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Jim Burton: I believe this was detailed in the story - Fry is clearly older and their given ages are the present ones, not those at their wedding

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I believe this was detailed in the story - Fry is clearly older and their given ages are the present ones, not those at their wedding

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	[[File:692599381-992269821-5003514-6270791-image-m-65 1539374222921.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|Stephen Fry (67) and his husband Elliott Spencer (37), pictured on their wedding ~~day.~~]][[wikipedia:Stephen_Fry\|'''Stephen Fry''']] (born 24 August 1957), or '''Sir Stephen John Fry''' in full, is an English actor and broadcaster. In December 2006, he was ranked sixth for the BBC's Top Living Icon Award. A year later in May 2007, ''The Independent on Sunday'' Pink List named him the second most influential gay person in Britain. That same year, ''Broadcast magazine'' listed Fry at number four in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, describing him as a polymath and a "national treasure".		[[File:692599381-992269821-5003514-6270791-image-m-65 1539374222921.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|Stephen Fry (67) and his husband Elliott Spencer (37), pictured celebrating their wedding anniversary]][[wikipedia:Stephen_Fry\|'''Stephen Fry''']] (born 24 August 1957), or '''Sir Stephen John Fry''' in full, is an English actor and broadcaster. In December 2006, he was ranked sixth for the BBC's Top Living Icon Award. A year later in May 2007, ''The Independent on Sunday'' Pink List named him the second most influential gay person in Britain. That same year, ''Broadcast magazine'' listed Fry at number four in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, describing him as a polymath and a "national treasure".

	Fry announced his engagement to the English actor and comedian '''Elliott Spencer''' at the age of 57, when his partner Elliot was 27. On January 17th, 2015, at a registry office in Norfolk, the couple with a 30-year-age gap married.<ref>[https://astyledwedding.com/decor/wedding-elliott-spencer Wedding elliott spencer: 59 photos]; Madeline Boardman, [https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/stephen-fry-to-wed-boyfriend-elliott-spencer-30-years-his-junior-201561/ Stephen Fry, 57, Confirms Wedding Plans With Boyfriend Elliott Spencer, 27: Details] (''US Magazine Celebrity News'', January 6, 2015).</ref>		Fry announced his engagement to the English actor and comedian '''Elliott Spencer''' at the age of 57, when his partner Elliot was 27. On January 17th, 2015, at a registry office in Norfolk, the couple with a 30-year-age gap married.<ref>[https://astyledwedding.com/decor/wedding-elliott-spencer Wedding elliott spencer: 59 photos]; Madeline Boardman, [https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/stephen-fry-to-wed-boyfriend-elliott-spencer-30-years-his-junior-201561/ Stephen Fry, 57, Confirms Wedding Plans With Boyfriend Elliott Spencer, 27: Details] (''US Magazine Celebrity News'', January 6, 2015).</ref>

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	[[File:692599381-992269821-5003514-6270791-image-m-65 1539374222921.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|Stephen Fry (67) and his husband Elliott Spencer (37), pictured on their wedding day.]][[wikipedia:Stephen_Fry\|'''Stephen Fry''']] (born 24 August 1957), or '''Sir Stephen John Fry''' in full, is an English actor and broadcaster. In December 2006, he was ranked sixth for the BBC's Top Living Icon Award. A year later in May 2007, ''The Independent on Sunday'' Pink List named him the second most influential gay person in Britain. That same year, ''Broadcast magazine'' listed Fry at number four in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, describing him as a polymath and a "national treasure".		[[File:692599381-992269821-5003514-6270791-image-m-65 1539374222921.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|Stephen Fry (67) and his husband Elliott Spencer (37), pictured on their wedding day.]][[wikipedia:Stephen_Fry\|'''Stephen Fry''']] (born 24 August 1957), or '''Sir Stephen John Fry''' in full, is an English actor and broadcaster. In December 2006, he was ranked sixth for the BBC's Top Living Icon Award. A year later in May 2007, ''The Independent on Sunday'' Pink List named him the second most influential gay person in Britain. That same year, ''Broadcast magazine'' listed Fry at number four in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, describing him as a polymath and a "national treasure".

