Douglas Stuart
speaker
201 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 May
Douglas Stuart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's becoming incredibly liberal very quickly.
And so he sees much more hope in the world as a young gay man and much more acceptance.
But the problem is, is in that wonderful moment where we all leave home for the first time and we think we're going to get to step out into the world and become our own people far from our families.
He has called home to take care of his sick grandmother and he finds himself exactly back where he started.
Yeah.
I mean, in fact, I didn't have any understanding that I was gay for most of my young life.
I was sort of pointed out as being different to the other boys around me because masculinity was expressed in a very narrow way.
You know, we were all sons of hardworking fathers who did very difficult, dangerous jobs.
And so men were meant to be a very...
specific sort of way, you know, very brave, very strong, hardworking, but also quite emotionally distant because I think if you were going to start talking about your feelings, one of the very first feelings you would have is this job is dangerous and underpaid and I don't want to do it anymore.
And so as a way of sort of coping with whether it was coal mining or shipbuilding, men became quite cut off even to themselves.
And, you know, at five or six, I was quite an expressive young boy.
I had too much to say for myself.
I probably always have had.
And the other boys just sort of turned at me en masse and said, what is wrong with you?
Why are you like that?
And so I was just deemed as being too effeminate very, very young.
And that was before I had any sexual notions at all.
But that sort of followed me all the way through my youth.
And made me feel very lonely in the only place I think I ever felt like I belonged, which has been a sort of through line in all of my work.
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