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My secret life as a gay ultra-Orthodox Jew
Once you are pregnant that kid becomes both a hostage and your hostage taker. You are held hostage by your youngster. We are expected to have eight or nine children and I kept getting pregnant. My feelings built up inside me until one day I was walking down the street in a little cul-de-sac somewhere. There was so much noise in my top that I started saying "I'm same-sex attracted, I'm gay, I'm gay!" out loud.
It made me sense like I had to do something about it. Eventually, I told my husband. I ponder he already knew I was queer but he'd convinced himself that it was just a latent desire rather than an integral part of my identity.
We still don't know what we are going to do. We have children together and a family set-up that works. If my husband and I separate we would miss all of that. I think we would all drop something if we broke apart so I may adequately stay married.
I hope my family can stay together, although I don't know what shape that would obtain . People have all kinds of arrangements. Rabbis have diverse ideas than some about how you should keep people together. In a case like mine, instead of trying to
Veterans 'moved' by first glimpse of LGBT memorial
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Armed forces veterans say they feel "very moved" by their first glimpses of a UK memorial dedicated to lesbian, male lover, bisexual and transgender military personnel.
They have been gathering at Holkham Forge, in Norfolk, to witness work progressing on the bronze sculpture, ahead of its installation at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire this August.
The artwork emerged as a recommendation of an independent review into the historical treatment of people sacked or forced out of the military for being gay.
Retired naval commander Roly Woods was among those to visit and said: "I had a little moment to myself because I was not expecting to have such a strong reaction."
It was illegal to be openly gay in the British military until 2000.
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Mr Woods, who served in the Royal Navy for 46 years - both under the ban and after it was lifted - said the UK's first memorial for LGBT perso
Luke Evans on growing up gay as a Jehovah's Witness
Hollywood star Luke Evans has described the difficulties growing up as a Jehovah's Witness knowing he was homosexual.
Evans said he hid his sexuality, partly to safeguard his parents.
Jehovah's Witnesses reject homosexuality and Evans - the Welsh star whose films involve Beauty and the Beast, The Hobbit, and Fast & Furious 6 - understood he would be expelled from the community if he came out, with implications for his family too.
"I just knew that because of the religion it would pose a very difficult situation for us, because the religion would not accept it," he said.
Growing up as an only child in the south Wales valleys, he said he had a very close and content relationship with his parents, David and Yvonne.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales' Lucy Owen programme he said he had no choice but to try to fit in during his early teens, despite knowing he was gay.
"I guess I chose the religion. I'm not sure I believed in any of it, if I'm blatantly decent, but I didn't have much selection.
"I was too young to go away home legally. If I'd have left, the
Sion Daniel Young and Fra Fee are starring in the new gay series ‘Lost Boys & Fairies’, which is described to be “a ‘coming of middle-age’ story, both bold and deeply heart-wrenching, filled to the brim with humor, redemption, and love.”
Young is playing the role of Gabriel while Fee is portraying the nature of Andy. Aside from the two lead stars, the cast of ‘Lost Boys & Fairies’ also includes Elizabeth Berrington, Sharon D Clarke, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Arwel Gruffydd, Shaheen Jafargholi, Mali Ann Rees, William Thomas, Gwyneth Keyworth, and Gwawr Loader, among others.
A synopsis of the show via Attitude reads:
“Together with his partner, Andy [Fee], Gabe [Young] longs to adopt a youth and to do so they must convince their social worker Jackie that they’re up to the task. But Gabe is masking his demons: the effects of decades of shame having grown up in a society that overwhelmingly treated being homosexual as a sin; shame which Gabe is still processing.”
In the trailer, the couple can be seen going through a tough patch, as Andy tells Gabe:
“I will adopt Jake, with or without you.”
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