	Fry announced his engagement to the English actor and comedian '''Elliott Spencer''' at the age of 57, when his partner Elliot was 27. ~~Years later on~~ January 17th, 2015, at a registry office in Norfolk, the couple ~~married when fry was 67 and Elliot 36. The couple have~~ a 30-year-age gap.<ref>[https://astyledwedding.com/decor/wedding-elliott-spencer Wedding elliott spencer: 59 photos]; Madeline Boardman, [https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/stephen-fry-to-wed-boyfriend-elliott-spencer-30-years-his-junior-201561/ Stephen Fry, 57, Confirms Wedding Plans With Boyfriend Elliott Spencer, 27: Details] (''US Magazine Celebrity News'', January 6, 2015).</ref>		Fry announced his engagement to the English actor and comedian '''Elliott Spencer''' at the age of 57, when his partner Elliot was 27. On January 17th, 2015, at a registry office in Norfolk, the couple with a 30-year-age gap married.<ref>[https://astyledwedding.com/decor/wedding-elliott-spencer Wedding elliott spencer: 59 photos]; Madeline Boardman, [https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/stephen-fry-to-wed-boyfriend-elliott-spencer-30-years-his-junior-201561/ Stephen Fry, 57, Confirms Wedding Plans With Boyfriend Elliott Spencer, 27: Details] (''US Magazine Celebrity News'', January 6, 2015).</ref>

	Among many other acting credits, Fry was the original host of the comedy panel show ''QI'' (2003–2016), for which he was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards. In 2006, the British public ranked Fry number 9 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.		Among many other acting credits, Fry was the original host of the comedy panel show ''QI'' (2003–2016), for which he was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards. In 2006, the British public ranked Fry number 9 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.

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	Fry appears to have a sustained interest in pre-1970s homosexual culture, having authored 4 books about Ancient Greece which each offer a literary retelling of popular ancient myths, including [[wikipedia:~~ythos_~~(book)\|''Mythos'']] (2017), ''Heroes'' (2018), ''Troy'' (2020), and ''Odyssey'' (2024).		Fry appears to have a sustained interest in pre-1970s homosexual culture, having authored 4 books about Ancient Greece which each offer a literary retelling of popular ancient myths, including [[wikipedia:Mythos_(book)\|''Mythos'']] (2017), ''Heroes'' (2018), ''Troy'' (2020), and ''Odyssey'' (2024).

	==Stephen Fry and Age-Gap Sex==		==Stephen Fry and Age-Gap Sex==

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	''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.''		''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.''

	''I knew the disgrace and humiliation of gay people. [[Oscar Wilde]] had taught me that it would be a life of mockery, exile, and secrecy. And then there were those writers, like [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~E._M._Forster EM Forster] or [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~W._Somerset_Maugham Somerset Maugham], who held their heads up high and made me feel that it wasn’t all slime and grim mackintosh people in a terrible world of darkness,” Fry continued.''<ref>Michele Theil, [https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/21/stephen-fry-says-being-gay-felt-like-there-was-a-horror-inside-him/ Stephen Fry says being gay felt like there was ‘a horror inside him’], ''Pink News'' (Sep 21 2024).</ref>		''I knew the disgrace and humiliation of gay people. [[Oscar Wilde]] had taught me that it would be a life of mockery, exile, and secrecy. And then there were those writers, like [[wikipedia:E._M._Forster\|EM Forster]] or [[wikipedia:W._Somerset_Maugham\|Somerset Maugham]], who held their heads up high and made me feel that it wasn’t all slime and grim mackintosh people in a terrible world of darkness,” Fry continued.''<ref>Michele Theil, [https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/21/stephen-fry-says-being-gay-felt-like-there-was-a-horror-inside-him/ Stephen Fry says being gay felt like there was ‘a horror inside him’], ''Pink News'' (Sep 21 2024).</ref>
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	Fry appears to have a sustained interest in pre-1970s homosexual culture, having authored 4 books about Ancient Greece which each offer a literary retelling of popular ancient myths, including [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythos_~~(book) ''Mythos''] (2017), ''Heroes'' (2018), ''Troy'' (2020), and ''Odyssey'' (2024).		Fry appears to have a sustained interest in pre-1970s homosexual culture, having authored 4 books about Ancient Greece which each offer a literary retelling of popular ancient myths, including [[wikipedia:ythos_(book)\|''Mythos'']] (2017), ''Heroes'' (2018), ''Troy'' (2020), and ''Odyssey'' (2024).

