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. Durg the 1990s, Ru was known the UK for his appearanc on the Channel 4 seri ‘Manhattan Cable’.Other : Dpe beg one of the most regnised faced the LGBT muny, RuPl do not nsir himself a gay in, sayg: “That's for someone else to nsir me that.”He says: “Regular, straight pop culture has liberally lifted thgs om gay culture as long as I n remember.
PHILLIP SCHOFIELD, VETERAN TV HOST, OUT AS GAY DURG MORNG SHOW
The stand-up ic hosts his own Channel 4 chat show, ‘Chatty Man’.Other : Alan has claimed he don’t believe he is a role mol for the gay muny, as he don’t nsir his sexualy to be a fol part of his shows, sayg: “I thk what better equaly for gays than that?He says: "I wouldn't change myself for the world. 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?
12 COMMON GAY PRENTERS TO YOUR UK TELEVISN
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?
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.