{"id":5011,"date":"2019-05-20T05:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2019-05-20T05:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T12:02:10","slug":"tovey-wants-more-gay-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/tovey-wants-more-gay-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Tovey Wants More Gay Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things I saw last year was&nbsp;<strong><em>A Very English Scandal<\/em><\/strong>, a three-part miniseries from the&nbsp;<em>BBC&nbsp;<\/em>(you can watch it on&nbsp;<em>Amazon<\/em>).&nbsp; I highly urge you to check it out, not only for the outstanding performances by everyone (especially&nbsp;<strong>Hugh Grant&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Ben Whishaw<\/strong>, who won a&nbsp;<em>Golden Globe<\/em>), but also for the crackerjack true story which was riveting.&nbsp; Much of the credit goes to director&nbsp;<strong>Stephen Frears&nbsp;<\/strong>and writer&nbsp;<strong>Russell T Davies<\/strong>, who also brought us&nbsp;<strong><em>Queer as Folk<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;as well as pivotal work on&nbsp;<strong><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><em>Torchwood<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads us to our&nbsp;<strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;question from&nbsp;<strong>Thom&nbsp;<\/strong>in Baltimore:&nbsp;<em>\u201cWhat is this new show that&nbsp;<strong>Russell Tovey&nbsp;<\/strong>is in?&nbsp; He said it had graphic gay sex, so I don\u2019t want to miss it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tovey is in a new&nbsp;<em>BBC&nbsp;<\/em>series called&nbsp;<strong><em>Years and Years<\/em><\/strong>, written by Russell T Davies (<em>HBO&nbsp;<\/em>will run it at a later date).&nbsp; The first episode takes place in the near future, after&nbsp;<em>Brexit&nbsp;<\/em>and during&nbsp;<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s second term (God forbid).&nbsp; What Tovey said was, \u201cEverything has to be shown because, otherwise, if you don\u2019t show diversity, if you don\u2019t show gay sex, if you don\u2019t show men in love, or women in love, or whatever, then how the hell do you normalize it?\u201d&nbsp; I note he didn\u2019t mention that the show also features a sex robot!&nbsp; As to the gay sex scene in question, it comes towards the end of the first episode and, well, check it out on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things I saw last year was&nbsp;A Very English Scandal, a three-part miniseries from the&nbsp;BBC&nbsp;(you can watch it on&nbsp;Amazon).&nbsp; I highly urge you to check it out, not only for the outstanding performances by everyone (especially&nbsp;Hugh Grant&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ben Whishaw, who won a&nbsp;Golden Globe), but also for the crackerjack true story which was riveting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}