Tag: Olly Alexander
Olly Alexander reveals ‘the flag we shouldn’t be proud of’ this World Suicide Prevention...
The statistics show that LGBTQ people are more susceptible to mental health issues than heterosexual people due to a number of factors, including oppression, discrimination and inequality.
Today marks World Suicide Prevention Day and Gay Times has teamed up with Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander for a new campaign to encourage LGBTQ youth to discuss issues surrounding their mental health more openly.
In a call to action, Olly Alexander holds The Flag We Shouldn’t Be Proud Of – a reworked...
Olly Alexander’s reaction after music store puts his album in “gay section”
A music store has displayed Years&Years album in their so called "gay section." We never knew that this music section existed, but as a fan informed Olly Alexander, the band's out front-man, this music store invented it.
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Olly reacted on Twitter: “If you think my music is gay that’s cool, I love being gay and I love my gay music but can you really label a sound or style of music ‘gay’,” he wrote on Twitter.
Then he started mocking the way...
Olly Alexander avoids social media because of rape jokes and anti-gay bullying
The Years & Years singer is the target of homophobic messages on social media and he decided to avoid these platforms.
"I get trolled,” he said. “The usual stuff – sometimes it’s homophobic, like gay hate.
“But I don’t understand why people ‘@’ me on Twitter to say ‘Olly Alexander can’t sing’ or ‘Olly Alexander, you’re ugly as f**k’.
“If we’ve been on TV I don’t go on Twitter for a while after,” he added.
But the commentaries about his artistic abilities are...