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	Rubin replied "I love that!", before ending the show. After a media frenzy ensued, Fry publicly "apologized unreservedly" for his comments.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-apologises-unreservedly-for-claiming-sex-abuse-survivors-should-grow-up-and-stop-pitying-themselves-a6983651.html Stephen Fry Apologizes Unreservedly] (''The Independent'', 2016).</ref>		Rubin replied "I love that!", before ending the show. After a media frenzy ensued, Fry publicly "apologized unreservedly" for his comments.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-apologises-unreservedly-for-claiming-sex-abuse-survivors-should-grow-up-and-stop-pitying-themselves-a6983651.html Stephen Fry Apologizes Unreservedly] (''The Independent'', 2016).</ref>
	[[File:955911214-285288845-99014903-14777809-image-a-24 1748990929569.jpg\|thumb\|Fry and Elliot, happily married.]]		[[File:955911214-285288845-99014903-14777809-image-a-24 1748990929569.jpg\|thumb\|Fry and Elliot, happily married.]]
	From [[Oscar Wilde]] to other 'classic' writers in the gay canon, it is clear that many of Fry's stated inspirational figures are those who also happened to write sympathetically on - and in some cases participated in - [[pederasty]]. This is unsurprising since, as historians such as [[Kadji Amin]] and [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] have argued, [[pederasty]] was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the 1950s. Fry's own intimate knowledge of classic literature on these themes can be gleamed from an anecdote involving [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s famous novel [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Lolita ''Lolita''], appearing in the acknowledgements section of historian Nicholas Basannavar's 2019 PhD thesis. While Basannavar's specious arguments about [[PIE]] have received critique from the organization's most well-known Chairperson [[Tom O'Carroll]],<ref>See, [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991. [Thesis<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref><ref>For O'Carroll's response, see [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10135-6 Commentary on the Book Entitled Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-83147-9. Sexuality & Culture 28, 918–928]. (Journal link).</ref><ref>Alternate source:[https://rdcu.be/dmgYh Commentary on the Book Entitled Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar.]</ref> on ''Lolita'' and Stephen Fry Basannavar wrote that,		From [[Oscar Wilde]] to other 'classic' writers in the gay canon, it is clear that many of Fry's stated inspirational figures are those who also happened to write sympathetically on - and in some cases participated in - [[pederasty]]. This is unsurprising since, as historians such as [[Kadji Amin]] and [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] have argued, [[pederasty]] was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the 1950s. Fry's own intimate knowledge of classic literature on these themes can be gleamed from an anecdote involving [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s famous novel [[wikipedia:Lolita\|''Lolita'']], appearing in the acknowledgements section of historian Nicholas Basannavar's 2019 PhD thesis. While Basannavar's specious arguments about [[PIE]] have received critique from the organization's most well-known Chairperson [[Tom O'Carroll]],<ref>See, [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991. [Thesis<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref><ref>For O'Carroll's response, see [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10135-6 Commentary on the Book Entitled Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-83147-9. Sexuality & Culture 28, 918–928]. (Journal link).</ref><ref>Alternate source:[https://rdcu.be/dmgYh Commentary on the Book Entitled Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar.]</ref> on ''Lolita'' and Stephen Fry Basannavar wrote that,
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	''A snatched ten minute chat with Stephen Fry (during which we recited the opening lines of Lolita to each other) gave the project a strange but compelling impetus at a key moment.'' (p. 4).		''A snatched ten minute chat with Stephen Fry (during which we recited the opening lines of Lolita to each other) gave the project a strange but compelling impetus at a key moment.'' (p. 4).

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	''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.''		''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.''

