Contents:
- EXCLIVE! RONAN PARKE: ‘I’VE ALWAYS INTIFIED AS GAY – AND I’VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO SAY ’
- SGER RONAN PARKE SAYS HE’S ALWAYS INTIFIED AS BEG GAY
EXCLIVE! RONAN PARKE: ‘I’VE ALWAYS INTIFIED AS GAY – AND I’VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO SAY ’
Such a rapid rise the then still-emergg age of social media me at a st, however: abive onle ments, often homophobic tone, me their hundreds, as a pre-teen Ronan was nonted wh an ugly prejudice his supportive parents had prevly helped shield him om. So was ‘gay’ a label you already intified wh when you were young? ’ All dramatic [lghs] And they jt went ‘Yeah, yeah, we know, you’re gay’, and they jt got the remote and unmuted the TV!
SGER RONAN PARKE SAYS HE’S ALWAYS INTIFIED AS BEG GAY
But I’ve always intified as a gay man and I’ve always been very proud to say . I thk for a lot of people, if they’re lled gay om a young age n sometim make harr to discs their sexualy, bee they almost don’t want to prove those bulli ‘right’.
I didn’t know any other gay people where I was om. So much has changed for LGBT artists sce 2011 when you were on BGT – has the succs of other gay artists like Sam Smh or Olly Alexanr helped spire you to be open?
I gus I was spired by that, beg a young gay guy who se another gay man or gay women step up and be so open about .