While there’s been a diversifying in the sorts of love stories that make their way onto screen (including the recent release of gay rom-com Fire Island), conversations about who should be cast in the lead roles in a film like this are still ongoing and nuanced. Forced to repress his true feelings, he decides to marry Marion, and as tensions rise between the married couple, Patrick’s life ends up in shambles. He begins dating a schoolteacher named Marion, but also embarks on a love affair in secret with a museum curator named Patrick Hazelwood. The story, set in Brighton in 1957, follows a policeman named Tom Burgess who is gay, but living in a society where it’s illegal to be so. “It was kind of like my coming-out book,” he says. While in Leeds, someone gave him a copy of My Policeman, a 2012 romance novel by Bethan Roberts. I was thinking about regrets and where I would be in 10, 20, 30 years.” “I was very much struggling with who I was. The only person I knew about was Justin Fashanu, and he killed himself,” Rogers says now, reflecting back on that time. “My experience in sports was that you can’t be gay. But he was keeping his personal life-and the fact that he was gay-a secret. Robbie Rogers had finally reached his boyhood dream of playing professional soccer, first as a part of Columbus Crew in Ohio and then later as a member of the English soccer team Leeds United.
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