	''I knew the disgrace and humiliation of gay people. [[Oscar Wilde]] had taught me that it would be a life of mockery, exile, and secrecy. And then there were those writers, like [[EM Forster]] or [[Somerset Maugham]], who held their heads up high and made me feel that it wasn’t all slime and grim mackintosh people in a terrible world of darkness,” Fry continued.''<ref>Michele Theil, [https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/21/stephen-fry-says-being-gay-felt-like-there-was-a-horror-inside-him/ Stephen Fry says being gay felt like there was ‘a horror inside him’], ''Pink News'' (Sep 21 2024).</ref>		''I knew the disgrace and humiliation of gay people. [[Oscar Wilde]] had taught me that it would be a life of mockery, exile, and secrecy. And then there were those writers, like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster EM Forster] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham Somerset Maugham], who held their heads up high and made me feel that it wasn’t all slime and grim mackintosh people in a terrible world of darkness,” Fry continued.''<ref>Michele Theil, [https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/21/stephen-fry-says-being-gay-felt-like-there-was-a-horror-inside-him/ Stephen Fry says being gay felt like there was ‘a horror inside him’], ''Pink News'' (Sep 21 2024).</ref>
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	Rubin replied "I love that!", before ending the show. After a media frenzy ensued, Fry publicly "apologized unreservedly" for his comments.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-apologises-unreservedly-for-claiming-sex-abuse-survivors-should-grow-up-and-stop-pitying-themselves-a6983651.html Stephen Fry Apologizes Unreservedly] (''The Independent'', 2016).</ref>		Rubin replied "I love that!", before ending the show. After a media frenzy ensued, Fry publicly "apologized unreservedly" for his comments.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-apologises-unreservedly-for-claiming-sex-abuse-survivors-should-grow-up-and-stop-pitying-themselves-a6983651.html Stephen Fry Apologizes Unreservedly] (''The Independent'', 2016).</ref>
			[[File:955911214-285288845-99014903-14777809-image-a-24 1748990929569.jpg\|thumb\|Fry and Elliot, happily married.]]
	From [[Oscar Wilde]] to other 'classic' writers in the gay canon, it is clear that many of Fry's stated inspirational figures are those who also happened to write sympathetically on - and in some cases participated in - [[pederasty]]. This is unsurprising since, as historians such as [[Kadji Amin]] and [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] have argued, [[pederasty]] was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the 1950s. Fry's own intimate knowledge of classic literature on these themes can be gleamed from an anecdote involving [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s famous novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita ''Lolita''], appearing in the acknowledgements section of historian Nicholas Basannavar's 2019 PhD thesis. While Basannavar's specious arguments about [[PIE]] have received critique from the organization's most well-known Chairperson [[Tom O'Carroll]],<ref>See, [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991. [Thesis<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref><ref>For O'Carroll's response, see [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10135-6 Commentary on the Book Entitled Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-83147-9. Sexuality & Culture 28, 918–928]. (Journal link).</ref><ref>Alternate source:[https://rdcu.be/dmgYh Commentary on the Book Entitled Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar.]</ref> on ''Lolita'' and Stephen Fry Basannavar wrote that,		From [[Oscar Wilde]] to other 'classic' writers in the gay canon, it is clear that many of Fry's stated inspirational figures are those who also happened to write sympathetically on - and in some cases participated in - [[pederasty]]. This is unsurprising since, as historians such as [[Kadji Amin]] and [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] have argued, [[pederasty]] was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the 1950s. Fry's own intimate knowledge of classic literature on these themes can be gleamed from an anecdote involving [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s famous novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita ''Lolita''], appearing in the acknowledgements section of historian Nicholas Basannavar's 2019 PhD thesis. While Basannavar's specious arguments about [[PIE]] have received critique from the organization's most well-known Chairperson [[Tom O'Carroll]],<ref>See, [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991. [Thesis<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref><ref>For O'Carroll's response, see [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10135-6 Commentary on the Book Entitled Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-83147-9. Sexuality & Culture 28, 918–928]. (Journal link).</ref><ref>Alternate source:[https://rdcu.be/dmgYh Commentary on the Book Entitled Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar.]</ref> on ''Lolita'' and Stephen Fry Basannavar wrote that,
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	The BBC Trust described the event as "unfortunate and regrettable," with the editorial standards committee ultimately ruling that the programme was not in breach of the corporation's editorial guidelines, adding: "[The ESC] considered this was at the margins of acceptability given the heightened sensitivities surrounding the Jimmy Savile case." The ESC said that the decision to air the limerick was "finely balanced", but concluded that most viewers would not consider the the content strong enough to link it to Newsnight's Savile report.<ref>Josh Halliday, [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/29/stephen-fry-paedophilia-limerick-apology-bbc Stephen Fry paedophilia limerick on QI 'unfortunate and regrettable' - BBC] (''Guardian'', Thu 29 Aug 2013).</ref>		The BBC Trust described the event as "unfortunate and regrettable," with the editorial standards committee ultimately ruling that the programme was not in breach of the corporation's editorial guidelines, adding: "[The ESC] considered this was at the margins of acceptability given the heightened sensitivities surrounding the Jimmy Savile case." The ESC said that the decision to air the limerick was "finely balanced", but concluded that most viewers would not consider the the content strong enough to link it to Newsnight's Savile report.<ref>Josh Halliday, [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/29/stephen-fry-paedophilia-limerick-apology-bbc Stephen Fry paedophilia limerick on QI 'unfortunate and regrettable' - BBC] (''Guardian'', Thu 29 Aug 2013).</ref>
			[[File:249849940-684129330-96439199-14777809-It comes aft their -a-14 1748990318147.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|Stephen Fry and husband Elliot, pictured wearing the green carnation flower, famously worn by [[Oscar Wilde]] and widely known as a symbol of hidden queer identity in Victorian culture.]]
	The next year, in July of 2014, Fry faced backlash in news media after criticizing Operation Yewtree at a Labour Party conference. Reportedly, he urged the crowd to remember some of "the essential values which the Labour Party stands for," including that "people are innocent until proven guilty." He pointed out that fewer than half of those accused at the time had been found guilty, and called for tougher laws to prevent false allegations. After citing Magna Carta, the 799-year-old foundation of British constitutional rights, Fry said that "fewer than half" of the people held under Yewtree had been found guilty – before identifying Sir Keir Starmer in the audience for criticism.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2690864/YOU-ARE-WRONG-MR-FRY-Comedian-condemned-campaigners-rant-attacking-sex-abuse-inquiry.html Stephen Fry faces a furious backlash after attacking Operation Yewtree] (''Daily Mail'', 2014).</ref> From the vantage point of 2025, singling out Kier Starmer was arguably correct. He would later become the Prime Minister of the UK in 2024, becoming infamous and widely reviled for overseeing the passage of the "Online Safety Act" (OSA), one of the most sweeping and authoritarian pieces of legislation ever passed in world history.		The next year, in July of 2014, Fry faced backlash in news media after criticizing Operation Yewtree at a Labour Party conference. Reportedly, he urged the crowd to remember some of "the essential values which the Labour Party stands for," including that "people are innocent until proven guilty." He pointed out that fewer than half of those accused at the time had been found guilty, and called for tougher laws to prevent false allegations. After citing Magna Carta, the 799-year-old foundation of British constitutional rights, Fry said that "fewer than half" of the people held under Yewtree had been found guilty – before identifying Sir Keir Starmer in the audience for criticism.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2690864/YOU-ARE-WRONG-MR-FRY-Comedian-condemned-campaigners-rant-attacking-sex-abuse-inquiry.html Stephen Fry faces a furious backlash after attacking Operation Yewtree] (''Daily Mail'', 2014).</ref> From the vantage point of 2025, singling out Kier Starmer was arguably correct. He would later become the Prime Minister of the UK in 2024, becoming infamous and widely reviled for overseeing the passage of the "Online Safety Act" (OSA), one of the most sweeping and authoritarian pieces of legislation ever passed in world history.

