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Contents:
- TO BE A GAY MAN BY WILL YOUNG – OUT AND PROUD
- WILL YOUNG ADMS HE WAS 'ASHAMED' TO BE OPENLY GAY DURG HIS EARLY MIC REER
- WILL YOUNG OPENS UP ABOUT GAY SHAMG AND ADMS HE 'SAYS WRONG THG ALL THE TIME'
- WILL YOUNG CALLS FOR END TO 'GAY' AS SCHOOL SLUR
- COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS
TO BE A GAY MAN BY WILL YOUNG – OUT AND PROUD
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But, to put that ntext, I was nervo about wearg red traers se people thought I was gay. ”The real toxicy me om the media – such as the Mail on Sunday, which 2002 attempted to break the “news” about Young beg gay before he uld e out himself. “There was one sayg I was part of a gay bullyg rg – basilly abg boys at Wellgton – and I let go.
WILL YOUNG ADMS HE WAS 'ASHAMED' TO BE OPENLY GAY DURG HIS EARLY MIC REER
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And there was a story once about my brother chasg after me wh a baseball bat when he found out I was gay, and I’m really mortified that I n’t go that far back and sue. “I very ocsnally still get now, blok gog: ‘I listen to your mic, but I’m not gay. On a Saturday night Febary 2002, 14 ln people watched a 23-year-old gay man w a TV pop ntt.
WILL YOUNG OPENS UP ABOUT GAY SHAMG AND ADMS HE 'SAYS WRONG THG ALL THE TIME'
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It had already n a piece suggtg he’d soon be “whoopg up… at one of Elton John and his lover David Furnish’s timate ltle all-star soire”, addg a “lourful mour” about Young’s school iends beg volved the “homosexual timidatn of younger boys”.
WILL YOUNG CALLS FOR END TO 'GAY' AS SCHOOL SLUR
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It was a landmark revelatn at the time, g only six months after the openly gay Brian Dowlg had won Big Brother; pop culture was val changg attus to homosexualy the early 2000s.
COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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This allowed me to see that a gay man uld be accepted as a person; not some kd of monster.
”To Be a Gay Man is a book about gay shame, Young explas, his chatty troductn, and his journey to try and rid himself of .
”Young wr wh the likable fizz he’s kept revealg throughout his succsful pop reer (his latt album, 2019’s Lexin, got to No 2 the charts), and on the podst he -hosted, Homo Sapiens. He rells fdg gay porn onle at home the 1990s (“I’d have to put a towel over the router bee would make a noise like a fax mache… I nnot expla to you how excciatg those 30 sends were”). It’s shockg how Chris Moyl got away wh a homophobic imprsn of Young on primetime Rad 1 2009.
MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS
He says he was feelg “a b laissez-faire about ” but then watched some of the BBC’s season celebratg LGBT liv to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy, “and I actually thk there’s somethg about this weekend that’s really special, more than I realised.