{"id":52476,"date":"2024-06-01T01:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2049250"},"modified":"2024-06-01T02:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T00:05:59","slug":"lost-boys-fairies-writer-on-gay-adoption-drama-love-comes-in-many-shapes","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/lost-boys-fairies-writer-on-gay-adoption-drama-love-comes-in-many-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Boys & Fairies writer on gay adoption drama: \u2018Love comes in many shapes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daf James’s three-part BBC series celebrates the beauty of queer love. <\/p>

By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Saturday, 01 June 2024 at 23:01 PM<\/p>

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\u201cWhat these kids need is love, and love comes in many shapes,\u201d said Daf James, the creator and writer of Lost Boys & Fairies, a BBC drama that tells the fictional story of one gay couple\u2019s journey to adopting their first child \u2013 although the narrative is inspired by his own adoption journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember a friend of my dad\u2019s who came to see the very first play that I wrote, and it was the first gay Welsh-language play by a gay playwright. So I felt very nervous about it at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I remember one of my dad\u2019s friends coming up to me and just saying, \u2018Well, you know, love is love, innit.\u2019 [Laughs<\/em>] And I was like, \u2018Well yeah, it is!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019re getting there, but God, we\u2019re late on in the day because when I was growing up, we weren\u2019t allowed to talk about gay love in school. This is within my lifetime.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re just getting there, and anything we can do in terms of putting that representation out there to show that, actually, it\u2019s true, love comes in many forms. So it\u2019s a celebration of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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