‘I’M NOT GOG TO SHUT UP ABOUT BEG GAY – OR BEG SEXY EHER’
• GROWG UP GAY, BBC2, REVIEW: ‘A G OUT THAT WAS RAW, EMOTNAL BUT ALWAYS VOLVG’
• OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP GAYSTREAM AND WATCH ONLE

OLLY ALEXANR: THE YEARS & YEARS ONTMAN DISCS POWERFUL NEW DOCUMENTARY ‘GROWG UP GAY’

In a powerful BBC3 documentary, Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay, the 26-year-old explor why the queer muny is more vulnerable to mental health issu – and ndidly addrs his own prsn.

OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP GAY

No one’s sayg beg gay giv you mental health issu – ’s growg up a world that mak you feel like you’re wrong, disgtg or perverted. Like half of all LGBT teens, you suffered homophobic bullg at school. You say you partied too much when you first went on the gay scene aged 18.

OLLY ALEXANR: ‘I’M NOT GOG TO SHUT UP ABOUT BEG GAY – OR BEG SEXY EHER’

The documentary forms part of a season markg 50 years sce the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy.

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GROWG UP GAY, BBC2, REVIEW: ‘A G OUT THAT WAS RAW, EMOTNAL BUT ALWAYS VOLVG’

Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay is available on iPlayer now. Oktar Yalk for The New York TimLike the character he plays “It’s a S, ” the actor and sger stggled wh beg gay.

OLLY ALEXANR: GROWG UP GAYSTREAM AND WATCH ONLE

20, 2021LONDON — When Olly Alexanr burst to tears shootg a scene of “It’s a S, ” no one was very the show, which me to HBO Max on Thursday and follows a group of iends embracg the gay culture of ’80s London unr the shadow of AIDS, was emotnal for many of the st and crew — and Alexanr is as fortable showg his vulnerabili as the character he plays, Rchie, is at flectg them. ” Peter Hoar, the director of “It’s a S, ” psed scene qutn, which after Rchie and his iends are arrted prottg the Brish ernment’s actn on AIDS, is one of many the show that explore how the epimic vastated gay men’s we meet Rchie, he is an impishly nfint but naïve 18-year-old who has jt moved to London, wh dreams of beg an actor.

) So when Alexanr heard Rsell T Davi, the show’s creator, was terted him for the lead role, the opportuny “ma poetic sense, ” Alexanr an terview, Davi said the show was “st gay as gay, which is my policy. When he was 14, his parents separated; he’d only seen his father a handful of tim sce, he was an even more ght environment, and Alexanr experienced homophobic bullyg om age 9. ”The speech ught the tert of TV producers, and, 2017, he onted a BBC documentary lled “Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay.

“I ed to be so, so driven, ” he said, but now he was puttg ls prsure on was happy, he add, to thk back on what he’d already achieved, and how much has changed sce he was a ltle boy who wished he wasn’t gay. ” He asks, potg to a bag of poprn that’s stg on the floor between is still sg, energised om speakg about his film, but I n sense the onset of that adrenale edown that after you’ve exposed a vulnerable si of documentary, Growg up Gay, is about mental health the LGBTQ+ muny. Growg up Gay div to all of this.

”A lot of people thk thgs have never been better for LGBTQ+ folk: both this month and next, thoands of people have/will be attendg Pri events which are takg place throughout the untry; we’ve earned the same marriage rights as straight upl; and later this month will mark the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offenc Act, which partially crimalised homosexualy England and ImagBut, acrdg to a recent report, a lot of might not be feelg too great. It’s an emotnal watch as Vicki adms she had been nial about Olly’s sexualy, fearful of what impact homophobia might have on his breaks down cryg ont of his mum, an exchange that will no doubt strike a chord wh other LGBTQ+ people.