the video went viral.Within hours, Owain’s Twitter feed was blowing up with messages from people in America, Australia and the Middle East.An overwhelming majority of responses to Owain’s video were positive but, as is the case with many things these days, there were also the occasional homophobic remark.
Owain, 36, admits that some of those comments took him back to his childhood growing up in the ex-mining town of Ammanford in Wales. “I had a wonderful childhood and I wouldn’t wish it to be any different,” Owain told the Manchester Evening News.“Despite that, there was always a feeling of not belonging.
We were a very working class family in an ex-industrial area."There was definitely a feeling that I was literally the only gay in the.