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Contents:

• RYLAN CLARK-NEAL: ‘I KNEW I HAD TO BE THE GAY STEREOTYPE – I PLAYED THE GAME’
• RYLAN CLARK: ‘ON THE X FACTOR, I TICKED THE GAY STEREOTYPE JOKE BOX’
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE CELEBRIDANYL JOHNSON BOYIEND: WHO IS HE?
• WHAT BEME OF X FACTOR STAR HONEY G - FLOP RERDS, GAY REVEAL AND UNEXPECTED REER CHANGE
• EX-GAY 'X-FACTOR' CONTTANT FAC BACKLASH FOR SAYG HE FOUND CHRIST, LEFT LGBT LIFTYLE
• X FACTOR: CELEBRY’S JONNY LABEY ADMS HIS SEXUALY IS ALWAYS QUTNED HAVG PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
• ‘IT’S AMAZG THAT I SURVIVED’: DANNII MOGUE ON X FACTOR MANIA, POP STARDOM AND GAY MATCHMAKG

RYLAN CLARK-NEAL: ‘I KNEW I HAD TO BE THE GAY STEREOTYPE – I PLAYED THE GAME’

He says his childhood was a happy, normal one, but he was bullied: “Of urse I was – I was a chubby, gger, gay kid: all I need was a set of glass for the full fuckg set. “Probably bee they thought I was gay, although I don’t remember any of .

”Seeg two women bloodied and beaten the news recently after an attack on a London b, alleged to have been motivated by homophobia, didn’t surprise him: “I saw all the stat sayg: ‘I n’t believe this is happeng 2019, ’ but every day on my Twter feed I’ll get: ‘You’re gay, you’re a cunt, people like you should be killed bee you’re gay.

RYLAN CLARK: ‘ON THE X FACTOR, I TICKED THE GAY STEREOTYPE JOKE BOX’

“I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the ont of the papers every day. Northstar, as we’ve prevly examed, is Marvel’s first openly gay character, and here is shown to still be wh his hband Kyle.

Rylan Clark: ‘On The X Factor, I ticked the gay stereotype joke box’ (Photo: Leigh Keily). At school, before he revented himself as Rylan, he was a “ltle gay gger boy” lled Ross, bullied relentlsly by his peers. A boy his class lled him a homophobic slur and ma a limp wrist gture, and “I felt this rage bubble up through my ves and to my fists”, he rells the book, “and whout even thkg I punched him right the face.

There is a box for every sgle person on there, and I ticked the ‘gay stereotype joke’ box. Speakg out: X Factor nttant Lloyd Daniels has admted he felt prsured to hi a same-sex relatnship while petg on the show 2009 (pictured)Discsg his time on the show durg an Instagram Live, Lloyd admted he felt forced to hi his first gay relatnship om the public.

FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE CELEBRIDANYL JOHNSON BOYIEND: WHO IS HE?

Danyl Johnson, the leadg ntenr Simon Cowell’s X-Factor ITV show, has admted that he is bisexual — see Is Danyl Johnson Gay.

WHAT BEME OF X FACTOR STAR HONEY G - FLOP RERDS, GAY REVEAL AND UNEXPECTED REER CHANGE

She ni that she’s the one who turned him gay:“Even now, ’s a joke between iends that I turned Danyl gay. He thks he is gay and is baffled when he claimed that he’s bisexual.

“As far as I know I was his only girliend and I had always believed he was gay.

I n only thk he was told to say that so he would get both the gay and the straight vote. ”So what do you thk Famewatchers, is Danyl Johnson really bisexual or is he gay? And that July she also me out as gay, revealg she was lookg for the right woman to settle down and have kids wh.

EX-GAY 'X-FACTOR' CONTTANT FAC BACKLASH FOR SAYG HE FOUND CHRIST, LEFT LGBT LIFTYLE

“I was jt a b worried about people maybe beg homophobic. 45 of X-Factor end wh the two characters entwed a gay kiss cliffhanger. " In this month's issue, Rictor and Shatterstar ntue on their qut, and even the first time you see them the issue Rictor has his arm around Shatterstar, and no one seems to qutn or thk anythg of (but I gus when there are time travelg mutants attackg humany, there are bigger fish to y) the kiss there has been outrage om very few people, but Rob Liefeld, the creator of Shatterstar, was quoted as sayg: "As the guy that created, signed and wrote his first dozen appearanc, Shatterstar is not gay.

" Peter David, the current wrer of X-Factor says that the edors at Marvel are pletely supportive of the Rictor and Shatterstar relatnship, and one hop that this all won't be reversed the future, and the gay kiss won't be wiped om Marvel memory. " and go so far as sayg he ripped up the ic and sold all his back the relatnship between Rictor and Shatterstar ntu on this path, and is not re-wrten as Shatterstar beg a Skll or somethg along those l, then what we would have would be the first gay mutants the X-Universe to have a stable and posive relatnship jt like any straight characters, and while this may be a stretch, the Rictor and Shatterstar relatnship uld be looked at as an allegory for the current fight for gay marriage. “In the UK, beg gay isn’t somethg that people react to as they do Jamai so I wouldn’t feel half as worthls as some Jamains go out of their way to make someone feel.

“I hope to be spirg people to not only see themselv me but to be motivated to self-love and self-re a way that allows them to live their liv to the fullt and most happit and pecially young black gay men and women the Caribbean, whether they are out or not, ” Harris said.

X FACTOR: CELEBRY’S JONNY LABEY ADMS HIS SEXUALY IS ALWAYS QUTNED HAVG PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS

“I know a lot of time the world tri to timidate and sr you to silence bee they have this weird ia about what a gay man is. Beg gay don’t mean I want to be a girl or is weak or want to be a man.

People hear the term gay and immediately start to thk sexually and that is weird that they do that. I hope anyone that is gay and is readg this n believe that they are not ls than and that they serve love and to be valued and rpected jt like anyone else, ” he ntued. | (SCREENSHOT:)An ex-gay nttant on the Malte versn of the mil realy seri "X Factor" has drawn backlash after he clared on the show that homosexual "love" is "s" and that he left the liftyle after he found Christ.

In a vio terview segment that played before his performance, Grech clared: "I ed to lead a homosexual liftyle, and then I found God. "While the ernment nmns all such homophobic ments, broadstg this msage, whout llg out the harm ed by nversn therapy is damagg, " the ernment statement reads. "The Inpennt also reports that transgenr polician Alex Mangn cricized the remarks and posed what impact they uld have on gay and lbian children who might be more aaid now to e out after watchg Grech's is said to be a member of the River of Love, a Malte evangelil movement that oppos River of Love movement has been the Malte media for rryg out gay nversn therapi, acrdg to The Inpennt.

‘IT’S AMAZG THAT I SURVIVED’: DANNII MOGUE ON X FACTOR MANIA, POP STARDOM AND GAY MATCHMAKG

Christian groups or church that provi unselg to persons who experience unwanted same-sex attractns are sometim acced of providg gay nversn ex-gay Christians have and will ntue to share their ttimoni about leavg behd a homosexual liftyle. In Augt, a former proment Ugandan LGBT activist renounced her homosexualy and said that she had been "saved.

The former Eastenr’s actor played Ben Mchell’s boyiend Pl Coker the soap however, he was tragilly killed off 2016 a homophobic attack. He exclaimed: ‘Most, if not all of my fans are gay, or are very volved that muny. ‘I’m not gay myself, but I thk ’s slightly more important to spread a msage of love and acceptance of that muny as a straight guy.