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	''What Stephen Fry pulls off so brilliantly is to cover this topic in a way which is not in any way shocking," said artistic director Adam Barnard. "People have said things like, 'You shouldn't have paedophilia on stage because it encourages people to do that.' Well, people don't say, 'You mustn't have Hamlet on stage because it encourages people to commit murder.'''<ref>James Morrison Arts, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/fry-under-fire-over-paedophilia-play-186150.html Fry under fire over paedophilia play] (''The Independent'', Sunday 28 July 2002).</ref>		''What Stephen Fry pulls off so brilliantly is to cover this topic in a way which is not in any way shocking," said artistic director Adam Barnard. "People have said things like, 'You shouldn't have paedophilia on stage because it encourages people to do that.' Well, people don't say, 'You mustn't have Hamlet on stage because it encourages people to commit murder.'''<ref>James Morrison Arts, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/fry-under-fire-over-paedophilia-play-186150.html Fry under fire over paedophilia play] (''The Independent'', Sunday 28 July 2002).</ref>
	</blockquote>		</blockquote> [[File:970833590-137932946-partypeople2.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|left\|Fry and husband Elliot.]]
	In his autobiography ''Moab is My Washpot'' (1997), Fry wrote openly about his own sexual feelings and experiences in childhood. As a teenager, Fry attended the boys' boarding school of Uppingham in Rutland. He described both the lust for pretty junior boys commonly expressed by their seniors, and his own seduction and defloration by an older prefect during his first year there, at age 13.<ref name="greek">[https://www.greek-love.com/modern-europe/great-britain/boys-20th-century-boarding-school-experiences/stephen-fry-boyhood-pederasty Stephen Fry on his Boyhood], Greek Love website.</ref> At Uppingham, he explained:		In his autobiography ''Moab is My Washpot'' (1997), Fry wrote openly about his own sexual feelings and experiences in childhood. As a teenager, Fry attended the boys' boarding school of Uppingham in Rutland. He described both the lust for pretty junior boys commonly expressed by their seniors, and his own seduction and defloration by an older prefect during his first year there, at age 13.<ref name="greek">[https://www.greek-love.com/modern-europe/great-britain/boys-20th-century-boarding-school-experiences/stephen-fry-boyhood-pederasty Stephen Fry on his Boyhood], Greek Love website.</ref> At Uppingham, he explained:

