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PHILLIP SCHOFIELD'S STATEMENT IS 'HUGE MOMENT' FOR GAY COMMUNITY Attitudes to gay people have undergone massive change since 1980s when presenter made his TV debut

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Schofield with, left to right, Sarah Greene, the puppet ‘Gordon the Gopher’ and fashion expert Annabel Giles. Photograph: PA In 1985, the year Phillip Schofield made his debut on British children’s TV, the Sun reported that a Liverpool publican had banned gay people from his establishment. “A lot of ordinary people are going to catch something from the glasses,” he told the paper, according to a contemporaneous report in the Gay Times . “We don’t want gays on the

premises.”

Two years later, when Schofield moved to present the flagship children’s Saturday morning programme Going Live!

, Margaret

Thatcher’s government introduced a bill with a clause that banned schools from teaching “the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”. By the time Section 28 was repealed

in 2003

,

Schofield was already in his current job as a presenter of ITV’s

This Morning .

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All of which may go some way to explain why, when Schofield took to

his own TV sofa

on Friday to talk about the statement he had just released

, in which

he came out as gay at the age of 57, his body language was defensive and anxious, his voice agonised. Through the course of his 35-year career, Schofield has lived a different, ostensibly heterosexual life – he has been married for the last 27 to his wife, Steph, with whom he has two adult daughters. Causing them pain had clearly been agonising

.

But his sexuality, he told co-presenter and friend Holly Willoughby

, had been

“bothering for a very long time … There’s no question that it has in recent times consumed my head, and has become an issue in my head.” There had been pain, confusion and “some very dark

moments”.

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The presenter is clearly blessed in the supportive reaction of his family and even his wife – “There is no one in my life who would have supported me the way … she’s astonishing.” The overwhelmingly positive reaction from his audience, too, is heartening evidence of the extent to which attitudes have changed since the

hate-filled 1980s.

“You are still Phillip Schofield,” wrote one This Morning viewer in a much-liked tweet

. “You

were loved yesterday and you are still loved today … Go ahead, be free, live your truth and be happy in life.” Schofield has never been a particularly headline-grabbing presenter – neither plagued by paparazzi at his every outing nor courting controversy for the sake of it. As a warm, dependable and thoroughly professional presence, however, his value to broadcasters is

unarguable.

“When you create a new entertainment show and start discussing who should host, the first name on the list is always Phillip Schofield,” the presenter and producer Richard Osman

said on

Friday. “That’s a fact. He’s just the very best at what he does and the public adore him.” When the vehicle wholesaling firm WeBuyAnyCar.com wanted a face for an ad campaign riffing on “the most loved man in the UK” , it was Schofield they

chose.

As such, while there is no question that British attitudes have revolutionised in three decades to those coming out, the presenter’s announcement is highly significant, says Jeff Ingold, Stonewall’s

head of media.

“I think it’s a hugely important moment, and the overwhelmingly positive reaction we are seeing online and in the media really speaks to how momentous this can be. “For LGBT people, any time someone comes out it’s such an affirming moment just to see yourself reflected back at you. To have a national treasure like Phillip come out, really opens people’s eyes to what it means to be LGBT and the different experiences people have

coming out.”

The veteran LGBT rights activist Peter Tatchell

agrees that

attitudes have shifted from the time when “the Thatcher government, tabloid press and the police had declared virtual war on the LGBT+ community”, but makes the point that most openly gay people are white and male. “We need more women and people from the African, Muslim and wider Asian communities, where young LGBTs often have a tougher time coming to terms with their sexuality and finding

acceptance.”

Schofield’s decision has a particular resonance for the singer and

actor Duncan James

,

who built an enormous teenage fanbase with the boyband Blue in the early noughties, and had a daughter with a female partner, before coming out as

bisexual in 2009

(he now identifies as gay). “He has a family, kids, he’s in the public eye. I know for a fact that all those extra layers make it really, really hard. So he’s probably been feeling absolutely petrified. I know I was.” James eventually chose to speak out, he says, “for my own sanity”. “I was living a lie and living in fear that somebody would expose me. I was very, very frightened.” Coming out, he says, was “the best thing that ever happened to me. It made me such a happier person. All the insecurities and the huge sandbags I had been carrying for so many years, they all evaporated, and it was like I became … light.” Schofield’s statement, James says, is a “huge moment” for the gay community. “And it gives so many people – maybe the older generation as well – to go, I’m going to live my last few decades happy. I want to be free.” AMERICA FACES AN EPIC CHOICE... ... in the coming year, and the results will define the country for a generation. These are perilous times. Over the last three years, much of what the Guardian holds dear has been threatened – democracy, civility, truth. This US administration is establishing new norms of behaviour. Anger and cruelty disfigure public discourse and lying is commonplace. Truth is being chased away. But with your help we can continue to put it center stage. Rampant disinformation, partisan news sources and social media's tsunami of fake news is no basis on which to inform the American public in 2020. The need for a robust, independent press has never been greater, and with your support we can continue to provide fact-based reporting that offers public scrutiny and oversight. Our journalism is free and open for all, but it's made possible thanks to the support we receive from readers like you across America in all 50

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