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‘SEX EDUTN’ STAR NCUTI GATWA ON WHY HIS CHARACTER IS SO IMPORTANT FOR BLACK GAY VISIBILY

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“Sex Edutn” is set at the fictnal Moordale High, a magil school where gay kids le the roost and terracial datg is stat quo.

'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST

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Eric’s storyle never feels like mere accsory; he’s so much more than the hackneyed “gay bt iend” character.

“It’s really nice to have a gay character, a black character, be at the foreont of this story on a show like this that has the reach do on Netflix, ” Gatwa said. The character Eric Effng (portrayed by actor Ncuti Gatwa) is an openly gay Brish teen the Netflix seri Sex Edutn.

Eric is a gay teenager this seri about a high school the Uned Kgdom where sex is very much on everyone's md.

SEX EDUTN ACTOR ASA BUTTERFIELD TERVIEW: 'IT'S IMPORTANT TO SEE A STRAIGHT WHE GUY AND A GAY BLACK GUY BEG BT IENDS'

His parents know he is gay and have e to accept his sexualy. Bisi Alimi, an actor-turned-activist, ma headl when he me out as gay on Nigerian televisn. Did the show offer a realistic pictn of s gay--Nigeria storyle?

I thk that scenar of the mother who is acceptg of her child and unrstandg the homophobia Nigeria, the expectatn of homophobia, is very, very accurate. She is aaid that this lovg son who is gay is gog to a untry that is homophobic. In the new season, Eric's mom warns her son to be discreet when they vis Nigeria, but he ends up gog to an unrground LGBTQ party wh a new gay iend.

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Is dangero to be openly gay Nigeria?

On the TV show, Eric go to the weddg, then sneaks away wh a Nigerian photographer he meets who is gay. A typil Nigerian driver will have somethg to say, good or bad, will possibly preach at them, exprs his opn why beg gay is bad and God is agast — or exprs some form of support. What did you thk of the rt of the scenar the show's Nigeria episo — Eric's new gay iend tak him to an unrground LGBTQ party.

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