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	''You could openly admire a pretty boy, and all the middle and senior boys did. It was a sign of manliness indeed to do so.''		''You could openly admire a pretty boy, and all the middle and senior boys did. It was a sign of manliness indeed to do so.''

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	==Stephen Fry and Age-Gap Sex==		==Stephen Fry and Age-Gap Sex==
	[[File:968510737-121055183-f4c00283abd4-stephen-fry-bbc.jpg~~\|200px~~\|thumb\|Stephen Fry.]]		[[File:968510737-121055183-f4c00283abd4-stephen-fry-bbc.jpg\|thumb\|Stephen Fry.]]
	Fry has spoken out controversially at an Oxford Union event, criticizing popular attitudes on [[Age of Consent\|age of consent]] laws and age-gap sex.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/e4qZ8ACuKTtqMHAzMefZXS Oxford Union, via FSTube]</ref>		Fry has spoken out controversially at an Oxford Union event, criticizing popular attitudes on [[Age of Consent\|age of consent]] laws and age-gap sex.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/e4qZ8ACuKTtqMHAzMefZXS Oxford Union, via FSTube]</ref>

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	==Stephen Fry and Age-Gap Sex==		==Stephen Fry and Age-Gap Sex==
			[[File:968510737-121055183-f4c00283abd4-stephen-fry-bbc.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|Stephen Fry.]]
	Fry has spoken out controversially at an Oxford Union event, criticizing popular attitudes on [[Age of Consent\|age of consent]] laws and age-gap sex.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/e4qZ8ACuKTtqMHAzMefZXS Oxford Union, via FSTube]</ref>		Fry has spoken out controversially at an Oxford Union event, criticizing popular attitudes on [[Age of Consent\|age of consent]] laws and age-gap sex.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/e4qZ8ACuKTtqMHAzMefZXS Oxford Union, via FSTube]</ref>