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I sobbed at this lovely gay adoption drama. We should thank David Cameron
07 Jun 2024 22:25 GMT
Lost Boys and Fairies
BBC1
Queenie
Channel 4
D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
BBC2
Of all the big liberal causes of my lifetime, the easiest to navigate is the gay one. When the Conservatives legalised same-sex marriage a decade ago, there was no handwringing from …
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Welsh writer’s gay adoption story turned into major BBC drama
02 Jun 2024 13:02 GMT
… on his own experiences of gay adoption. Daf James, who lives in … to tell this story about gay adoption,” he said. “I'm …
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Lost Boys and Fairies: gay adoption paves way for bracingly honest drama
04 Jun 2024 00:17 GMT
Lost Boys and Fairies
BBC1
Football Cops
Channel 4
There was a striking scene midway through Lost Boys and Fairies that belied its schmaltzy title. A gay couple seeking to adopt a child attended a sort of kid “speed dating event” and met a little girl who …
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Lost Boys and Fairies review: Gay adoption tale is a gut punch – you’ll be reaching for the tissues
03 Jun 2024 21:52 GMT
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“Any a***hole can just shoot their load and make a baby,” comes the judgement of a prospective father in Lost …
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A beautiful gay adoption extravaganza
03 Jun 2024 21:17 GMT
Lost Boys & Fairies is so determined to make you cry that if it were on a more commercial channel, each part would be bookended by a sponsored ad for big-brand tissues. It tells a sad, beautiful story about adoption and, crucially, about adopters, with …
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Lost Boys & Fairies writer on gay adoption drama: ‘Love comes in many shapes’
01 Jun 2024 00:13 GMT
"But I remember one of my dad's friends coming up to me and just saying, 'Well, you know, love is love, innit.' [Laughs] And I was like, 'Well yeah, it is!'
"And we're getting there, but God, we're late on in the day …
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Gay adoption drama series comes to Aussie streaming
31 May 2024 07:06 GMT
A new gay “coming-of-middle-age” drama series from the BBC, Lost Boys and Fairies, is coming to Australian streaming next week. Gabriel is a singer and drag artist-extraordinaire at his local queer nightclub in Cardiff. He’s in a long-term relationship …
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Anti-Gay Adoption Laws Barred This Elite SA Boxer From Olympics
06 May 2024 02:08 GMT
Fred Zziwa is a lightweight boxing prodigy from South Australia – and he’d be wearing the green and gold at the Paris Olympics, if it wasn’t for an antiquated anti-gay law.
Zziwa has become one of the most formidable and respected young boxers in the …
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Greece embraces marriage equality and gay adoption
18 Feb 2024 06:51 GMT
LGBTIQA+ rights in Greece took a big leap forward this week with the country’s parliament passing new laws that allow for same-sex marriage and granting same-sex adoption rights too.
The move saw Greece become the first Orthodox Christian country to …
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Hawkeye’s Fra Fee leads new BBC gay adoption drama Lost Boys & Fairies
02 Oct 2023 14:19 GMT
… “glittering” in its portrayal of gay adoption.
Sion Daniel Young (L) and …