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• TORCHWOOD’S IANTO JON RPONDS TO RSELL T DAVI’ MENTS ON ONLY GAY ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY MUNICH MUNICH CY GUI
• THE BEST MUNICH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MUNICH

TORCHWOOD’S IANTO JON RPONDS TO RSELL T DAVI’ MENTS ON ONLY GAY ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

When scribg his approach to pictg sexualy Torchwood, Davi told the Gay Tim  October 2006: "Whout makg polil or dull, this is gog to be a very bisexual program. I want to knock down the barriers so we n't fe which of the characters is gay. We need to start mixg thgs up, rather than thkg, 'This is a gay character and he'll only ever go off wh men.

Gareth David-Lloyd played Ianto Jon Rsell T Davi’ Doctor Who sp-off Torchwood (Picture: Getty)Torchwood star Gareth David-Lloyd has rpond to It’s A S creator Rsell T Davi’ explanatn that he chose to st gay actors the new seri to ensure they would liver an ‘thentic’ portrayal of the characters. Earlier this week, Rsell nducted an terview wh Rad Tim where he strsed his view on the importance of stg gay actors gay rol. The screenwrer said: ‘I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance.

Gareth, who has been married to his partner Gemma Jam for 11 years, rpond to Rsell’s ments on Twter, referencg the fact that he also played a gay character Rsell’s 2004 TV seri Me All Me. ‘Ianto’s sexualy was plex but tertg that I got the role partly based on the strength of a gay character I played for @sselldavi63 ‘Me All Me’.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Ianto’s sexualy was plex but tertg that I got the role partly based on the strength of a gay character I played for @sselldavi63 ‘Me All Me’.

Gareth played Ianto oppose John Barrowman as Capta Jack Torchwood (Picture: BBC)On Wednday’s Good Morng Bra, Piers Man stated his belief that ’s a ‘prepostero’ notn that only gay actors should play gay characters. Wrer and LGBTQ+ activist Benjam Butterworth rebed this statement, sayg: ‘I don’t accept that bee what I’m sayg is there’s a reason why gay actors are unrreprented and that’s why they should get the rol and be better at them.

MORE: It’s A S star Olly Alexanr says Rsell T Davi seri Queer as Folk ‘shaped him’ as a gay man.

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Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

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Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. There is the odd eff and bld, a lot of d gay/bisexual ntent and some ocsnal (tastefully shot) rnch, but the seri don't really need .

) to go and Ianto: Prumably the shock of losg his girliend the Cyberwoman episo mak Ianto ci to go gay or omnisexual or whatever. Look, the chanc of 2 men wh homosexual tennci workg together any field outsi the fashn dtry are pretty damn Weevil Bag Episo: Y, we've all seen "Fight Club", thanks.

Capta Jack Harkns (the origal one) beg gay: Jack (Torchwood Jack, I mean) changed history after havg a dance wh the doomed man whose inty he hijacked WWII.