Dan O'Neill, Bra's first openly gay wildlife televisn prenter, was told to 'play down' his sexualy by dtry peers.
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- GAY BBC PRENTER ‘WAS TOLD TO PLAY DOWN HIS SEXUALY’ BY TV PROFSNALS
- PHILLIP SCHOFIELD, VETERAN TV HOST, OUT AS GAY DURG MORNG SHOW
- 12 COMMON GAY PRENTERS TO YOUR UK TELEVISN
GAY BBC PRENTER ‘WAS TOLD TO PLAY DOWN HIS SEXUALY’ BY TV PROFSNALS
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We've e a long way sce a time when the only gay people on TV were eher closeted or unable to openly exprs their sexualy. He says: "I get loads of msag om 16-year-old gay lads sayg they’ve e out to their parents bee of me.
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He says: “The only thg I n give to young gay people is that when I was growg up there were no role mols that were blokey, that were men. Everybody was flamboyant and mp, and I remember gog, 'That's not me, so even though I thk I am gay, I don't thk I f to this world.”Luisa Bradshaw WheIan Wt/PA ArchiveBt known for? She says: “People ask me if I want to be a gay role mol and I say no, I jt want to be me and if I do help people to e out then that’s fantastic.”Jsie SmollettEvan Agosti/Invisn/APBt known for?
PHILLIP SCHOFIELD, VETERAN TV HOST, OUT AS GAY DURG MORNG SHOW
The character has been praised for breakg down the taboos of homosexualy the hip hop dtry. Other : Jsie nfirmed he is gay durg an terview on ‘The Ellen DeGener Show’ 2015, tellg her: “There is whout a doubt, no closet that I’ve ever been , and I jt wanted to make that clear.”He says: “There is a rponsibily for me as a man, as a man of lor, as an artist to be myself and make thgs that reflect me and that are te.
Other : He was named the most fluential gay Irish person The Guardian’s World Pri Power List 2014.
12 COMMON GAY PRENTERS TO YOUR UK TELEVISN
He says: “The only thg that mak me sad is that the most stick you get is om gay people.
It’s always been the same, that there’s this sort of weird self-loathg the gay muny.
He says: “I jt fd very disturbg that Rsia, a so lled civilised untry, gay men and women are beg beaten to ath the street and ’s perfectly acceptable.