I think rapes certainly wouldn't have been called rapes. I have never been raped. There was a system of sexual favours [at Stowe], but they never happened with violence. A lot of buggery went on, and things in that area - but I don't think there was ever anything that brutal. These things are so difficult, and it's not unusual for people to exaggerate after the fact. In my view [the John Peel case] would have to be very much a one-off thing. There was a lot of homosexuality at certain periods in English public schools, but I've never heard of rape. Gareth Thomas hails from Brigend, Wales and is regarded as one of the best Welsh rugby players of all time. After many successful years on the pitch as once the most capped Welsh rugby union player and Wales’ third highest try scorer, Gareth publicly came out as gay in 2009, making him the first openly gay professional rugby union player. Celebrated for this feat, he has since used his platform to discuss his identity and said how he hopes his coming out will inspire a younger generation of rugby players to do the same. A decade after coming out, Gareth also revealed he is HIV positive. To break the stigma around his diagnosis, the former rugby player made a documentary about his status and took part in an Ironman triathlon to highlight how HIV hadn’t and wouldn’t weaken him. Today, Gareth works closely with Terrence Higgins Trust and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex to publicly discuss his experiences with HIV and being gay in the sporting world. Paris Lees The only subject she steers clear of is the current conflict in Gaza although, as a secular Jew, she has been a vocal critic of Israel in general and Benjamin Netanyahu in particular in the past. ‘I’ve learnt that it’s best to be quiet about it,’ she says. ‘To show my pain and my sadness for all the horrible deaths and betrayals, but otherwise say nothing.’ In the book she rails against right-wing governments here and abroad. She describes Suella Braverman, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson as evil (partly, in Johnson’s case, because Brexit has prevented her and Sutherland living in their Italian house for more than 90 days of the year). ‘I don’t think the Tory party was always corrupt and incompetent. But it is now,’ she tells me. ‘And it’s very sad for people who are lifelong Tories. I don’t hate those people. I feel pity for them, actually. Where do they go? What do they do with their misplaced enthusiasms?’ Second member of Royal Family 'is named as racist' in Omid Scobie's book: Dutch translation of Endgame appears to identify two family members

I wasn't raped at Harrow, though oddly, long after I left, I noticed that various masters and ex-masters were being done for paedophilia. We had fagging at Harrow, but when I was a fag I was never propositioned. I'd love to pretend I knew about these things, but I didn't. I ran away at 16, but for entirely different reasons.

Daniels said it was also "frustrating" to see former Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard become Al-Ettifaq's manager in July. She and Sutherland, who avoids publicity, met in the late 60s and have been together ever since, bar one separation caused by an infidelity of which Margolyes is ashamed. In old age they may finally live together though not, as they’d hoped, in Italy. ‘Two lesbians together for 54 years is not to be sniffed at,’ she says. ‘I found the perfect person. She is better than I am in every way – as a human being, as a lesbian, as a writer, as a thinker.’

In that regard, the Home Office have their cake and eat it,’ he explains. ‘If you don’t “look” gay, interviewers may say: “Well, you don’t present as a gay man so what’s the risk? We don’t accept you are gay as claimed.” Australian Cavallo, 24, told BBC Sport in March he still receives death threats after coming out as gay. I was at Oundle in the mid-40s and it was tough. There were cold baths every morning and the food was awful. As far as I can see, the point was to produce people to run the British empire: if you could survive five years at public school, there was nothing the Kalahari desert or Antarctica could throw at you. Sex was part of the culture of the school, but it was all pretty ingenuous. It wasn't a culture of gang rape; it was boys getting crushes on other boys. It was like a ghastly parody of courtship, more to do with adolescent yearning than lust. Imagine it: 650 adolescents with nothing on their mind but sex who had to try to sublimate it all into playing rugger. Despite a slow pace, the ongoing discourse advocating for queer people behind the scenes (not just in front of the camera) in the worlds of TV and film has led to learnings in the world of theatre, too. There’s a growing understanding that having queer talent at all levels of a show’s production and realisation is imperative to its authenticity .The Great British Bake Off final review: Nude baking, Noel? It's a surprise it's not been on Channel 4 already, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS Brendan Fraser is in high spirits as stops to chat with a colleague after enjoying lunch at a popular Italian spot in New York City Meanwhile, Joel believes having people from the LGBTQ+ community interviewing gay asylum seekers would make the process much less damaging for claimants. He's helped me through so much," said Daniels. "When I came out he messaged me and I asked him questions about how people reacted to him coming out. To my knowledge, she is completely unaware. Today, I am living my amends to her by being faithful and placing my sex life on to a spiritual plane.

Miriam Margolyes wants me to know she’s just sold out the London Palladium. And the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. And got ‘standing ovations at every single theatre’ on her nationwide book tour to promote Oh Miriam!, a second volume of scandalous, scatological autobiography detailing her life as an actress – a self-described short, fat, flatulent Jewish lesbian, a woman who will say anything to anyone, usually in words of four letters. He wrote a long piece for the Liverpool matchday programme in November 2021, expressing support for Stonewall's Rainbow Laces campaign.

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