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Why am I getting emotional over this bl***y forum 😭😭.

BBl45 - I hope everything went well with with your mother. As Rich Tea said, it is a wonderful post.

As for Schofe, well what a lovely interview that was. I'm so happy for him and I really hope he's felt a huge weight lift off his shoulders. I came out at 21 (I'm 27 now) and that was hard. Doing it after being married for 27 years, and being [whether loved or hated] such an icon of British TV, I can't even think how that must have been for him.
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Jonwo
I thought Holly did very well interviewing Phil.
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manclad
True to an extent but I have known guys who have been straight (read Bisexual/curious) that have dabbled and only through time have they realised that it’s guys they want to be with. I.e they gradually stopped seeing women.
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Sh1ruba
james-2001 posted:
I've seen so much thinly veiled homophobia in various places today, it's pretty sickening.

That is disgusting...

Whoever is doing that should just stop...
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Sh1ruba
BBI45 posted:
Sh1ruba posted:
HJL posted:
Mods should warn (/ban?!) you for those comments. This topic isn't really what the forum is about... but those comments are so beyond the remits of this thread/ site.

I certainly think speculating that this has happened to 'save his job' is astounding. wow.



I think the interview was tasteful and incredibly brave. I am really proud and happy for him and his family and glad he felt ready to approach this in public. The affect of his honesty will be felt incredibly across a lot of the LGBT community. I think it will also help open dialogue across many demographics. I've actually felt very emotional about this today, and commend his bravery. I couldn't have done that when I came out at 21, a number of years ago!

I came out as bisexual recently and I am just so proud of him for his bravery and courage to speak up and be who he really wants to be.

I'm gonna give all my support for Schofe as he's now brave to love himself for who he is. He's one of the best British TV presenters and I can say this must have been a life-changing moment for his long career. This can inspire so many people who are too afraid to come out to just build up a little courage and be as brave as they can to express their own identity and be proud of it.

I wasn't originally gonna talk about this, but the above point about inspiring people means I might as well.


If it wasn't for the fact that Phillip came out today, I wouldn't have come out as bisexual today. I hadn't planned on coming out today. However, getting the notification from Sky News just before the show started prompted me to watch the interview, alongside my mother. This also made me think about when a good time to tell my parents would be. Then, as we were watching the interview, Phillip's bravery, honesty and courage struck a chord with me, and I decided that I'd have to do it at some point soon. Then the interview came to an end, and Eamonn and Ruth joined Phillip and Holly on the sofa, and me and my mother started talking about it. At that point, I decided it was now or never, and I opted for that moment.

As Sh1ruba has said, it takes a lot of bravery and courage to speak about these things, and Philip has likely given many people the boost they need. I can attest that he has given at least one person the courage they needed.

I'd also just like to say well done to both Sh1ruba for being so open about your sexuality and thanks for giving me the courage to write about everything here, and Ne1L C for being open about your autism (I know what it's like). As others have said, we still seem to be a while away from topics, like sexuality and mental health, being a non-issue for a majority of the population. However, despite some negative remarks on social media, the support shown for Schofield shows that we are, at least, taking steps in the right direction.

I am also autistic too so I can definitely relate Ne1L as well.
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Sh1ruba posted:
james-2001 posted:
I've seen so much thinly veiled homophobia in various places today, it's pretty sickening.

That is disgusting...

Whoever is doing that should just stop...


If the last few years have showed us anything, it's that we haven't advanced as much as a country that we thought we had.
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Josh
As the person in charge of this thread, I may well put my pence in:

I'm sure me and many others are quite surprised about this announcement, but that doesn't mean to say we are all very proud of Phil.
Just quickly, I won't go into specifics but I've known BBI45 for a while. He is a very kind, considerate and respectful person and although, like most of us, life's challenges may try to block his course in life, but he tries his hardest like most people. I'm very supportive of him and I am very, very proud of him.
I feel Phillip's announcement will always be remembered and hopefully marks even more equality and friendliness towards the community.
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Rich Tea posted:
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Rich Tea posted:

Had Schofield chosen to come out openly about his sexuality back in the late 80's in the years after he began doing children's TV from the cupboard in 1985 and then on Saturday mornings then I feel quite confident that he would have been kicked out of the broom cupboard. His children's TV career would have been ended literally overnight, and he'd certainly never have had that springboard to all the other TV later either.

Michael Sundin was briefly a Blue Peter presenter in the mid 80's about the time Schofield began his broom cupboard duties. When it came out he was gay he was history after just a few months doing Blue Peter. Reading his wikipedia entry and the feeble reasons they officially gave for his departure at the time made me rather cross. He was fired for being gay yet they hid behind other excuses. Schofield would have met the same fate as Sundin had he come out in his 20's back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sundin

It's not hard to grasp why he never did until today is it.


He said unless I misheard him say he started feeling different a few years ago maybe he was straight when he was in the broom cupboard with Gordon the Gopher.

But yeah brave of him to come out but yeah quite a shock that



Highly unlikely. If he's gay in his late 50's he was almost certainly so in his early 20's too. In reverse there are likely no genuinely gay 23 year olds who ended up genuinely straight at 57. This isn't a lifestyle choice made by weighing up the pros and cons. You are what you are.

Yeah fair points as long as the family are happy which they are that’s the main thing.
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BBI45
I would just like to thank the people who have been saying lovely things following my earlier post. For those who are wondering, both of my parents have been supportive, which I fully expected them to be, but as people will tell you, it still a very challenging discussion to have.

What I would also like to say is that, for the first time in months, I feel like I have friends who care about me. As Josh has already said, the past several months have been a challenge for me. I won't go into details, but I haven't got many people outside my immediate family that I have been able to share my life with, so to finally be able to celebrate something significant with people outside my family really means a lot, to the point at which I am crying tears of joy.

So I just want to say, in the words of Sir Terry Wogan, Thank you for being my friend.
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There have been some really beautiful stories shared today, both here and across the Internet. It’s so amazing to see how a shared love of television presentation can bring so many people of different races, genders, ages, sexualities and those who experience the world differently because of conditions like autism, together. Being bisexual myself, I have loved seeing how accepting this forum is, and can only wish that society as a whole could be as kind.

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