Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life (2017) - The A.V. Club

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Shot over several years, the story of a young boy lled Billy growg up gay 21st century Bra, filmed om ag 11 to 17. Featurg vio diari, we see Billy growg up facg many chang and ton. Wh tensns the fay, his mum's health sre, a divorce and an tranged father, we see how those major chang shape Billy as he grows up on mera and tells the story his own voice. The rult is an extraordary longudal documentary about childhood, adolcence, sexualy and fay.

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‘WHAT A HERO’: VIEWERS HEAP PRAISE ON TALE OF GAY TEENAGER WHO WENT OM ‘CLOSETED SCHOOLBOY’ TO DRAG PROM QUEEN – SPE HIS FATHER’S ‘REFAL TO ACCEPT’ HIS G OUT

Channel 4's Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life followed the story of Billy, who liv Ssex, om the age of 11, as he began g out to iends and fay about his sexualy. * my gay life 2017 *

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Follows Billy, who was spotted by the producer at Gay Pri March Brighton drsed as Lady Gaga when he was 11, up to the age of 17. A new documentary has given sight to the life of a gay teenager - as he mak the transformatn om 'closeted schoolboy' to the 'only drag queen at prom'. Channel 4's Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life followed Billy, who liv Ssex, om the age of 11, as he began g out to iends and fay about his programme also looked at his stggl at home, as his father refed to accept his cisn to e out at such a young age - and said at one pot 'he did not believe he was gay'.

EXTRAORDARY TEENS: MY GAY LIFE

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Scroll down for vio Billy, pictured wh his parents Dee and Rob, is the subject of a new Channel 4 documentary entled Extraordary Teens: My Gay Life Towards the end of the programme, Billy scrib how he has transformed om 'closeted schoolboy' to the only drag queen at prom - wearg towerg 10-ch heels One wrote 'What a hero', while another add: 'Amaz me how aware he was at such a young age'. His mother Dee add: 'We were stg the r, and I said if you were [gay] Billy, you n open up to me, I don’t have a problem wh . ' At the start of the show, he reveals how he me out to his fay at the age of seven and a half Billy, pictured wh his mother Dee, said his dad was not as supportive as his mumPuttg across his pot of view, his father Rob said: 'I don’t believe he is gay.

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