Stephen Fry opens up about growing up gay: ‘My sexuality was a secret horror’

Stephen Fry (Image: Dawn Bowery/Channel 4)

Stephen Fry is without doubt a national treasure. But while we know him as an erudite actor, writer and podcaster, the 67-year-old has recently written about his experience grappling with his sexuality as a teenager, and it’s something that many queer people will recognise.

Writing in The Times, Fry explained that growing up gay “gave me years of misery but an education in literature”.

“By the time I was 13 my sexuality was a secret horror swelling inside me and I was desperately trying to find out who I was, what future there was for me,” he explained.

Fry went on to say that he understood the humiliation and disgrace gay people experienced because of his affinity for Oscar Wilde.

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