To Be a Gay Man by Will Young – out and proud | Autobgraphy and memoir | The Guardian

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

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. 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.

WILL YOUNG ADMS HE WAS 'ASHAMED' TO BE OPENLY GAY DURG HIS EARLY MIC REER

“I very ocsnally still get now, blok gog: ‘I listen to your mic, but I’m not gay.

WILL YOUNG OPENS UP ABOUT GAY SHAMG AND ADMS HE 'SAYS WRONG THG ALL THE TIME'

On a Saturday night Febary 2002, 14 ln people watched a 23-year-old gay man w a TV pop ntt.

WILL YOUNG CALLS FOR END TO 'GAY' AS SCHOOL SLUR

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”. 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.

This allowed me to see that a gay man uld be accepted as a person; not some kd of monster.

COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

”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. 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.

MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS

Back then, was still unual for a mastream star to be openly gay, particularly so early their reer.

“I screamed out to the whole street: ‘The guys are beg homophobic to me and llg me a fag. Instead, he is dog other thgs – a return of his part as the MC Ruf Norris’s productn of Cabaret; wrg a TV seri, and is also about to lnch Homo Sapiens, a podst nceived by, and rerd wh, his iend Chris Sweeney, who sold to Young as a kd of Woman’s Hour but for LGBT+ people. To anyone who is a mory, and has grown up wh a shamg culture for whatever reason, there tends to be an open-mdns and acceptance of others, and that’s one of the thgs I love about beg a gay man.

He has said was probably ed by any number of thgs - beg separated om his tw brother at birth (they were born six weeks prematurely), beg bullied at school, or feelg shame for beg gay. In March 2002, Will Young revealed that he is gay, pre-emptg a tabloid newspaper that was preparg to out him.