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Contents:

• DAN WOOTTON: HARRY STYL IS A REAL TALENT, BUT ATTEMPTS TO MAKE WORLD THK HE'S GAY IS TIROME
• HARRY STYL WANTS MORE ‘TENR’ SEX GAY FILMS, PROVG HE’S NEVER SEEN ANY — OPN
• WHAM!’S ANDREW RIDGELEY: ‘GEE MICHAEL THOUGHT MIGHT HURT IF HE ME OUT AS GAY AND I ENURAGED HIM NOT TO SAY ANYTHG’
• ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS

DAN WOOTTON: HARRY STYL IS A REAL TALENT, BUT ATTEMPTS TO MAKE WORLD THK HE'S GAY IS TIROME

Sce he ma his name, Styl has publicly advoted for gay rights and many seem to thk that he is also gay.

“It’s obvly pretty unfathomable now to thk, ‘Oh, you uldn’t be gay.

“It’s not like ‘This is a gay story about the guys beg gay.

HARRY STYL WANTS MORE ‘TENR’ SEX GAY FILMS, PROVG HE’S NEVER SEEN ANY — OPN

"It's pretty unfathomable now to thk, 'Oh, you uldn't be gay. "Edor’s Picks"It's not like, 'This is a gay story about the guys beg gay, '" he add. The lothar, mega s*****r and very heterosexual Harry Styl really, really wants to make you thk he’s gay.

I’ve always been a fan of Mr Styl – he’s a real talent whose reer I have supported sce first meetg him as an enthiastic teen wh stars his ey the nteen backstage at the X Factor However, I’m beg creasgly unfortable wh his nstant and scere attempts to sert himself the so-lled LGBT+ muny In an embarrassgly fawng new terview wh Rollg Stone, Harry has aga tried to create a mystery around his sexual orientatnHe said: ‘It’s obvly pretty unfathomable now to thk, ‘Oh, you uldn’t be gay. ’I’m of the belief that, like your sk lour or sex, you don’t choose your sexualy, ’s an nate part of who you today, many gay or lbian people have a problem g out bee of societal norms and a feelg they have spent years growg up lyg to their loved on about who they Harry to act as if ’s a fun ltle part of his life that he might tap to one day when he pleas eply unrm those who have stggled to accept their bizarre thg is that Harry spends more time pretendg to be gay than I do talkg about actually beg gay – and ’s beg tirome and borrle iend Benjam Butterworth, a leftie wh whom I agree on virtually nothg polilly, summed up perfectly yterday, when he tweeted: ‘Harry Styl needs to stop splayg as gay.

WHAM!’S ANDREW RIDGELEY: ‘GEE MICHAEL THOUGHT MIGHT HURT IF HE ME OUT AS GAY AND I ENURAGED HIM NOT TO SAY ANYTHG’

’ For Harry to act as if ’s a fun ltle part of his life that he might tap to one day when he pleas eply unrm those who have stggled to accept their sexualy The bizarre thg is that Harry spends more time pretendg to be gay than I do talkg about actually beg gaySo are we meant to believe that Harry has been happy to be seen datg a host of the world’s most betiful women, om Taylor Swift to Kendall Jenner, but nducts romanc wh men out of the glare of the spotlight? I’ve spoken to Harry’s close iends and nfidant over the years who have been open about how closely he studied the reers of his hero Mick Jagger and David Bowie, where an androgyno approach and gay mours helped fuel their mythology. His mic ntas eply sexual and romantic lyrics aimed at the oppose sex; his No1 sgle Watermelon Sugar was about a sex act men perform on womenIn fact, Wil even appears alongsi her man the terview to cry the ‘toxic negativy’ towards her om his fans onle which is ‘the anthis of Harry, and everythg he puts out there’ will thk ’s unfair to cricise Harry and argue he n fe sexually however he choos, but I thk that miss the a gay man I’m only too aware that you n’t pick and choose your sexualy, as much as you n’t choose your race or blogil sex, although the woketopians out there will disagree wh me on the latter pot.

’But that’s the problem wh the new breed of celebri who thk that sexualy is jt the latt field which to exprs their creativy and, drs up women’s clothg, wear nail polish, adorn yourself the rabow flag, I don’t give a to equate fashn, stylg and trends wh sexualy is eply might thk he’s helpg some way by showg ’s possible for straight stars to be fortable wh all persuasns, but I feel strongly he’s beltlg the real ‘journey’ of what means to be ’s advice to his unborn children the Rollg Stone terview is ‘to be themselv and be vulnerable and share’ that he would be sensible to take up himself to stop this gay chara. The sger’s fan base, which is primarily ma up of teenage girls and 40-somethg gay men clgg to their youth, may be fooled by such empty promis, but more astute cultured queers n see right through .

ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS

” His ments not only revealed a lack of awarens around ntemporary LGBTQ issu, but he also ma bold claims about gay sex film that are jt patently unte. Set 1950s Bra, “My Policeman” se Styl playg a closeted gay p navigatg two romanc, one wh a man and the other wh a woman. “My Policeman” will premiere next month at the Toronto Internatnal Film Ftival, so crics haven’t seen yet, but if Styl’ ments are any ditn, we should be bracg for yet another sexls gay perd drama.

It’s not like ‘This is a gay story about the guys beg gay. It’s not unfathomable to thk was illegal for beg gay when nsensual sex between same sex upl is still illegal 70 untri, nearly half of which are Commonwealth jurisdictns. God forbid we give anyone the ia that beg gay won’t rult abject misery and self-nial.

“So much of gay sex film is two guys gog at , and kd of remov the tenrns om , ” he said. “There will be, I would image, some people who watch who were very much alive durg this time when was illegal to be gay, and [Michael] wanted to show that ’s tenr and lovg and sensive. Where lbian sex is often fetishized for a heterosexual male gaze (ually to the pot of beg unregnizable), gay male sex is nsistently ntered out of existence mastream Hollywood films — even gay love stori.