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IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”

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What, a le up of gay characters played by a st of actual gay people? He plays Rchie, a young gay man om the Isle of Wight who’s not out to his parents. He also prented BBC Three documentary Growg Up Gay, which is available on BBC iPlayer and well worth a watch.

He is a young gay man, who’s fay effectively disown him after he out to them.

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RSELL T DAVI SPEAKS OUT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STG GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS IT'S A S

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As gay mat Rchie (Olly Alexanr), Rose (Omari Douglas), Ash (Nathaniel Curtis) and Col (Callum Stt Howells), pl female iend Jill (Lydia Wt), lose iends and lovers to the disease, Davi pats a poignant portra of how to fe their liv. NL: In episo four we see Nathaniel Curtis’s character Ash eviscerate Sectn 28, the Thatcher ernment’s barbaric legislatn prohibg the “promotn” of homosexualy schools.

YOU’LL WISH YOU WERE GAY: CHANNEL 4’S IT’S A S REVIEWED

RTD: I thk would have been odd to have wrten a gay drama set the 80s wh no mentn of .

If you were a teacher and a child was beg bullied for beg gay ont of you, there was nothg you uld say. I thk ls than half of our current bet voted for gay marriage – certaly our Home Secretary, Pri Patel, who’s charge of the laws of the land, voted agast gay marriage.

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They’re a gay male band wh their one female iend, which is very, very 80s. They existed then and they exist now; there’s a lot of Tory gays.

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