Steven Oliver's seri is changg on-screen romance wh his funny and heartwarmg portrayal of gay Aborigal love.
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- IS OLIVER OTTO GAY? REVEALG THE SECRETS OF HIS SEXUAL INTY
- STEVEN OLIVER: 'BLACK GAY PEOPLE SERVE A MORE HONT, GROUND STORY'STEVEN OLIVER'S SERI IS CHANGG ON-SCREEN ROMANCE WH HIS FUNNY AND HEARTWARMG PORTRAYAL OF GAY ABORIGAL LOVE.STEVEN OLIVER A CHANCE AFFAIR SOURCE: NITVIN THE OVERALL SPE OF FICTNAL NTENT, VERY FEW GAY ROMANC ARE CENTRAL STORYL ON-SCREEN. FOR ABORIGAL REPRENTATN, 'S EVEN LS— IF AT ALL.HOWEVER, WRER, ACTOR AND EDIAN STEVEN OLIVER IS CHANGG THAT WH A MORN LOOK ON LOVE AND LIFE HIS WEB SERI, SOON TO BE PREMIERED ON TELEVISN, A CHANCE AFFAIR. WH THE HELP OF SCREEN ATRALIA'S 'BLACKSPACE' IATIVE, OLIVER, A SCENDANT OF KUYALANJI, WAANYI, GANGALIDDA, WOPPABURRA, BUNDJALUNG, BIRIPI MOB, HAS NOT ONLY WRTEN, BUT ALSO STARS A 5-PART SERI THAT TAK A UNIQUE AND SRCELY PORTRAYED LOOK AT GAY ABORIGAL RELATNSHIPS."WHEN I FIRST APPLIED FOR THE IATIVE, [MY NCEPT] WAS G OM A VERY SILLY PLACE, LIKE THE TIDDAS CHARACTERS I HAD DONE FOR BLACK COMEDY," HE TOLD NITV."BUT THEN I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT? BLACK GAY PEOPLE, WE SERVE A MORE HONT, MORE GROUND STORY. SO, I WENT BACK TO MAKE A LOT MORE PERSONAL, A LOT MORE GROUND REALY," HE SAID. WHAT OLIVER HAS GONE ON TO CREATE IS A SENSIVE AND TOUCHG LOOK AT LOVE BETWEEN TWO GAY BLACK MEN, AS WELL AS THE LOVE BETWEEN IENDS AND ULTIMATELY SELF-LOVE. IT'S A STORY ALL IMBUED WH HIS TRAMARK HUMOUR AND WHIP-SMART ONE-LERS.SET A SMALL BAR WHERE AMATR ENTERTAERS PERFORM ORIGAL SONGS, OLIVER TAK ON THE ROLE OF CHANCE, A HOPELS ROMANTIC WHO STGGL WH UNREQUED FEELGS FOR HIS STRAIGHT BT IEND JEFF (PLAYED BY FELLOW IC, BJORN STEWART).ACTOR, GUY SIMON PLAYS LUCKY WHO ON THE SCENE AND TAK THE ROLE OF CHANCE'S LOVE TERT.BLACK GAY PEOPLE, WE SERVE A MORE HONT, MORE GROUND STORY.IN A SUPPORTG ROLE, LOGIE AWARD-WNG ACTRS SHARI SEBBENS GIV A HILAR PERFORMANCE AS AVIANTE, A DIVA WHO LOV THE LIMELIGHT AND A BEYONCé TUNE. OLIVER SAYS HE WAS MORE EXCED FOR THE DIENCE TO SEE SEBBENS E HER EDIC CHOPS THAN HE WAS FOR HIS OWN PART, OFTEN HAVG TO LOOK AWAY WHEN FILMG SO AS NOT TO LGH. "[SHE] DID AN AMAZG JOB," HE REUNTS."IT WAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SI OF HER THAT I DON'T THK PEOPLE HAD GOTTEN TO SEE YET. THE DIRECTOR WAS HOLDG THE SCRIPT UP ONT OF HER FACE, AND SHARI HAD TO SG WH HER EY CLOSED, BEE WE JT ULDN'T LOOK AT EACH OTHER WHEN SHE WAS DOG . IT WAS JT SUCH A BLAST," HE SAID. IN A DIFFERENT CREATIVE TURN, OLIVER HAS ED HIS WRG THE SERI TO PORTRAY A MUCH-NEED REPRENTATN OF ABORIGAL RELATNSHIPS THAT IS SPIRED BY HIS SIRE TO WRE FOR AND ABOUT HIS OWN MUNY. WHEN TALKG ABOUT HIS OWN PATH AND JOURNEY AS A GAY BLACK MAN, HE SAYS THAT WASN'T ALWAYS EASY.GROWG UP TOWNSVILLE, FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND, WASN'T UNTIL MOVG TO PERTH TO STUDY THAT HE STARTED TO EMBRACE HIS SEXUALY. HOWEVER, LIVG FAR OM HOME, HE FOUND HIMSELF G HIS NEW STOMPG GROUND AS AN PE. "I WAS OVER THERE BY MYSELF STUDYG, AND I WAS GOG TO GAY BARS AND STUFF LIKE THAT."