12 Common Gay Prenters to your Uk Televisn |

Contents:

• 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

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.

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.

PHILLIP SCHOFIELD, VETERAN TV HOST, OUT AS GAY DURG MORNG SHOW

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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?

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