Will Young opens up about gay shamg and adms he 'says wrong thg all the time' - Mirror Onle

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.

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

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

“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. 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. ”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.

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

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.

COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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.

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

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.