[BUT] I WAS LIVG THE TWO LIV, WHERE I HAD TO GO BACK HOME AND I'D BE BACK THE CLOSET. WHEN I'D GO BACK OVER TO PERTH, I'D BE OUT AGA," HE SHARED.A CHANCE AFFAIR SOURCE: SUPPLIEDOLIVER SAYS THAT WAS A QUOTE OM OPENLY-GAY SGER MELISSA ETHERIDGE THAT SPIRED HIM TO TAKE THE STEP TOWARDS TELLG HIS FAY."MY MOTHER AND SISTER WERE G TO PERTH. I PICTURED ME WALKG DOWN THE STREET WH THEM AND THEN NNG TO MY GAY IENDS AND THEM FDG OUT THAT WAY."I'D HEARD MELISSA ETHERIDGE AN TERVIEW SAY, 'IF PEOPLE AREN'T THERE FOR YOU AFTERWARDS, THEY WERE NEVER THERE FOR YOU THE FIRST PLACE.'AND I REALISED THAT MY FAY WOULDN'T ABANDON ME. THAT WAS WHEN I ME OUT. MY FAY HAVE BEEN NOTHG BUT SUPPORTIVE EVER SCE," HE SAID.ASI OM HIS LIVG AND LEARNG OM HIS OWN EXPERIENC HIS YOUNGER YEARS, OLIVER SAYS THAT HE IS ALSO NOW ENURAGED BY FANS WHO SAY THEY N RELATE TO HIS CHARACTERS."I WAS RECENTLY AT THE GARMA FTIVAL AND I HAD A WOMAN E UP TO ME," HE EXPLAED."THE VERY FIRST THG SHE SAID TO ME WAS, 'I'M SURE YOU GET THIS ALL THE TIME...'; I THOUGHT SHE WAS GOG TO ASK ME FOR A SELFIE OR LL ME THE S-WORD THAT I GET SO OFTEN LLED OM BLACK COMEDY."THEN, SHE SAID, 'I JT WANTED TO THANK YOU, MY 14-YEAR-OLD SON WAS THREATENG SELF-HARM BEE HE WAS GETTG BULLIED AT SCHOOL, WHICH I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ... BUT HE ME TO ME WH YOUR VIOS AND SAID, 'MUM, THIS IS WHO I AM, AND THE VIOS MAKE ME PROUD OF WHO I AM'.'" THE EXPERIENCE WAS AN EMOTNAL ONE FOR OLIVER, WHO SAYS WAS TOUGH GROWG UP AND HEARG THGS THAT ARE SAID ABOUT GAY PEOPLE OFTEN HORRIBLE AND NEGATIVE WAYS. HE SAYS THE WAY MANY AL WH AT A YOUNG AGE IS TO REVERT BACK TO YOURSELF.I GET CREDIBLY SAD BEE THERE ARE STILL CHILDREN WHO GO THROUGH THIS THG OF BEG BULLIED BEE OF WHO THEY ARE."I THK A WAY, I GO BACK TO ME AS A 14-YEAR-OLD CHILD, AS WELL. I GET CREDIBLY SAD BEE THERE ARE STILL CHILDREN WHO GO THROUGH THIS THG OF BEG BULLIED BEE OF WHO THEY ARE."YOU TRY TO HI YOURSELF. YOU DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE."BUT NOW, I'VE FOUND MYSELF A POSN WHERE I'M ABLE TO GIVE, NOT EVEN JT YOUNGER PEOPLE, BUT EVEN OLR GAY BLACKFELLAS WHO HAVE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO SEE THEMSELV REPRENTED ON TV.GUY SIMON - A CHANCE AFFAIR SOURCE: SUPPLIEDI'M LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE THAT POSN NOW. I TRY TO BE MDFUL OF THAT WHEN I WRE AND REALISE THE RPONSIBILY AND OBLIGATN THAT NOT JT TO MY BLACK MUNY, NOT JT TO MY GAY MUNY, BUT ALSO TO MY GAY, BLACK MUNY."OF HIS FUTURE CREATIVE ENAVOURS, OLIVER SAYS THAT HE ONLY SIR TO KEEP DOG WHAT HE KNOWS BT AND MAKE SURE THAT HIS WRG IS G OM AN HONT PLACE SO THAT WILL ALWAYS RONATE WH HIS DIENCE."ONE OF THE FIRST THGS I LEARNED ABOUT WRG IS TO ALWAYS WRE WHAT YOU KNOW, BEE THEN, YOU E OM AN THENTIC PLACE."WHEN I WRE AND REALISE THE RPONSIBILY AND OBLIGATN THAT NOT JT TO MY BLACK MUNY, NOT JT TO MY GAY MUNY, BUT ALSO TO MY GAY, BLACK MUNY."I DON'T HAVE A SIRE TO PLAY ANY DIFFERENT NATNALI OR ANY OTHER SEXUALI. IT MIGHT SOUND BORG, AND MIGHT NOT MAKE ME AN ACTOR.BUT THEY'RE THE STORI I'M TERTED TELLG. I KNOW RATHER THAN ME GIVG A PERCEPTN OF SOMETHG, I ULD GIVE AN THENTIC VIEW OF MY LIFE." WHETHER 'S POETRY, MIL EDY OR ROMANCE, OLIVER TENDS TO REMA PLETELY HIMSELF."[MY WORK] ALWAYS CENTR AROUND MY INTY AND WHAT I KNOW AS A BLACK, GAY MAN. WE NEED MORE OF THOSE STORI OUT THE WORLD, SO I'LL ALWAYS BE WRG THOSE UNTIL THE WS E HOME, I THK. UNTIL THE GAY, BLACK WS E HOME." A CHANCE AFFAIR HAS S TELEVISN PREMIERE THIS SUNDAY, 8.30PM ON NITV (CH. 34). CATCH UP WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER BROADST ON SBS ON DEMAND. JO NITV FOR VERAGE OF THE #SYDNEYMARDIGRAS PARA ON SATURDAY, 2 MARCH OM 12.30PM ON FACEBOOK LIVE. SHARE7 M READPUBLISHED 1 MARCH 2019 3:16PMUPDATED 1 MARCH 2019 3:33PMBY EY NILTAGSABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPLSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREPOPULAR PODSTS
IS OLIVER OTTO GAY? REVEALG THE SECRETS OF HIS SEXUAL INTY
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STEVEN OLIVER: 'BLACK GAY PEOPLE SERVE A MORE HONT, GROUND STORY'STEVEN OLIVER'S SERI IS CHANGG ON-SCREEN ROMANCE WH HIS FUNNY AND HEARTWARMG PORTRAYAL OF GAY ABORIGAL LOVE.STEVEN OLIVER A CHANCE AFFAIR SOURCE: NITVIN THE OVERALL SPE OF FICTNAL NTENT, VERY FEW GAY ROMANC ARE CENTRAL STORYL ON-SCREEN. FOR ABORIGAL REPRENTATN, 'S EVEN LS— IF AT ALL.HOWEVER, WRER, ACTOR AND EDIAN STEVEN OLIVER IS CHANGG THAT WH A MORN LOOK ON LOVE AND LIFE HIS WEB SERI, SOON TO BE PREMIERED ON TELEVISN, A CHANCE AFFAIR. WH THE HELP OF SCREEN ATRALIA'S 'BLACKSPACE' IATIVE, OLIVER, A SCENDANT OF KUYALANJI, WAANYI, GANGALIDDA, WOPPABURRA, BUNDJALUNG, BIRIPI MOB, HAS NOT ONLY WRTEN, BUT ALSO STARS A 5-PART SERI THAT TAK A UNIQUE AND SRCELY PORTRAYED LOOK AT GAY ABORIGAL RELATNSHIPS."WHEN I FIRST APPLIED FOR THE IATIVE, [MY NCEPT] WAS G OM A VERY SILLY PLACE, LIKE THE TIDDAS CHARACTERS I HAD DONE FOR BLACK COMEDY," HE TOLD NITV."BUT THEN I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT? BLACK GAY PEOPLE, WE SERVE A MORE HONT, MORE GROUND STORY. SO, I WENT BACK TO MAKE A LOT MORE PERSONAL, A LOT MORE GROUND REALY," HE SAID. WHAT OLIVER HAS GONE ON TO CREATE IS A SENSIVE AND TOUCHG LOOK AT LOVE BETWEEN TWO GAY BLACK MEN, AS WELL AS THE LOVE BETWEEN IENDS AND ULTIMATELY SELF-LOVE. IT'S A STORY ALL IMBUED WH HIS TRAMARK HUMOUR AND WHIP-SMART ONE-LERS.SET A SMALL BAR WHERE AMATR ENTERTAERS PERFORM ORIGAL SONGS, OLIVER TAK ON THE ROLE OF CHANCE, A HOPELS ROMANTIC WHO STGGL WH UNREQUED FEELGS FOR HIS STRAIGHT BT IEND JEFF (PLAYED BY FELLOW IC, BJORN STEWART).ACTOR, GUY SIMON PLAYS LUCKY WHO ON THE SCENE AND TAK THE ROLE OF CHANCE'S LOVE TERT.BLACK GAY PEOPLE, WE SERVE A MORE HONT, MORE GROUND STORY.IN A SUPPORTG ROLE, LOGIE AWARD-WNG ACTRS SHARI SEBBENS GIV A HILAR PERFORMANCE AS AVIANTE, A DIVA WHO LOV THE LIMELIGHT AND A BEYONCé TUNE. OLIVER SAYS HE WAS MORE EXCED FOR THE DIENCE TO SEE SEBBENS E HER EDIC CHOPS THAN HE WAS FOR HIS OWN PART, OFTEN HAVG TO LOOK AWAY WHEN FILMG SO AS NOT TO LGH. "[SHE] DID AN AMAZG JOB," HE REUNTS."IT WAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SI OF HER THAT I DON'T THK PEOPLE HAD GOTTEN TO SEE YET. THE DIRECTOR WAS HOLDG THE SCRIPT UP ONT OF HER FACE, AND SHARI HAD TO SG WH HER EY CLOSED, BEE WE JT ULDN'T LOOK AT EACH OTHER WHEN SHE WAS DOG . IT WAS JT SUCH A BLAST," HE SAID. IN A DIFFERENT CREATIVE TURN, OLIVER HAS ED HIS WRG THE SERI TO PORTRAY A MUCH-NEED REPRENTATN OF ABORIGAL RELATNSHIPS THAT IS SPIRED BY HIS SIRE TO WRE FOR AND ABOUT HIS OWN MUNY. WHEN TALKG ABOUT HIS OWN PATH AND JOURNEY AS A GAY BLACK MAN, HE SAYS THAT WASN'T ALWAYS EASY.GROWG UP TOWNSVILLE, FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND, WASN'T UNTIL MOVG TO PERTH TO STUDY THAT HE STARTED TO EMBRACE HIS SEXUALY. HOWEVER, LIVG FAR OM HOME, HE FOUND HIMSELF G HIS NEW STOMPG GROUND AS AN PE. "I WAS OVER THERE BY MYSELF STUDYG, AND I WAS GOG TO GAY BARS AND STUFF LIKE THAT."[BUT] I WAS LIVG THE TWO LIV, WHERE I HAD TO GO BACK HOME AND I'D BE BACK THE CLOSET. WHEN I'D GO BACK OVER TO PERTH, I'D BE OUT AGA," HE SHARED.A CHANCE AFFAIR SOURCE: SUPPLIEDOLIVER SAYS THAT WAS A QUOTE OM OPENLY-GAY SGER MELISSA ETHERIDGE THAT SPIRED HIM TO TAKE THE STEP TOWARDS TELLG HIS FAY."MY MOTHER AND SISTER WERE G TO PERTH. I PICTURED ME WALKG DOWN THE STREET WH THEM AND THEN NNG TO MY GAY IENDS AND THEM FDG OUT THAT WAY."I'D HEARD MELISSA ETHERIDGE AN TERVIEW SAY, 'IF PEOPLE AREN'T THERE FOR YOU AFTERWARDS, THEY WERE NEVER THERE FOR YOU THE FIRST PLACE.'AND I REALISED THAT MY FAY WOULDN'T ABANDON ME. THAT WAS WHEN I ME OUT. MY FAY HAVE BEEN NOTHG BUT SUPPORTIVE EVER SCE," HE SAID.ASI OM HIS LIVG AND LEARNG OM HIS OWN EXPERIENC HIS YOUNGER YEARS, OLIVER SAYS THAT HE IS ALSO NOW ENURAGED BY FANS WHO SAY THEY N RELATE TO HIS CHARACTERS."I WAS RECENTLY AT THE GARMA FTIVAL AND I HAD A WOMAN E UP TO ME," HE EXPLAED."THE VERY FIRST THG SHE SAID TO ME WAS, 'I'M SURE YOU GET THIS ALL THE TIME...'; I THOUGHT SHE WAS GOG TO ASK ME FOR A SELFIE OR LL ME THE S-WORD THAT I GET SO OFTEN LLED OM BLACK COMEDY."THEN, SHE SAID, 'I JT WANTED TO THANK YOU, MY 14-YEAR-OLD SON WAS THREATENG SELF-HARM BEE HE WAS GETTG BULLIED AT SCHOOL, WHICH I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ... BUT HE ME TO ME WH YOUR VIOS AND SAID, 'MUM, THIS IS WHO I AM, AND THE VIOS MAKE ME PROUD OF WHO I AM'.'" THE EXPERIENCE WAS AN EMOTNAL ONE FOR OLIVER, WHO SAYS WAS TOUGH GROWG UP AND HEARG THGS THAT ARE SAID ABOUT GAY PEOPLE OFTEN HORRIBLE AND NEGATIVE WAYS. HE SAYS THE WAY MANY AL WH AT A YOUNG AGE IS TO REVERT BACK TO YOURSELF.I GET CREDIBLY SAD BEE THERE ARE STILL CHILDREN WHO GO THROUGH THIS THG OF BEG BULLIED BEE OF WHO THEY ARE."I THK A WAY, I GO BACK TO ME AS A 14-YEAR-OLD CHILD, AS WELL. I GET CREDIBLY SAD BEE THERE ARE STILL CHILDREN WHO GO THROUGH THIS THG OF BEG BULLIED BEE OF WHO THEY ARE."YOU TRY TO HI YOURSELF. YOU DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE."BUT NOW, I'VE FOUND MYSELF A POSN WHERE I'M ABLE TO GIVE, NOT EVEN JT YOUNGER PEOPLE, BUT EVEN OLR GAY BLACKFELLAS WHO HAVE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO SEE THEMSELV REPRENTED ON TV.GUY SIMON - A CHANCE AFFAIR SOURCE: SUPPLIEDI'M LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE THAT POSN NOW. I TRY TO BE MDFUL OF THAT WHEN I WRE AND REALISE THE RPONSIBILY AND OBLIGATN THAT NOT JT TO MY BLACK MUNY, NOT JT TO MY GAY MUNY, BUT ALSO TO MY GAY, BLACK MUNY."OF HIS FUTURE CREATIVE ENAVOURS, OLIVER SAYS THAT HE ONLY SIR TO KEEP DOG WHAT HE KNOWS BT AND MAKE SURE THAT HIS WRG IS G OM AN HONT PLACE SO THAT WILL ALWAYS RONATE WH HIS DIENCE."ONE OF THE FIRST THGS I LEARNED ABOUT WRG IS TO ALWAYS WRE WHAT YOU KNOW, BEE THEN, YOU E OM AN THENTIC PLACE."WHEN I WRE AND REALISE THE RPONSIBILY AND OBLIGATN THAT NOT JT TO MY BLACK MUNY, NOT JT TO MY GAY MUNY, BUT ALSO TO MY GAY, BLACK MUNY."I DON'T HAVE A SIRE TO PLAY ANY DIFFERENT NATNALI OR ANY OTHER SEXUALI. IT MIGHT SOUND BORG, AND MIGHT NOT MAKE ME AN ACTOR.BUT THEY'RE THE STORI I'M TERTED TELLG. I KNOW RATHER THAN ME GIVG A PERCEPTN OF SOMETHG, I ULD GIVE AN THENTIC VIEW OF MY LIFE." WHETHER 'S POETRY, MIL EDY OR ROMANCE, OLIVER TENDS TO REMA PLETELY HIMSELF."[MY WORK] ALWAYS CENTR AROUND MY INTY AND WHAT I KNOW AS A BLACK, GAY MAN. WE NEED MORE OF THOSE STORI OUT THE WORLD, SO I'LL ALWAYS BE WRG THOSE UNTIL THE WS E HOME, I THK. UNTIL THE GAY, BLACK WS E HOME." A CHANCE AFFAIR HAS S TELEVISN PREMIERE THIS SUNDAY, 8.30PM ON NITV (CH. 34). CATCH UP WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER BROADST ON SBS ON DEMAND. JO NITV FOR VERAGE OF THE #SYDNEYMARDIGRAS PARA ON SATURDAY, 2 MARCH OM 12.30PM ON FACEBOOK LIVE. SHARE7 M READPUBLISHED 1 MARCH 2019 3:16PMUPDATED 1 MARCH 2019 3:33PMBY EY NILTAGSABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPLSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREPOPULAR PODSTS
The fact that he and his pal Cooper have been seen practicg bra removal on each other and that his visn board has pictur of shirtls mal has led to speculatn that he may have a homosexual orientatn. After Oliver had a nversatn wh a closeted football player on a teen hotle, the mor spreads throughout his school that Oliver is gay.
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